A dominant narrative among men’s rights activists (MRAs) is that rape culture does not exist. Despite statistical evidence that men are more likely to be sexually assaulted than wrongfully accused of assault, false rape allegations are the most frequently discussed topic on MRA forums and websites. In this study, we analyzed comments about false rape allegations posted to r/MensRights, a popular MRA forum. Just as the larger MRA movement emerged as a reactionary counterbalance to a feminist movement that MRAs believe has purportedly achieved equality, we found that MRAs construct a culture of false rape allegations to counterbalance a purportedly non-existent rape culture. Using a grounded theory approach to examine the narratives deployed by MRAs, we discovered that these men construct what we call a “compensatory culture of injury.” We found that MRAs are driven by “aspirational oppression,” which we theorize as a sense of grievance surrounding a group’s diminishing privilege and desire to achieve the guise of subjugation that warrants reparations to restore the status quo in the ostensible pursuit of fairness and equality. This co-optation of victimhood may be challenged by structural conversations about gender as well as the explicit identification of the misogynistic nature of MRA narratives.

男权活动家 （MRA） 的主流叙事是强奸文化不存在。尽管统计证据表明男性遭受性侵犯的可能性大于被错误指控侵犯的可能性，但虚假的强奸指控是 MRA 论坛和网站上最常讨论的话题。在这项研究中，我们分析了发布到 r/MensRights（一个受欢迎的 MRA 论坛）上的关于虚假强奸指控的评论。正如更大的 MRA 运动作为对 MRA 认为据称已经实现平等的女权主义运动的反动制衡而出现一样，我们发现 MRA 构建了一种虚假强奸指控的文化，以抵消据称不存在的强奸文化。使用扎根理论方法来研究 MRA 部署的叙述，我们发现这些人构建了我们所谓的“补偿性伤害文化”。我们发现 MRA 是由“抱负压迫”驱动的，我们将其理论化为一种不满感，围绕着一个群体不断减少的特权和实现征服的幌子的愿望，这种幌子需要赔偿以恢复表面上追求公平和平等的现状。这种对受害者身份的拉拢可能会受到关于性别的结构性对话以及对 MRA 叙事中厌女本质的明确识别的挑战。