Men’s Rights Posters Now Officially Sillier Than Their Parodies
It’s hard to parody Men’s Rights Activists, because no matter how ridiculous your parody is, there’s a good chance that some MRA out there has already said, or written, or sung, something even more ridiculous already.
Not that long ago, a bunch of Man Boobz regulars set out to parody the bizarre, and often inadvertently surrealistic, posters that have been popping up on MRA sites like A Voice for Men and Artistry Against Misandry. It was hard, but I think some of us managed to come up with posters that were even uglier and less coherent than the originals. I especially liked these two, from (respectively) Cliff Pervocracy and Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III.
But alas, we have been outmaneuvered by the all-too-serious poster-makers on A Voice for Men, who have managed to produce posters that make even less sense than our silliest parodies. Take a look at this one, which I believe is the work of an Australian MRA by the name of Roger O. Thornhill.
I mean, really. How can we compete with that?
This is an actual poster that some MRAs think will actually win people over to their cause. How, I’m not exactly sure. What exactly about a cupcake with a tiara is supposed to scream “men’s rights” to random pedestrians who might catch a glimpse of this poster wheatpasted to a hoarding while on their way to work?
For more of Roger’s fine work, see here and here.
Man Boobzers, can you do better?
Or, if you’re not up to that Herculean task, could you at least try to explain just what exactly you think Mr. Thornhill was trying to say with that poster of his?
EDITED TO ADD: I have been asked to contribute a poster myself. So here one is. You can find many more hilarious and incredibly ugly posters at ArtistryForFeminismAndKittens and, of course, in the comments below!
Posted on November 27, 2012, in a voice for men, antifeminism, artistry, cupcake, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, the poster revolution has begun and tagged a voice for men, anti-feminism, men's rights, misogyny, MRA. Bookmark the permalink. 703 Comments.
First Joe: I notice how you don’t address the distinct possibility of the father who “aborted” the child later telling that child the lie that it wasn’t what he wanted. Apparently, you don’t care about kids being hurt and families being destroyed by that.
Um, no they can’t. If they abandon the child, after a certain age (usually up to 2 weeks old) they can face charges for child abandonment. Adoption and the like usually hinges on the father having ALREADY fucked off and left, otherwise if he wants the child, and the mother doesn’t he’ll usually get it. Here there are a very few non-family adoptions, and they are all for cute white babies. Tough luck for an eight year old who’s brown, I guess.
And your discussion with Cloudiah has no relevance. Either actions have consequences for both parties (you can’t put the child back after it’s in the world FFS) or you’re just trying to say men should have their kids whenever they want to, but they can give them back if they don’t want to, and if they want to have an adult relationship with the child and any granddchildren that’s just dandy too.
Possums that get in the kitchen (or the racoons that have been fighting on my roof the past couple nights) are smarter, don’t ‘splain, and less annoying than Joe.
Hellkell: They are certainly less condescending.
That’s it! From now on, I’ll just imagine our trolls sounding like two racoons in a territorial dispute. Which is: yipyipyipARGHyipyipyip.
Hellkell, you don’t get possums like we get possums. I’s rather have an MRA in my kitchen. They’re much less likely to be possessed by satan and much more likely to die if I shoot them with a shotgun.*
*I’m not shooting anyone, I don’t own a shotgun, and you can blow the back leg off a possum and it’ll keep coming at you.
WeeBoy: Damn, those are some possums. The ones we get here in TX are pretty shy and take off as soon as they see you.
@Amused – err, yeah I did. It would be a matter of legal record. Otherwise the whole thing wouldn’t work. Duh.
@Weeboy – What are those penalties? Do they add up to 18 years? Women can and do abandon their kids, often to hospitals. Afaik they are rarely, if ever prosecuted.
Why do you have a problem with the father (in effect) adopting his own kid when the mother doesn’t want it?
No I’m not saying that. Obviously you failed to read my agreement with Cloudiah that there would be big financial penalties (i.e. child support back-dated) if a father tried to reverse his disownment. You also seem to fixated on the “abortion” in “paper abortion”. Substitute “disownment” see if you get it then.
As you ought to know, Joe, in the UK a woman who gives up a child for adoption indicates whether or not they would welcome contact from that child or not at the time they process the agreement.
The other thing you ought to know is that the reason a man was held legally responsible for the acts of his wife is the same reason he was legally responsible for the acts of his cow. She was his property and had no individual existence under law. It was called coverture and you can look it up.
The abuse statistics are one in seven victims of D V are men, while ninety seven percent of the perps are men. Given that one in seven statistic I do not think the fourteen percent who are men need forty percent of the facilities. I am not surprised that you do.
I do not even know what to say about your bizarre idea of men financially aborting their children when they are tired of them. Even disinheriting them is a complex process.
Now I am asking myself why I bothered. D00d is an inadequate troll.
Uncle Joe: Do they force mothers who abandon their babies or give them up for adoption to record “why I didn’t want you” videos? Oh, they don’t? Well, it’s obviously sexist bullshit then.
No, they don’t, but the mother’s giving the babies up for adoption aren’t forcing anyone to rear the child; without support. The people who adopt are going into it eyes open; not being abandoned by the other parent because they don’t want to support the child.
@hellkell – No, not necessarily, I don’t see why people-in-general should pay to raise Mr. or Ms. X’s kid in particular. If Mr. or Ms. X choose to have a child they should work to pay for raising that child.
Unless that person is a man, then he can “file a paper abortion” and leave the woman to pick up the entire tab.
Equality it ain’t.
@Pecunium – you literally have no idea how percentages work do you? Moron.
Um… no, I do.
If I live in a town of 1,000 people, and we have 2 murders, then we have a much higher rate of murder than if I live in a town of 1 million and there are 200.
Fewer murders, much higher rate.
Lets say the ratio of men to women is 10 to 1 (which is actually pretty close to the numbers I can find; for the US).
Of 10000 men, 1500 default.
Of 1000 women 250 default.
The relative rates will show women as being “much” more likely to default, even though the absolute numbers are a lot smaller.
It also means outside forces can easily skew the numbers. If women are paid less, as a rule they will have a harder time making payments. If they are fired soonest in the event of economic downturn it won’t take much to see a spike in the rates of default.
Which is the other failing in your logic. You don’t take the variables into account; not even in the portions you are relating (what with your pretense that percentages are always direct. Because what I want to see is the percentage of women who are completely able to pay child support who default as compared to men who are in the same circumstance.
As you say, one needs to compare apples to apples.
Get back to me when you have data.
@bewildered – it’s your assdata that’s inadaequate:
“Data from Home Office statistical bulletins and the British Crime Survey show that men made up about 40% of domestic violence victims each year between 2004-05 and 2008-09, the last year for which figures are available. In 2006-07 men made up 43.4% of all those who had suffered partner abuse in the previous year, which rose to 45.5% in 2007-08 but fell to 37.7% in 2008-09.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence
Sorry to burst your bubble Bewildered but if there’s one thing the UK is ahead of the US on it’s the recognition of men victims of DV. Even gov’t-spokescreatures talk about it now.
WeeBoy: I’d rather have the ‘possum. When I shoot one them it’s pretty easy to dispose of the body.
If you are shooting them in the back leg, you are doing it wrong. :)
(I kept chickens, and when the ‘possums, or worse; raccoons, would cause the geese to hiss it was time to go out and shoot them. It’s not that hard).
Of course! I forgot the part where a woman defending herself by hitting back is considered a DV perp for statistical purposes and study popularization.
@Pecunium – women in the UK can give their kid up into state care / up for adoption at any time, thus severing all responsibilty for the child, including financial responsibility. As long as women have that – men should have the same effective right too. That is all.
You do believe in equality, right?
Yeah, well even people you don’t like (men) should have equality too.
Joe – if you can pay for the child, and you put them into foster care, guess what? You have to pay child support!
I’m completely for the idea that if a woman doesn’t want to raise a child, and the child’s father does, he should be able to – and the mother should pay child support.
@bewildered – congratulations on showing yourself up as genuine misandrist bigot. You just attempted to hand wave away genuine victims of domestic violence. You suck ass!
*sets humane trap on floor, waits for possum to step on the sticky surface*
Joe, men do have equality. If they are the sole caregiver they can put the child into state care. You won’t be able to have an adoption if the other parent doesn’t sign off on it though, which can be difficult when some people play horrible little games using ther children as pawns.
You’re right though. The one in seven dv victims being men is not a UK specific statistic.
@weeboy – Pretty sure that’s not how State / foster care works in the UK. I could be wrong, but I’ve never heard of that here, NZ law may be different.
Thank you Joe. I consider that a compliment coming from you.
@weeboy – no, that’s not equality, see: abortion. And the whole of the last three pages or whatever.
Anyway. Goodnight boobzers.
Thank God. Most boring conversation ever.
*Possum scurries outside the kitchen door seemingly unconcerned that he caused a ruckus. I celebrate with a snack and big glass of wine.*
@pecunium – I’ve never been great shakes at shooting, I’ll admit that, but there is a big difference between the American opossum and the New Zealand possum. Those fuckers can end up weighing more than ten pounds and are generally possessed by satan. Luckily we don’t get them locally any more, after the bird sanctuary was set up and every wild stoat, possum and cat within a ten km radius was poisoned.
Possums! My dog, from whom I take my user name, was just chasing one outside. It was bigger than the dog. But my fierce little guy showed him the what-for before I even saw what was going on.
Given that we were specifically talking about when the child was already born… Think it hurt trying to shift those goal posts?
God storm in a teaspoon that guy.
Thank you, driversuz, for making me appreciate my mother in law. She may well get an extra-nice Christmas present this year just as a thanks for not being you. My stepmother is also looking pretty awesome right now, comparatively.
The sad thing about Joe is that occasionally he almost hits on a real point, but then his argleragebargle kicks in and he misinterprets what he’s seeing and why it happened. Like the fact that men’s suicide rates go up after divorce. That’s a real thing that actually happens, and it’s a bad thing, but do you think it would occur to Joe that those men might be missing their “bosswives”? LOL no. On the idea that men should lend each other more emotional support in the wake of serious life events – yep, that’s a real thing that doesn’t happen often enough and needs to happen more. Now, let’s take a look at all the stuff that the MRM preaches about Proper Manliness. How much do you think that stuff helps in dismantling the idea that men aren’t allowed to show emotional weakness or ask for help? Can you imagine the average MRA giving his buddy a hug when the buddy was grieving a failed marriage? If a man turned up on an MRA site and said “I just got divorced and I’m sad and lonely and confused and I don’t know what to do now”, what kind of advice would he get, and would it be of the “it’ll be OK buddy, hang in there” variety or of the “grr women are bitches, evil bosswives, you should show that judge what’s what like Thomas Ball!” variety?
There are situations where men face actual problems. The MRM isn’t helping.
Damn, I really wanted Joe to make a poster. I was pretty sure the C1A would figure into it… I’ve only known one other person who could ping pong back and forth between jocularity and pure rage like him; he was an ex-Mormon turned atheist hippie actor, who wore a huge peace sign every day and was so full of barely masked anger that a bunch of us who had to work with him referred to it as “Bert’s not-too-underground river of rage.”
@CassandraSays: Nail on head, you hit it.
Ooooh, and there are some more posters — must go look!
I never had a possum story until this past summer when the feral cats my next door neighbor feeds had reached a population of approx 15, so I got some traps from the humane society to Trap-Neuter-Return them,
but in the middle of the night of trapping it started pouring rain, so I went out to bring in the traps, except I was sleepy and I didn’t check their contents very carefully for catliness. so the next morning I come downstairs to 8 cute feral cats and one really ugly feral cat who was really a possum. boy do they look scary!
Check it out guys, I tried my best but I fear it’s too coherent: http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Lauralot/parodyposter.png
The posters are wonderful, and so are the posters.
That cupcake dealio has me stumped though, unless it is a bait and switch for the younger generation who grew up with birthday cupcakes at school.
That My-Son-Is-A-God screed driversuz left feels hinky to me. Like someone taking on a mom persona so they can write about themselves (the son) in a ridiculously flattering, matter-of-factly way. Or the son is total bunk, a fictional astand-in for all the worthy men who are too good for evil femininsts…a projection of how MRAs see themselves and fantasies about femininsts wanting them — but being denied the pleasure.
‘Cause if that really is a mom writing about her son, it’s kind of, errr, embarassing.
So the kids should suffer because their parents are poor? And if the kid was yours, and you chose to disown it, you’d really be OK with whatever then happened to that child, even if lack of government funding meant the child ended up hungry, uneducated, etc? You’re actually that emotionally cold, that if you had signed a piece of paper you’d just stop caring about the child’s welfare?
(This is actually an interesting side issue for me in the abortion debate – one of the reasons I don’t buy the “well just put the baby up for adoption!” argument is that if I did that I’d have no idea what ended up happening to the child, and if I brought a child into the world I would feel responsible for ensuring that child’s welfare. What if the kid ended up in an abusive home? I just wouldn’t be OK with not knowing for sure that the child was being well taken care of. So the idea that people want to go “well, I signed a piece of paper disowning the kid so it’s not my problem” seems appalling to me That’s an actual kid that you helped create – how can you not care whether or not zie is OK?.)
My neighbor Bob has traps in his yard for the squirrels and possums. He takes ‘em across the highway and releases them into the woods. He borrowed Mr. HK once to drive him there when his car was in the shop.
That is only the tip of the “Neighbor Bob” iceberg.
Hot buttered hamsters!
(We eat them because we can’t stand how MRAs point out our Women’s Rationalization Hamsters. Which manginas also have because handwave.)
Psst the NZ possums aren’t native; they were introduced from Australia. Typical stupid stunt, don’t ask me who did it – they’re protected here, as native fauna, but a pest in New Zealand.
I should add I think they’re a helluva lot cuter than the American opossums. They do sound like Satan’s spawn when they’re on the rampage though. And they wear seven-league boots when they gallop across the roof.
Jesus wept, why is it so impossible for these MRA assholes to comprehend using a condom every time, or getting a vasectomy? Or going to India for RISUG? If you don’t want to risk spawning, prevent it. Then there’s no need for this ridiculous garbage about “paper abortions” which is fucking insulting and absurd.
(yeah yeah, I know, ebil wommens will snatch the condoms and steal the precious spermz to make babies against his will oh noes! Ignore that whole “medically impossible” part.)
PS – I’d support male hormonal birth control pills, but the women’s version isn’t 100% effective now after several decades. Always double up protection, folks, just to be safe!
Did I tell people here that I encountered a family of racoons a while back? Mom and two little ones, walking along the side of the road at about 3 am. They were adorable, until they spotted another adult raccoon and started making the freaky raccoon noises.
Also, riffing on drst’s point, they know that hormonal contraception for women comes with some nasty potential side effects, right? If the male pill had similar issues, and it probably will given that it will be hormonal, then some men might not be super thrilled about taking it. It would be good for them to have that option, I’m just wondering if when it does happen MRAs will decide that the inevitable side effects are a result of misandry by evil feminist researchers.
The nonexistent Manboobz Street Team must be feeling pretty lonely with us making all of these quality AVFM posters (totally for free, might I add), so here’s one for the gynocrat team!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-women-in-combat-20121128,0,3989656.story
Yay for suing to get combat positions. Boo it takes this.
Weeboy: The largest possum I’ve shot was about 14 pounds. Raccoons… they can get up to about 25.
The American Opossum happens to have one of the scariest sets of jaws I know of… locking forceps are the best comparison. They can lock them, and then the rasps on the mandible will keep them from opening.
But I am a dab hand with a rifle, and don’t let them get that close.
I’m glad to have never met a racoon. Most of the wildlife here isn’t trying to kill you (take that Australia!) and the only thing I’ve ever had to really face was wild pigs, and those tend to be hunted by gruff men who make children run for miles because the dog and the WeeGirl got spots on the four wheeler. (WeeGIrl is my bby cousin. Clearly this was misandrist sharing of resources, because CuzzyBro and I had to run everywhere. Mainly we ended up getting left mostly behind and going off to play Robin Hood or attempt to shoot rabbits)
Damn, what are you feeding the possums over there? Is this some sort of toxic sludge/mutant ninja possum situation?
Racoons are big, but not really that scary other than the evil noises. Possums…I dunno, they really do seem to be possessed by Satan.
One of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a while – there’s a cat that lives near Mr C that seems to have made friends with a possum. You see them sitting side by side on the fence sometimes, just hanging out. He and I both suspect this to be a sign of the Apocalypse.
So, it turns out that our household colds are actually the flu and I feel like crap again. And bad posters are surprisingly hard to make when you’re not feeling well. But I managed one!
Cassandra: Raccoons aren’t scary so long as you don’t have anything they want or make them feel threatened. They are dangerous as all fuck in both those cases.
@ pecunium
Yeah, the only time I’ve ever felt nervous around one is when carrying take-away food. Didn’t quite like the look they were giving me then. I restrain the urge to go pet them since I assume they wouldn’t appreciate it.
Submitting this one in the category “unclear on concept.”
Okay, I had to split the poster post into parts.
Keep going! Yay, clairedammit! And katz and Tulgey, keep going! XD
Claire, way to work the possum conversation into your poster.
Which is the easiest program to use to make these (that’s free)?
@ cassandrasays – I’ve just been using ms paint, for that extra touch of amateurishness.
Do you have the standard Microsoft suite? Word, PowerPoint, etc. postermywall.com is a free web utility.
JOIN US, CASSANDRASAYS, JOIN US.
Cassandra, for real, the shittier the program, the greater the authenticity. I made the dog-woman one in Microsoft Word and the other two in Paint. Any word processor that allows embedded images or any basic image software that comes with your OS should be perfect.
Katz, that’s a Rationalization Possum. I have one living in my backyard. It lives off the burned popcorn we throw out there now and then.
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIINNNNN UUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSS!!!!!!!
It’s not an MRA poster, but pardon me while I derail the thread with PHILOSORAPTOR!
http://memegenerator.net/instance/30924653
Yesssssssss. Joins uss, we sayssssss.
Cassandra, that rug looks like it’s made of flesh. *shudder*
Yay, Cassandra is one of us now!
Why do you think I chose that image?
I wanted to write “take the red pill” on her ass but Word wouldn’t let me.
My cat Buster is wondering why I am laughing so hard. Well, more likely, wondering why I am so seismic.