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Participants vary in terms of religion, politics and sexuality with a number of women also involved. The movement is predominantly western, although since the early 1990s men's movements have been growing in non-western countries; an example is India , where dramatic rises in false accusations of dowry harassment as cited by the Karnataka judiciary in 2003 "In as many as 44% of these cases prosecution is thoroughly unjustified"Crl. A. no. 589 of 2003 Decided on 4-9-2003 reported in 2000(1) Karnataka Law Online starting on Page no 560, Bride-burning , and other issues have resulted in large scale false imprisonment of innocent men and their parents, which have in turn provided impetus to a growing men's rights movement. Attitudes vary on issues such as gender roles, Human Relationships , Sexuality (including Gay Rights ), Reproduction (including Birth Control and particularly the Abortion Debate ), Work , Violence (its causes and resolution) and aspects of Women's Rights . According to one view, the development of the men's movement in the United States can be divided into two eras with distinctly different focuses. According to this view, the men's movement was sympathetic to Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, but that the movement was changed by detractors, who saw this approach as emasculating and Misandrist . According to this view, the support of gender equity feminism within the men's movement was generally not accepted by men, though it gained considerable support from women in the men's movement, particularly by single parents raising boys. According to this view, members of the men's movement became more "pro-male" starting in the early 1990s and rejected gender equity feminism, which was seen as Politically Correct and anti-male (or misandrist). Those who hold this view refer to the perceived rejection of gender equity feminism within the men's movement as the "feminist backlash" in response to the perceived excesses of the Feminist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. According to this view, supporters of the masculist movement generally reject many, if not most, of the philosophical points of the previous men's movement that had supported gender equity. |
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