I’m pretty sure Average Man is a parody account from a few of their tweets. It is hard to tell with many of the seemingly sincere pro-masculism accounts, though: Poe’s Law in action.

The sad thing is that the world could really use a sincere masculist movement. But in order to be sincere, it would have to work arm in arm with feminism, and the very thought causes MRAs to become incoherent with rage.

“i love when men mock masculinity! we’re so close to eliminating it!! pretty soon, we’re all going to be females!! so glad all these men are doing the dirty work and eliminating themselves off the planet ”

That IS a great parody!

“bro,” if men are being killed off in wars, it’s not women that are sending them there. If war isn’t what you’re referring to, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

And box is sure civilisation will crash and burn because people with vaginas can vote – and that’s real too.

I saw a few of Average Man’s earlier tweets, like the one about it being illegal for men to abdicate parental responsibility, which convinced me it was a Poe, but looking at their later tweets just now convinces me they’re for real. That’s way too much playing it with a straight face.

Anyway, any men 4 gather II go 4 bear? We go 4 bear l8r. Men r doers.

All of you using “and that’s real” has made my night, and that’s real.

The guy who created the entire thing admitted that it was an experiment to see how quickly he could cause a dispute on Twitter. If you ask me he did pretty well

https://twitter.com/INeedMasculism

Karalora – I actually agree! When I first heard about the Men’s Rights Movement, I remember thinking “oh yeah, that seems like a really good idea”, because (as many people here have noted before), there are actual serious issues facing men in our society – the way the criminal justice system treats men of color comes to mind (not to say racism in that system doesn’t affect women of color also, but there’s a particularly noxious brand of criminalization and fearmongering about, say, black men), as do some actual issues with family courts, or the way men are discouraged from getting help for mental health issues or dismissed and ridiculed when they are victims of abuse… at the time I first heard the term MRM, I actually had two male friends who were dealing with some pretty awfully biased stuff regarding parental custody*.

Alas, my first reaction of “sounds like a good idea” evaporated pretty quickly as soon as encountered the actual MRM as it exists right now, with all its delightful frothing misogyny and obsession with their boners and resentment of female emancipation in lieu of actual relevant issues.

Many other have also pointed out that many of the men’s issues I outlined above are actually best addressed by feminism, because they are outgrowths of toxic concepts about men derived from traditional gender roles. I would still not have a problem with a movement specifically dedicated to focusing on issues that affect men (whether you call it masculism or whatever), and it fact can see a good argument for there being a need for that. But any such movement that sees itself as somehow an antithesis to feminism (instead of a logical complement), or considers feminism its nemesis (instead of its ally)? Yikes.

*Note, neither of those friends took that as some jumping-off point for descending into misogyny. It’s possible to deal with discrimination from the courts and not somehow turn that into “and that’s why all women are terrible and feminism is evil!”

I’d give him some slack. India probably uses the british system of “marks, where the US would say “credit”.

I wonder if Virag read the misadventures of Tom Martin before he posted about misplaced bum syndrome?

Hey Sgt Grumbles, your name is coming up as your hummis1349 identity. Might want to fix that so people know it’s you.

Though yeah, I don’t see the benefit of a panty-free world at all. For one thing, it would make menstruation a damn sight messier (not all women can use tampons).

I read this to my roommate and we can’t stop laughing. He means discussing only one, right? Unless he thinks society is “disgusting on” all of men and he is therefore entitled to be disgusting to women?

Actually, I read that one literally, like your second explanation. “Disgusting on” would be an extreme version of hatin’ on, like you might hear in a hip-hop / rap lyric, and I would guess that the sort of person who would end a comment with “and that’s real” probably listens to a lot of hip-hop.

It’s also one of those things where the grammatically correct way of saying it ends up being more complex, so if English is your second language, you might end up saying “disgusting on” rather than, say, “is openly and vocally disgusted by” to get your point across, such as it is. So one might independently come up with both “disgusting on” and “and that’s real” independently of their evolution in the urban vernacular.

Non-standard grammar is the least of their problems, really; it’s their ideas that are odious, after all.