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Showdown: #MenCallMeThings versus The Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics

The most common “critique” of the #mencallmethings hashtag  that blew up on Twitter last week was that the women posting examples of misogynistic shit they got called online were making a big deal out of nothing. As the always-charming Ferdinand Bardamu so memorably put it:

It’s funny, then, that when MRAs find themselves described with less-than-flattering language they have a strange tendency to act like they’ve suddenly been struck with a case of the vapors. Witness the reaction of MRAs when someone calls them the “c-word.” No, not “cunt” – “creep.” As one outraged Men’s Rights Redditor recently put it, in a comment with 30+ net upvotes:

Creep shaming is probably one of the most insidious and anti-equality things you can do. The ability to label men as “creepy” is just one privilege that women enjoy, and a constant source of fear of ostracizing that all men must fear in our society.

When MRAs feel themselves being oppressed by such clearly man-hating language, they often refer to something called the Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics, which, well, catalogues their language grievances in detail. According to the author of the  Catalogue,

Shaming tactics are emotional devices meant to play on a man’s insecurities and shut down debate.  They are meant to elicit sympathy for women and to demonize men who ask hard questions.  Most, if not all, shaming tactics are basically ad homimem attacks.

Such shaming tactics, the author of the Catalogue says, with no evident awareness of the irony, are often used by “histrionic …  female detractors who refuse to argue their points with logic” and the male “gynocentrists” who ally with them.

Here are some of the awful “shaming” remarks that get directed at MRAs, according to the Catalogue of Shaming Tactics:

 “Stop whining!”

 “Suck it up like a man!”

“You need to get over your anger at women.”

“You’re afraid of a strong woman!”

“You are so immature!”

“You are just bitter because you can’t get laid.”

“Are you gay?”

 “That’s a sexist stereotype!”

 “You need therapy.”

“You make me feel afraid.”

 “Weirdo!”

 “Loser!”

“You are so materialistic.”

 “No woman will marry you with that attitude.”

“You are insensitive to the plight of women.”

Did someone just use the word "creep?"

Is that last one even an insult? It’s a fairly accurate description of a lot of MRAs, who take a certain pride in being “insensitive to the plight of women.”

So now that we’ve seen the horrible abuse that MRAs have to put up with on a daily basis, let’s take a quick look at some of the things that women and feminists regularly get from their detractors, as posted to the #mencallmethings hashtag and sent to Sady Doyle, who originated the hashtag. (These are all taken from a great post she did in the aftermath of #mencallmethings’ big blowup.) I think you will find the comparison instructive.  Let’s start with the more straightforward slurs. (TRIGGER WARNING for, well, just about everything in the quotes that follow.)

Slut, cunt, bitch, whore, ugly, dyke, lesbo, unfuckable, crazy, delusional, liar, hysterical, autistic bitch child, feminazi,  ballbuster, humorless, heartless whore, man hater, misandrist, stupid little girl, shrieky hysterical moron, airhead, spoiled little princess, stupid bitch, stupid fucking cunt, stupid feminazi cunt, an ugly bitter little woman, cumm guzzling closet lesbian, a pseudo-intellectual Insane Oversensitive Humourless Female supremacist.

Now let’s move on to complete sentences:

 “You’re an ugly fucking cunt.”

“That sort of smirk is why God invented anal sex.”  

“you’re so ugly you look like you have downs syndrome, you’d be thankful to be raped.”

“hope you catch a sexually transmitted disease or vagina cancer, cuntwit.”

”Stick a dildo up your dry vagina.”

“the only time your mouth should be open is when i’m putting my d–k in it”

“Your just a gay cunt who deserves to be punished.”

“A firm backhand to her whore face would provide her with a much needed attitude adjustment.”  

“Fuck you bitch….ya need to get beat like ur pops use to do to u.”

“I hope you never have children, your daughters would be such sluts and end up murdered in a gutter by someone like me.”

 You’re “not worth the effort to murder.”  

“[The] only tragedy is that a bullet didn’t rip through ur brainstem after u were used 4 ur 1 & only purpose in this world.”

“what a long winded bitch. You certainly do need to be gagged.”

“You’re an annoying bitch with no friends.I’d love to run you over with my truck.”

“you stupid bitch, I should fuck the crazy right out of you.”

”i surely hope that one day you get raped.”

“[You] can’t be a female scientist, that phrase is an oxymoron,”

“it’s painfully obvious you’re a woman, get off the internet.”

“I will fuck your ass to death you filthy fucking whore. Your only worth on this planet is as a warm hole.”

“Do you need to file a hurt feelings report?”

As I noted before, despite my general unpopularity in the MRA world, I tend to get fewer of these things than, for example, most feminist bloggers with a similar degree of internet notoriety. But I get them. Here, for example, is the latest comment I’ve gotten from the guy who calls himself Nugganu, a sort of follow-up to a previous comment I quoted earlier in which he imagined me raped by ten black men:

He certainly does have a vivid imagination.

But, yeah, somehow it’s a little hard for me to feel a ton of sympathy for MRAs who so regularly work themselves into a lather over “shaming language” like “creep” and “loser” and “you are insensitive to the plight of women.”

 

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Posted on November 13, 2011, in antifeminism, creepy, douchebaggery, evil women, homophobia, hypocrisy, men who should not ever be with women ever, misandry, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, racism, rape, rapey, reactionary bullshit, reddit, shaming tactics, sluts, threats. Bookmark the permalink. 462 Comments.

  1. @ Xanthe: part of why I lost respect for Dawkins in that situation was when he pulled that “my delicate eyes had to read the word ‘fuck’ one too many times and my brain turned off” nonsense.

  2. And acting like an asshole does nothing to prove you aren’t capable of positive emotions.

    Everyone has their asshole moments now and then. I have hope for a lot of the MRA’s. I view the MRM as a type of cult that can suck men (and some women) in during times of stress. I think those are the ones that can be reasoned with and helped. The ones that are the most radical and angry, though, are on their own until they can calm down, as far as I’m concerned.

    I keep feeling sorry for the MRA’s, even when they’re hurling out insults and abuse to other people. I do not, however, think anyone in the real world owes them any attention or affection, though, just because they’re miserable. Nobody is entitled to have other people to try to make zim happy, especially when zie acts abusive.

  3. You can decide whether someone’s a vampire or not (although I would suggest you disqualify Edward Cullen).

    Oh, Edward Cullen’s a vampire, much as I’d like say otherwise. He’s just a chump.

  4. You know what? I’m not going to defend “you probably can’t get laid” or “man up” or “be a real man” or “are you gay or something?” because I don’t say that shit because it IS crappy and shaming and buying into an idea of masculinity and for the umpteen gajillionth time, sexism hurts men, too.

    However, when someone releases a giant fart of rapey threatening woman-hate and then complains that women don’t like them (or is it just American women, or Western women?), it is not evil or sexist to say “Gee, I wonder why you are having a hard time connecting with women.” That doesn’t mean “You are bad because you are a man,” it means “Whoa, you’re not doing a good job hiding that anger, and people are probably picking up on that.”

    And “You make me feel afraid” (when doing stuff like telling me about how a post of mine makes you reach for “your proverbial gun”) seems like a pretty apt way to describe it.

  5. @Dracula: No. Vampires don’t sparkle.

  6. Maybe this is a pattern for me, but I’m more inclined to say “Your vampires are shit.” than “Your vampires aren’t vampires.”

  7. a bit off topic, but you know that guy who is suing the London School of Economics gender studies course for discrimination? do you think he will win? if he does society will have reached a new low. I mean, never mind that history, literature and so many other courses are dominated by books, theories and studies written by men, and no one complains. Its just natural to learn things from men. And I’m not saying there is anything wrong with it either. But a course that talks about women’s experiences or has books written by a woman’s POV for once…that’s discrimination! Do women not deserve to have a voice? Do MRAs not realize that throughout history many women did not have a voice until women’s liberation started to make it more common? I hope the courts will realize this, sadly dumber cases have been won before.

    I notice MRAs are all about silencing. Silencing by suing. Silencing by threats. Silencing by intimidation. It is very creepy and not at all about finding common ground.

  8. Dracula: And your strategy can be extended to terrible people, too!

  9. Quackers: Don’t forget one of their favorites, “Silence by Shaming”

  10. Why on earth would someone use shaming language like “You make me feel afraid” when conversing with a person who had just threatened to “fuck your ass to death you filthy fucking whore”? Why would a woman ever be afraid of such a clearly rational and peaceful man? It’s one of life’s great mysteries, like magnets.Being afraid of people who threaten to rape and kill you – how does it work?

    It is odd to me how consistent the tendency towards lurid and violent sexual fantasies is with MRAs. It’s not a sex thing in any sort of normal kink way, because they still do it with men even if they’re straight (though not nearly as often). I can’t help wondering if at some point something went very wrong with the sexual development of MRAs, and that’s the source of all their rage in some way.

  11. Cassandra: something to do with punishing someone with their penis. I mean, what else would you use your penis for?

  12. Yep Pecunium. Because trying to silence feminists by calling them hairy ugly dyke misandrists isn’t shaming at all!

    By that guy’s logic I can spend 6 weeks in a history course then sue for discrimination because there are no books written by women, they don’t talk about women, they don’t include women’s movements (I’d have to take a special course to learn about that unimportant part of history!)

    MRAs want an equal playing field, but it’s kinda hard to get to that when the playing field wasn’t equal to begin with. Also how come there was no MRA movement the same time the feminist movement became big? that suggests to me that maybe men were, I dunno, happy or at least indifferent to their roles as men? Just a thought. It suggests that maybe they had it better, being able to go to work and participate in public life more than women did. Or wouldn’t they have demanded liberation from that too?

    By the way, internet points for CassandraSays for referencing magnets

  13. On the derail about the term “less than human” – I don’t think that’s OK. If you fling insults of that specific kind you’re opening the door to having those kinds of insults flung around at more vulnerable people too. Let’s not go there.

    On the question of being too nice for our own good, though – there’s no need for that. Maybe it’s just because I’m British, but I tend to think that the nastiest, cruelest, most cutting criticisms are best delivered in a calm tone of voice and with an icily polite smile. If what you want to convey is that you consider someone beneath contempt and not even worthy to clean the shit off the shoes of decent people, there’s no need to scream and yell at them. Contempt is one of those dishes best served very, very cold. It cuts deeper that way.

    The fact that a lot of feminists are quite good at this is, I suspect, why MRAs are so obsessed with “shaming language”. It does hurt them, and it’s meant to. And no, we’re not going to stop.

  14. No Cuntry 4 Old Men!

    Most of these online fools who call themselves MRA’s are extremely bitter and frustrated virgins who can’t get a date off the calendar.

  15. Uhh… okay? What’s with the anti-virgin stuff?

  16. Sweet Satan…

  17. yea…being a virgin isn’t bad :/ I get what you’re trying to say, I’m sure lots of them are bitter which is a problem, but whether they are virgins or not is irrelevant.

  18. I’m still in the decision making process on NC4OM. Trolling or just stupid – votes?

    I also suspect that part of the issue may be that she’s very young. The “OMG you’re a virgin you loser” thing tends to be most often used by young people, ime.

  19. I’m voting for both. She’s been here under a few names before.

  20. Is the fact that NC4OM called some hypothetical person a “virgin” in a semi-negative way really an important point that needs to be analyzed in great detail for the rest of the night?

  21. Yes, Joe, it does. What’s your point?

  22. Well, we could talk about her Islamophobia too, if you like, but that’s just frustrating.

  23. @hellkell: if your goal is to drive off all the people who 99.99% percent agree with you, because of relatively minor language issues that really count for about 0.01% of what’s going on in the real world, then this looks like a really successful strategy.

  24. @Cassandra: if I’m stepping into a situation with a longer and deeper history with this particular person, I apologize and will back away.

  25. Or you could drive off all the people who happen to be virgins and don’t appreciate being compared to MRAs. That’s not something I want to do. Do you?

  26. Are we talking about NC4OM, or you? Frankly, she’s adding nothing but Islamophobia, and the jury’s still out on you. All you seem to be doing is whining that this isn’t one big pistol-packin’ language free-for-all.

  27. I may be a bitter and frustrated virgin, but I ain’t no MRA.

  28. @Joanna
    “God, it’s the internet! Stop whining you big babies! The internet doesn’t care about your “hurt feelings”.

    Sweeeeet! Don’t bitch like an entitled, gold-digging, loud-mouthed, false accusing, child-stealing, violent, communist, slutwalking crack-ho if someone hurts your precious feelings. The internet just don’t care.
    ——————
    @Daphne B.
    “It’s like, does nugganu *want* people to associate sex with punishment, and go “sex, ewww!” or what?”

    This from feminists? The worlds foremost proponents of sadistic, whipping, caning, torture sex? Feminist sex seems to be intertwined with punishment. I guess when you’re dead on the inside, ya need something to remind yourself you’re actually alive.
    ——————-
    @darksidecat
    “This is primarily a homophobic insult”

    The word, “homophobic,” doesn’t work as a shaming tool, how many times do we have to go over this? Gay sex is simply a repulsive act and deserves to be shamed. And anyone who supports it equally repulsive and deserves to be shamed as well.
    ——————-
    @no more mr nice guy
    “These guys are cowards, they mainly attack women.”

    We’re all equals so why would you make a distinction that attacking a woman is somehow worse than attacking a man?
    ——————-
    “They need to think that most men are like them and that all women are feminists.”

    Most men are like us. And most women are feminists to an extent, a lifetime of indoctrination has ensured that.
    ——————–
    @Hershele Ostropoler
    “That’s separate from the question of whether it’s an insult. If creepiness is reasonably well defined, and the word “creep” is applied only to people who clearly display creepiness, calling someone a creep is just pointing that out.”

    “Creepiness” is just one of many insults in a womans arsenol. Any man who doesn’t meet a womans approval at any particular moment in time is a creep. Note, “elevator creep,” and the 100% support from team woman.
    ———————
    @Kyrie
    “Heck, I need therapy myself and that nothing to be ashamed of, and I do think many of these angered people should seek counsel. (which they are unlikely to do, because, guess what, Real Men(tm) are told they don’t need it)”

    Therapy is simply the validation any womans, “feelings.” If a woman goes to a therapist and talks about a man problem, she will be in the right, and have her feelings validated. If a man does the same, he’ll be wrong, and in need of change. The vast majority of therapists are women. And out of all therapists, for every 1 conservative therapist, there are 15 leftist therapists. The last thing any man needs is a therapist. It’s like going to a feminist.
    ———————-
    @Naira
    “The difference is that real oppression generally happens to people for things they have no control over.”

    Like State law enacted by feminists.
    ———————–
    @bekabot
    “If you’re outside the system you can see what’s wrong with such logic, but if you’re inside the system, which these guys are, the faultiness inherent in this brand of thinking can escape you.”

    Feminism has been around for well over a century. It started out as a hate movement. Believe me, we know all about the inherent flaws.
    ———————-
    @Improbable Joe
    ” Is it just that it sounds like the way the bad guys dehumanize the good guys?”

    Who told ya feminism was good? Feminists?

  29. @hellkell: Really? Then I guess you and I won’t be friends. Doesn’t break my heart, but I’ll not be run off by you because you can’t tolerate a 0.01% difference in people.

  30. “Or you could drive off all the people who happen to be virgins and don’t appreciate being compared to MRAs. That’s not something I want to do. Do you?”

    Isn’t Spearhoc, much loved regular commenter, in that position? I certainly don’t think that driving people like him away would be an acceptable outcome.

    And yeah, there’s a history with this person. It can be seen in several threads right now, actually. There’s no point digging back for older comment threads since she’s essentially saying the same things, though the last thread about religion was particularly lulzy.

  31. @Cassandra: Then time for me to avoid defending someone who seems to have intentionally caused bad blood. :)

    As much as I’m against all religions on principle, I’m not so ideologically driven that I can’t see that the followers of religion tend to be mostly OK people. Islamophobia is just another bigotry that I’m against.

  32. Oh, darn, what ever shall I do? Hey, Joe, you’re more than welcome to pull “the other things are going on the world, can’t believe you’re going to concentrate on this” crap and expect everyone to bow down to the rightness that is you, but don’t be surprised if it doesn’t work too well. Be a pompous ass all you want.

  33. This from feminists? The worlds foremost proponents of sadistic, whipping, caning, torture sex? Feminist sex seems to be intertwined with punishment. I guess when you’re dead on the inside, ya need something to remind yourself you’re actually alive.

    This from the poster known as Slavey, wearing chains. Projection, thy name is nwo.

  34. @NWOslave: Feminism is just fine by me, because I don’t see life as some sort of cutthroat competition or zero-sum game. Women having equal rights doesn’t mean I lose any rights, it just means I might lose an unfair privilege that I didn’t earn in the first place. In fact, women achieving real equality means that I gain some benefit as well, because things like freedom and equality are cumulative. Anything that can be denied to a person because they are female can later be denied to others because they fail to meet some other qualification. If you oppose women being equal, you open the door for some races to be less equal, or for some religions to have more rights than others. More freedoms and equality for any group means more of it for everyone else too.

  35. @hellkell:

    No, I don’t expect everyone to choose my priorities: that’s a privilege you claim for yourself. I only mentioned it as a concern, but I don’t make your claim of holding others in judgment based on my personal criteria. Also, I never insulted you, that was another privilege you claimed for yourself.

  36. No Cuntry 4 Old Men!

    “Uhh… okay? What’s with the anti-virgin stuff?”

    Snowy, nothing against virgins. I’m celibate by choice myself right now and loving it. These MRA virgins refer to themselves as INCELs, that means involuntarily celibate. They are frustrated and very, very angry that women are not attracted to them. They seek a type of Sexual Marxism, from each according to her ability, to each according to his need, as a resolution to the fact that they are unable to attract women on their own merit. They are of the opinion that the government or “society” should assign them a mate! They believe that is their “right”! That ties into their whole “societal contract” theory.

    As far as “Islamophobia” – utter nonsense. I am critical of Islam as a religion and the Quran as an Islamic text because they are both problematic, especially wrt womens rights and religious freedom. Both need to be thoroughly revised, updated and feminized. I’m sure the MRA’s here will disagree with that, but my fellow Feminist commenters will agree.

  37. This from feminists? The worlds foremost proponents of sadistic, whipping, caning, torture sex? Feminist sex seems to be intertwined with punishment. I guess when you’re dead on the inside, ya need something to remind yourself you’re actually alive.

    A proper BDSM relationship involves consent, and it’s not the be-all-and-end-all of feminist sex. A few radical feminists are dead-set against it, considering it nothing more than reenacting and reinforcing already existing patriarchal roles.

    Those on the pro side see it as a healthy catharsis; a way of dealing with gender roles and power-relations in a safe and emotionally fulfilling way. They don’t consider it to be the only kind of sex people should have, but it is acceptable as long as both parties enthusiastically agree to everything involved.

    It’s certainly not my kink – not that I have any experience with sex at all, but it’s not what I fantasize about (sorry for the TMI) – but I don’t feel it’s my place to judge anyone for acting out fantasies in a safe way with those they trust.

  38. Please note that everyone who disagrees with what NC4OM has to say about Islam and how to modernise it is an MRA.

  39. “Those on the pro side see it as a healthy catharsis; a way of dealing with gender roles and power-relations in a safe and emotionally fulfilling way. They don’t consider it to be the only kind of sex people should have, but it is acceptable as long as both parties enthusiastically agree to everything involved.”

    Just a little side note here – not ass BSDM is M/f D/s. I know that some radfems, and most sexist dudes, make that assumption, but let’s not buy into it.

    I dunno what you’d call my desire to tie men to the bed, but it’s certainly not an attempt to deal with gender roles.

  40. All, not ass. Now that was a funny typo, in context.

  41. LOL@Cassandra!!!!!!

  42. Both need to be thoroughly revised, updated and feminized. I’m sure the MRA’s here will disagree with that, but my fellow Feminist commenters will agree.

    You are such a stealth troll XDXDXD

  43. Improbable Joe: “about 0.01% of what’s going on in the real world”. Joe, I like reading most of your comments, but seriously, could you take a step back and stop defining what the “real world” and “normal” are? Your experience is valuable, but it’s not definitive.

    I think what I’m trying to say is, check your privilege.

  44. No Cuntry 4 Old Men!

    Call me an MRAphobe too, then. Both MRA and Islam are problematic as ideologies. On their own, individual MRAs and Muslims may be wonderful people, but if they are influenced by the dangerous ideologies inherent within either, then they are sadly being negatively influenced.

    MRA and Islam are bedfellows for a reason (pun intended).

    Both need to be revised, updated, and feminized. Maybe even tied to that bed they’re sharing and given a good spanking.
    ;)

  45. I know some Muslims who are wonderful people. MRAs, though? Nope, not even one.

    Also, ew.

  46. Both need to be revised, updated, and feminized. Maybe even tied to that bed they’re sharing and given a good spanking.

    ………..what?

  47. How does one “revise” a person, exactly?

  48. Snowy, nothing against virgins. I’m celibate by choice myself right now and loving it. These MRA virgins refer to themselves as INCELs, that means involuntarily celibate. They are frustrated and very, very angry that women are not attracted to them.

    Maybe you could have referred to INCELs then, instead of virgins? I agree with you that they’re creepy, but I don’t think that’s any reason to insult all virgins anymore than it would be reason to insult all men.

    They seek a type of Sexual Marxism, from each according to her ability, to each according to his need, as a resolution to the fact that they are unable to attract women on their own merit.

    Are you quoting from The Handmaids Tale now? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good book. But I’m pretty sure they haven’t read it.

    They are of the opinion that the government or “society” should assign them a mate! They believe that is their “right”! That ties into their whole “societal contract” theory.

    So, are you Societal Contract/HINDU? I’ve been wondering.

  49. Before this unfortunate business with hellkell goes any further, let me clarify my position… because I kind of like this community of people, and would like to be a part of it:

    I’m an atheist. I’ve been one all my life, since I was a scared little kid in my Superman pajamas clutching a glow-in-the-dark sword, too afraid of the dark to make it to the bathroom without a nightlight AND a weapon. My folks explained to me that stories with monsters and talking animals and magic were all imaginary, and I didn’t have to be afraid of them. When I stumbled across the illustrated Bible stories, I treated them the same way, as just made-up fables like Santa Claus and Thor and Hercules and all the rest. I assumed adults did as well.

    It was all good until my family moved from NYC to Mayberry, and I found out that adults completely bought into religion as well. It was horrifying, and really shook my foundations pretty hard. It got worse a few years later, when I was in high school and my cross country coach invited the team to his church after we had a winning season. My mother freaked out when she heard that it wasn’t a Catholic church, and even more when I told her that I wasn’t actually a Catholic or a member of any religion.

    It was stressful for awhile, culminating in a Thanksgiving where I was slow to the table, the family was going to pray over the food, and when my sister-in-law asked for them to wait for me my mother decided to loudly announce that I was too “stupid” to be religious. It led to a huge fight, lots of tears, and my mother finally accepting my atheism. Part of the fight was that I told her that if I could keep my mouth shut every time she mentioned “God” or “Jesus” and didn’t throw my atheism in her face, then the least she could do is show me the same respect.

    We’re all good now. And when she says “God bless you” when I sneeze, I don’t correct her and say that there is no God. She says “thank God” and “thank you Jesus” and other religious things in my presence, and I don’t stop the conversation to have a theological debate with her even though I know I would “win”. She doesn’t insist that I take part, and she ignores my rather frequent blasphemy. She’s my mom, she loves me and I love her. We each think the other is wrong, but neither thinks the other is evil or bad.

    So when I suggest that it is possible and even occasionally preferable not to nitpick language or phrases or whatever, I’m not trying to undermine anyone. All I’m saying is that if it is possible that we’re on the same side, and not opposing one another, then it should also be possible not to insist on beating one another down over relatively small differences. I think pretty much most people are pretty much OK people… and I hope people see me the same way. I hope that my relatively tiny missteps don’t need to be blown up into giant disagreements. I’ll try to respond to others in the same way… which means that I’m sorry hellkell, that I’ve probably been more aggressive with you than strictly necessary, out of defensiveness that has not much to do with you. That’s my bad, and I take all the blame for it.

    If I’m dead-wrong, that’s one thing. If you think I’m very slightly wrong and you feel driven to argue, aren’t you proving my point? :)

  50. Both need to be revised, updated, and feminized. Maybe even tied to that bed they’re sharing and given a good spanking.

    Wow. What the hell. Now I know you’re just fucking with us.

  51. Snowy, yes that’s Societal Contract/HINDU as NC4OM.

  52. @felixBC: I’ve checked my privilege from the start. It isn’t all my fault if people didn’t see that. I’ve said over and over that my perspective doesn’t particularly matter, and absolutely doesn’t matter in situations where I feel a preference and others feel an imperative. Go look again.

  53. Thinks that doing something sexual to someone against their will is going to win that person over to your point of view?

    I would live to revise my original question. MRA troll or stupid?

  54. I’m not trying to undermine anyone. All I’m saying is that if it is possible that we’re on the same side, and not opposing one another, then it should also be possible not to insist on beating one another down over relatively small differences.

    You call this person on our side??:

    Both need to be revised, updated, and feminized. Maybe even tied to that bed they’re sharing and given a good spanking.

  55. You know, given that we’re not so thrilled to hear MRAs say that feminism needs to be completely “revised”, and that various terrorists think the same about western culture, I’m just not into jumping on the bandwagon of blithely announcing that Islam needs to be revised and updated.

    Also, NC4OM, maybe go check out the work of several hundreds of years of Muslim writing and thought and culture before deciding in all your wisdom that it’s all shite, sorry, a “problematic” and “dangerous” ideology.

    Here’s a good place to start: Shirin Neshat

    http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/neshat.htm

  56. Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Joe.

  57. And now I’m singing “sexual Marxism” in my head to the tune of “Sexual Healing”… also, is it bad that I sing out the name of this site to Batgirl’s theme on the old 1960s Batman show? Manboooooooobz… MANBOOBZ! Manboooooooobz… MANBOOBZ!

  58. hellkell, you’re not a nice person.

  59. Why didn’t anyone warn me that hellkell was an MRA troll?

  60. Why didn’t anyone warn me that hellkell was an MRA troll?

    Uh, possibly because hellkell is not an MRA troll?

  61. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea that NC4OM has travelled all over the world, and observed the way Islam is practised in many different countries, and she still thinks it’s a monolith that is the same everywhere. And she’s been to Saudi Arabia. Um, what? There is literally not a single other country in the world that looks quite like the Kingdom in terms of social organization. The closest would the countries that immediately surround it, like Kuwait or Yemen (but add a totally different economic reality in Yemen – the gender stuff is similar, though). To say that, for example, Malaysia (where I’ve been) looks anything like Saudi in terms of gender relations?

    Dude, that’s fucking ridiculous.

  62. Please spare me the tastelsess joke joe. hellkell is not a troll.

  63. Really, Snowy? Because up until now, only MRAs would assert that someone was committing bestiality. Are you telling me that “be a little forgiving of small differences” rates someone saying to me “Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Joe”?

  64. jumbofisch, “Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Joe” is an appropriate response to polite disagreement?

  65. Seriously dude?

  66. Before this unfortunate business with hellkell

    It’s not just with hellkell.

    If I’m dead-wrong, that’s one thing. If you think I’m very slightly wrong and you feel driven to argue, aren’t you proving my point?

    This reads as pure douchebag. A very small douchebag, perhaps not worth going after, but still, douchebaggy. But hey, keep on defining the terms of the debate, and let us know when we’ve won or lost, how you did, and what the prizes are.

  67. Seriously, if any of you think “Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Joe” is an appropriate response to ANYTHING, there’s something seriously wrong with you.

  68. hellkell is pretty pissed at you and yes people say some nasty things when they are pissed but no that doesn’t make a person a mra.

  69. No one said it was appropriate….

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