War Declared on Misandric Pants
Puppy battling the evil of Misandric Pants
One effect of living within the ideological bubble of the Men’s Rights movement is what you might call ideological inflation: MRAs start off believing, for example, that women don’t face discrimination today, in the developed world — an idea that’s wrong enough to start with. But then, surrounded by other delusional MRAs who reinforce their every wrong notion, the denizens of the Men’s Rights bubble come to believe that women haven’t ever been discriminated against anywhere and at any time in the history of the world. (You may recall those evil cavewomen who sat around eating prehistoric bon bons while the men hunted the mammoth to feed them.)
And that leads to things like the following video, in which the FeMRA video maker who calls herself The Wooly Bumblebee declares war on a pair of “Misandric Pants” she bought for her daughter by accident.
Yep, that’s right, she’s furious because one fucking percent of the proceeds made from selling these pants goes to a charity fighting against the very real discrimination and oppression that girls face all over the globe. You know, like being denied educations because they’re girls. Like being forced into child marriages with adult men. Like being forced into prostitution as children. That sort of thing.
Apparently girls don’t suffer from being repeatedly raped as children. But boys are totally oppressed because a tiny portion of the profits from a pair of pants goes to a charity that talks about, and tries to do something about, the shit girls have to endure because they are girls.
Posted on January 11, 2013, in all about the menz, antifeminism, dawgies, FemRAs, misandry, misogyny, MRA, YouTube and tagged antifeminism, men's rights, misandry, misogyny. Bookmark the permalink. 457 Comments.
Yep, cos donating to help girls means that boys are screwed over. Facepalm.
Was worried that the pants were misandric because some boy was turned on by them.
So, we have misandric chairs and now we have misandric jeans. ::rubs hands:: Right, the Feminist Conspiracy is going to plan! All things are made to attack men!
As a Brit, I’d expected the article to be about Bridget Jones “big pants” …
Pillowinhell – my first thought was that it was jeans squishing men’s bits or something a la Tom Martin.
If she’s so pissed, she can donate to a boy’s charity. FeMRAs blow my mind in general, but I really can’t understand the ones with daughters, who basically want them to hate themselves for being female. Poor kids.
Kitteh, yeah that thought occured to me too.
pillowinhell – I’m disappointed it’s not. It would have been funnier.
hellkell – yeah, being raised by an MRA or feMRA sounds like mental abuse right there.
Hellkell I don’t think the girls are supposed to take enough notice of themselves to have self hatred. Nothing less than totalself abgnagation? Is appropriate for a satisfactory vagina.
OK. A.) those pants are tragic, and B.) a shitfit is being thrown over 9 cents. Perspective, this chick does not have it.
But she had to ROB HER HUSBAND for nine more cents!
All for some worthless c*** they can’t even abuse!!
Okay, so I’ve been lurking on this site for a few months now, and I feel like I’ve already acclimated to a lot of the stupid and horrifying things MRAs say. I’m not sure why this instance in stupid has blindsided me, but it has. It’s just so backwards! I can’t wrap my head around how someone can actually think the way this woman does.
On the plus side, though, it’s a little bit fun imagining the conversation that might take place when she returns the pants.
When I saw “misandric pants” I thought they were ranting about skinny jeans for men and their ball-smooshing, sperm count lowering evil ways. I am disappoint.
“So, we have misandric chairs and now we have misandric jeans. ::rubs hands:: Right, the Feminist Conspiracy is going to plan! All things are made to attack men!”
Civilization=Misandry!! I win!!!!!
Yeah, I thought they were unisex, too loose in the ass, too tight in the front.
It would just be so much better if ALL the money went to those male CEOs and company directors.
I am sure when the girls get clean water, it won’t be shared with the boys at all. They’ll force the boys to drink contaminated water and laugh when they get sick. Then, they’ll join NOW.
Not to mention that anything that improves the lives of adult women will help to improve the lives of their sons or any other male children who are dependent on them.
I’m so embarrassed. I’ve been on the charity website and, of course, Woolly Bumblebee is right, the charity is misandric. They are trying to prevent men from having the child-brides that they need and deserve (and pay for). Total misandry. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before.
/sarcasm
Hey now, we all know that anything that benefits girls happens directly at the expense of the boys. I mean, just think of the poor men who won’t be able to rape, abuse, and throw acid in the faces of girls if this misandric charity gets its way!
Welcomd, JustACheeto! :)
Though I am a bit confused as to why she thinks a school that has banned jeans will allow stretchpants that look exactly like jeans ….
Dashed hopes that she was talking about the Magic Pants.
Hmm, I wonder if Pierre has room in his schedule for a part-time job at Macy’s.
Of course he does. He works everywhere.
Thanks Kitteh. :)
Well we all know that any girl who recieves benefits from this charity will be genetically altered to never have sons right? She’ll also be whisked away to Wonderous Land where life will be a dream and no boys are allowed. There they’ll spend their day plotting out how to ruin mens lives and laughing at the results/end snark.
You know, as opposed to having clean water so they can work or get an education and help their families out of the problems their in.
@titianblue
I wondered about too. My high school didn’t allow jeans either and you sure as hell couldn’t have worn Jean stretch pants.
OT but you know Bowie’s kid makes movies? We just added this to the Netflix list.
Welcome JustACheeto!
Convo when she returns the pants to Pierre?
You mean … they’ll join Man Boobz? ;)
Can you imagine the conversation with the daughter?
I’m hoping the girl understood what a phenomenally whiny wench her mother is and that she has only X number years of having to put up with it on a regular basis.
And of course, the money is also going to brown girls right?
If its an Asian country that’s being helped, the wife has a god damned duty to ensure that she sends money. I mean, when hubby trades her in for the new model he won’t want to hear “not now honey, I’m on the toilet” for his hotter better younger mail order bride.
God, I think I’ve really hit MRA overload.
So she bought a pair of jeans that were discounted from $29.99 to $9.99 and she’s whining about some small portion of the profits (which will be reduced because the item was discounted by about 67%, all of that discount will be eating into profit) going to a charity.
If she’s so anti-feminist, what was she doing going out and buying clothing that males might have helped make. She should be sewing them herself, from fabric made by her. Whose money did she spend on these jeans – hers (in which case, why did she steal a job from a man?) or her husbands (in which case, back to my earlier point of why didn’t she make these herself)?
And I forgot to add, her YouTube directs to her PayPal, to donate her money (for what????)
LOL and she clearly thinks feminists have an entitlement trip.
Totally OT but do any of our craft people here make necklaces? I’m about to do my first attempt at a beads and pins (? think that’s the term) one. Any tips?
@CassandraSays
I think Moon is an amazing movie. I hope you enjoy it.
Sorry, have only done beaded necklaces using thread and not pins. You might be able to find an About.com page that will help you. YouTube is probably also your friend for visual help.
@ Some Gal
It certainly looks interesting, plus I knew some people who knew Bowie Jr when he was a teenager and he was kind of a mess, so it’s cool to see that he’s sorted himself out.
Good idea, Kiwi gal. This necklace was threaded but went SNAP the other day (as they do). It occurred to me that using pins instead would be stronger and lengthen it a bit. My fave necklace, too, I got it at Phillip Island a couple of months ago. I’m just glad it broke in my bedroom and not when I was out somewhere!
@CassandraSays
I had no idea it was Bowie’s son. And it is always nice when people get their lives together. Moon is really brilliant. We saw it for Rockwell and Kevin Spacey.
@Kitteh, I don’t know what the necklace looks like but you could rethread the whole thing. I have one from my grandmother that I need to do that to. Your options would be along the lines of using actual thread (you’ll need to coat it in beeswax) or stuff that looks like thin fishing line. Sorry I can’t help with the pins idea :(
Some light entertainment, sadly he didn’t get his Kickstarter funded last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrww8e0UGxc
Mrs Misandric Pants sounds Canadian. Isn’t GWW Canadian too? Maybe I’m just getting my North American accents mixed up.
Kiwi girl (not gal! Mixing up nyms here) I had intended to re-thread it first, then had the idea that the pins might be better. I had a quick run-through on how it’s done at the shop where I bought them (Wholesale Beads in High St Prahran, if you’re ever in Melbourne – LOTS of pretty stuff). The spacer beads were gold and I thought I could just do the gold pins and not need to use the spacers at all. I’m now sitting here with clippers and crimping tool thingies and a bowl full of beads spread out around my laptop, wish me luck! :D
That’s it! I’m moving to Australia!!
Every fracking embroidery magazine advertizes Aussie shops where I can get the supplies I need. There is not one single place in CANADA that supplies embroiderers with the tools and materials needed, unless its counted cross stitch. And I hate counted cross stitch.
* starts packing lumberjack shirts, cans of timmies,gallon jugs of maple syrup and oh yeah…gotta pot some maple trees. *
**leaves embroidery stuff behind, should be easier to get over there and a beter variety and quality***
Oooo very good luck. I get nervous about things like that in combination with cats. When I’m doing crochet or knitting they often decide that it is their turn for mommy’s attention. I would freak me out if I was beading.
I don’t get to go to Melbourne for work, I get Canberra. :(
@pillowinhell LOL I buy most of my crochet items from the US because it’s too damn hard for me to get specialist hooks and anything other than DK yarn here. Most of my patterns are US and everyone in the US seems to like worsted instead of DK, which is one of the least stocked yarn weights in NZ.
However, I am currently buried in sock yarn and obtaining more sock yarn patterns. I love making socks, but I my preference is to upskill in crochet. Eventually I may get brave and crochet socks instead of knitting them.
Yeah Miss Pants is a Canuck.
Next in today’s edition of Ask a Canuck! Other than putting it on pancakes what does one do with maple syrup?
She sounded Canadian to me too.
Not a Canuck, but I’m from Maine and Vermont, so I know my way around maple syrup. I like it in coffee, or a little dash of it to sweeten various dishes. My favorite: fry bacon, remove bacon and fry Swiss chard in the bacon grease, add crumbled bacon and maple syrup (and maybe some red pepper flakes). Yum!
pillowinhell, you getting a constant “You can buy this in Oz” is the definition of irony, ‘cos pretty well everything I want is only available online to US customers. I had a minor shitfit a while back when the Pyramid clothing collection decided I couldn’t even READ its website from my location. Their loss, I’d have spent serious money with them.
Hey bring that lumberjack gear with you, we want to make Pierre feel at home if he ever visits downunder again,
Kiwigirl – I’m pretty safe from feline interference, I’m perched up on my computer chair with my stuff on the laptop (a crappy old desk just big enough for it and the printer underneath). Mads has never shown any interest in jumping up here.
::looks over shoulder in case of sudden attack of Feline Perversity is about to strike::
Apparently there was some sort of decree that only Knitting, crocheting or quilting is allowed as a fibre arts hobby in Canada. I mean, I can see why those crafts are popular here, but can we not branch out a bit?
You’re looking for very fine or rather heavy crochet yarn? I got a store about five blocks from me that sells only crochet stuff. Hooks too, some of them look better for tatting than crochet work.
I’d love to learn how to crochet patterns, but I can’t decipher the damn books and my attempts look like cat toys after a really bad day.
I’m not a Canuck, but I live in Minnesota (which is almost Canada… kind of). I have a friend who dips french fries in syrup, but I’m not sure if it’s a local thing or if I just have a weird friend.
A timely maple syrup conversation! Does it go well on porridge? (I’m told that our porridge is more like what USians would call creamed wheat than oatmeal. It’s not coarse.)
I’ve only ever had the fake kind of maple syrup, which was too sweet and artificial tasting, but I like maple candy so I’m curious if I’d like the real thing better. It sounds like people use it the way people use marmalade in the UK, ie. on savory as well as sweet things, especially savory breakfast things.
Maple syrup? You can make lollipops, add it to coffee, roast hams in it, pour it onto snow and eat it, maple syrup cheese cake(my personal fav) bake it with porkchops and yams, maple walnut cakes/muffins/donuts, flavor toffee.
Ooh, toffee sounds interesting.
Maple syrup definately goes on porridge! And oatmeal!
And yes, it used for savory dishes as well. You could bake apples or pears in syrup.
Um yeah, the real stuff is better by a mile. Not so saccharine. Also, you can get different grades. Most syrup is table syrup, but you can get syrups for baking/cooking (not so sweet) and candy making too.
@kitteh, the cat always finds a way. Always. Mine are known to sit behind the sofa quietly and then jump up behind me. which gives me a huge fright.
@pillowinhell, I am a frequent customer of Mary Maxim, Interweave, Annie’s Attic (the reason I got a US shipping address as they won’t mail international), Lionbrand, Redheart, and Herrschners. I’ve come to crochet from knitting, have knitted for > 30 years and only attempted a round DC cat blanket with left over oddments of yarn when I was about 15. There are two types of pattern: visual crochet, which shows you the piece in layout form, and typed pattern. Most patterns are the latter, which I am fine with as I am used to reading knitting patterns.
Some of the stuff I find difficult, especially Doris Chan patterns where she doesn’t do things like tell you the number of repeats in between ongoing shaping, so you really need to understand how a garment (for example) is supposed to look in a pattern so you can see where to do things. I am basically up to being able to do this now, but it’s taken around 2 years to get here.
My hooks from Mary Maxim arrived this week, so I can get onto the beaded crochet necklace I was wanting to do after Xmas, but didn’t have small enough hooks (http://downloads.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=86834&cat_id=1105). It’s done in 4 pieces, two per side, and I have not done any beaded crocheting before so this will be a new ability for me. But I have bought the Annie’s Attic video tutorial on beaded crochet.
If you want to learn crochet, there are a number of very good learning books out there. Lionbrand is also a good site for tips and patterns for a range of abilities. And, I swear, YouTube must have been invented for teaching people new crafting skills – and it’s all free. :)
Well, we all know that great Karl Max quote, “You have nothing to lose but your pants!”
Basically anything you might use sugar or honey for you can substitute maple syrup for.
Maple syrup milk.
I drizzle it over brownies, before putting them in the oven
OMG, yes, try the real stuff! Fake “maple” syrup bears about as much resemblance to the real thing as store-brand chocolate chips do to a Godiva truffle. The difference is like night and day (which was an endless source of annoyance to both me and my mother when I was a kid, because she couldn’t afford the real stuff and I wouldn’t eat the fake stuff).
LoL! And Marx should know! How many times did he habe to pawn his families clothes?
Misandric pants, huh? I wonder if Wooly Bumblebee will be wearing her finest tinfoil hat and bib when she returns the offending pants and no doubt goes on a paranoid rant to the salesperson.
Quickly, in the rough order the topics have been covered:
Add me to the sperm-count jeans assumption list!
JustACheeto, you sound like you’d fit right in! Get ready for your life to disappear into a vortex of refreshing to get silly jokes or recipes or cat stories or troll smackdowns.
Australia’s some sort of homeschooling mecca too, both for the religious nutjobs and the uber-left anarchist unschooling types. Not quite sure on the details.
Maple syrup is delicious but expensive and doesn’t work well with moustaches.
The combination of the cutesy voice and video editing with the batshit sentiment and sudden sweariness is really disturbing, too.
“Maple syrup is delicious but expensive and doesn’t work well with moustaches.”
I am so glad I finished that mouthful of tea before reading that statement.
I’ll have a look for maple syrup, then, though I have a horrid suspicion that Coles and Woolworths (only supermarkets near me) will only have fake garbage. First time I tried alleged maple syrup was at the Pancake Parlour some thirty years ago. I expected it to be a bit like golden syrup, but it was this thin, rather flavourless stuff. But eh, who’d expect Scientologists to care about getting maple syrup right?
Maple syrup + breakfast sausages = win.
I dunno if anyone else has said this (bleh, I’m doing an assignment which involves writing an article about 50 Shades of Grey and I can feel my brain cells dying as I examine my totally legal copy) but maple syrup fudge is tasty as all.