Men’s Rights activists are the only ones asking these tough questions about the recent threats against Anita Sarkeesian and other outspoken women in gaming.
1) Why isn’t everyone thanking Men’s Rights Activists for trying to keep women out of gaming?
2) Why isn’t anyone focusing on who would be the real victims of violence against Sarkeesian — teh menz?
3) Why are you hitting yourself?
@arisiacrystal @Spacekatgal @femfreq @nrrrdcore You should consider not provoking people into hating you. Then they won't send hate mail.
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) October 13, 2014
4) Why aren’t we fighting the real enemy — feminist English majors?
H/T — Cloudiah, Ami Angelwings
Oops I forgot to close my i tag. And *juvenile
They are awful and ridiculous…like giant toddlers deliberately breaking their toys, only their toys are people.
1) Note the handle: DaNiceguy. But but but — you guessed it — he’s a Nice Guy™! :p As for “safe spaces for men” (read: from women), as The Arbourist put it above, traditionally that was all of society, all of it without exception. In some especially conservative places (the Islamic world is where everybody usually looks; think of the absolute monarchies in Arabia), it still is.
Oh, and MRAs (shut up, Woody, and GYOW, now!), I’m not thanking you for keeping women out of gaming, I’m blaming you and supporting the women who fight back against your persecution campaign.
2) A crushing setback for “men” if by “men” you only mean MRAs, PUAs, and other “alphas”, we “betas” and “manginas” being of course defined as unmen.
3) Memo to @fidelbogen: I’m not provoking you into hating me, I’m taking for granted you always did. After all, @GlennBeck and @RushLimbaugh didn’t block me for nothing.
4) You have to remember that for US conservatives, good English skills mean you’re part of the conspiracy against America. I’ve been reading stories online about how homeschool curricula are deliberately neglecting English proficiency so conservative parents’ kids won’t grow up to be evil liberals who sound like Yankee city slickers. The ideal American language would, by that standard, be the Unknown Tongue spoken only in Pentecostal churches.
I’m sure Jordan Owen agrees that The Sarkeesian’s complete sentences are proof that she’s an agent of the Hypnotoad. Complete sentences are hypnotic, after all, or at least they hypnotize MRAs…
I was severely disappointed to discover that in French (and German: Dusche) that word is a completely innocent word for “shower” in the bathtub or locker-room sense. It was the Mad Men who twisted the meaning into “vaginal wash”, for a client of course (Summer’s Eve brand, IIRC made by Procter & Gamble), to seduce suburban housewives with sexy French branding to go with their capitalism-induced body anxiety. Hence the “douchebag” is the resultant waste product, and inevitably it got the same secondary meaning as “scumbag” (slang term for a used condom).
Proud of the fact that he has bad grammar, probably by extension did poorly in college. Probably a jock on scholarship, passed because he’s a sports star. It’s teh intellectual elites like English majors ruining things for teh mens.
As a feminist who majored in English Lit, I can tell you that Dudebro #4 would never have hacked it for one day at my university. Stupidity was not rewarded there, even if it came with a penis.
@Dennis Jernberg, Huh, I had no idea that’s where scumbag came from!
Douches aren’t totally evil, a mild vinegar-based douche is a natural cure that can do wonders for a yeast infection. But generally, yes, those you buy in any drugstore tend towards the body-shaming variety.
Wah? Why on earth would you purposely try to hamper your children’s language skills? This is also weird given that the majority of conservative folks I’ve met are big into “they should learn the language” type thinking regarding immigrants. Some of the more extreme varieties argue against ESL.
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Note to self: use some of this rage for a future post…