Men are 2-3x as likely to cheat, 2-3x as likely to develop an addiction, 5x as likely to abandon their kids and make up over 90% of aggressors in marital homicide Conservatives are so pro-male leadership that men can cheat on their wives, beat them, get addicted to porn, drain the family financially with an alcohol addiction, ditch your wife and kids for a new girlfriend, but if the woman files the paperwork, the problem is no fault divorce, guys! Why didn't she submit to the mortgage foreclosure?? Why didn't she submit to his addiction?? What kind of world are we living in where you have to pay child support for the kids you abandoned?? Men are so oppressed! We need start intellectually shaming conservatives who quote this "70%" number It's the wage gap of the right; one isolated statistic that provides zero context on how behavior affects outcomes Men make more money because they make different career choices - conservatives have no issue pointing that out They have no problem pointing out behavior and outcomes when it comes to black men and crime/incarceration stats But divorced men? They're all Aladdin Divorced men are the dindus of the right It needs to really be emphasized just how profoundly, deeply, ass-backwards brain-dead you actually have to be to look at a legal filing and think: "Yup, the person who printed out the PDF is clearly the sole villain here" It requires an aggressively stupid, willfully dishonest suspension of basic human logic to pretend that signing a court document somehow absolves the other person of their behavior It’s like claiming the guy holding the empty gas can and blowtorch is being railroaded by the system when it was his evil wife who should be charged with arson because she pulled the fire alarm It’s like calling the victim of a home invasion the real aggressor because they were the one who dialed 911 The problem with home invasions and arson would be solved if we just stopped allowing people to make no fault calls to 911. Duh! The exact same political crowd that preaches "personal responsibility" and insists that outcomes are driven entirely by choices suddenly suffers collective amnesia when a marriage falls apart When it comes to economics or crime, they will gladly lecture everyone on cause and effect But the second a woman files for divorce, all logic evaporates, and suddenly the legal system is a grand conspiracy against poor, innocent men who dindu nuffin' To push this narrative, you have to operate on the level of a toddler who thinks that closing their eyes makes the mess in their room disappear Just like how the left wants to treat arrests like cops cuff black people for no reason, the right treats divorce like a spontaneous act of malice that happens in a vacuum, as if marriages exist in perfect harmony right up until the exact second a process server shows up at the door It is a completely bad-faith argument designed to shield destructive behavior from accountability while blaming the person who finally had the self-respect to put an end to it