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Men’s Rights Activists: Most gullible people in the world, or most gullible people in the universe?

If you believe this, a career in Men's Rights Activism might be for you!

If you believe this, a career in Men’s Rights Activism might be for you!

So I was idly perusing Janet “JudgyBitch” Bloomfield’s Twitter yesterday, and I came across an alarming tweet. It seemed as though Bloomfield had somehow penetrated the 47 levels of security protecting the Feminist HIgh Council to discover incontrovertible evidence of Operation Wicked Succubus. You know, the feminist plan to eliminate all men (except for me).

Her followers were aghast:

jbkillmen1jbkillallmen2

And naturally one of them brought up #GamerGate.

jbkillallmen4

There were a few others, but you get the idea.

It never occurred to any of them to, you know, try to find out just who the bald man advocating killing all men was. Or who exactly he was talking to.

So I decided to do some serious investigative journalism to see what I could uncover. I typed out “‘eliminate men as a gender’ security” into a little known internet “search engine” called Google, and boldly clicked on the first result.

elimmen

This led me to a Tweet with a URL in it. Bravely, I clicked on that URL and found myself looking at a video of a presentation at something called Monitorama PDX 2014 — clearly the code name for one of the Feminist Conspiracy’s conventions.

I looked it up in Google and discovered a web page for the event, which had been held in May. It was described as an “An Open Source Monitoring Conference & Hackathon.”

Ah, clearly a clever Feminist code name.

And then I decided to look up the name of the speaker: James Mickens. Turns out the guy works at Microsoft, one of the companies at the center of the Misandrist Conspiracy. Mickens is also the author of a number of papers, with titles like “Pivot: Fast, Synchronous Mashup Isolation Using Generator Chains” and “Mugshot: Deterministic Capture and Replay for JavaScript Applications.”

Obviously, some high level feminist theorizing.

Then I decided to watch the video. And I was shocked!

Because it wasn’t a speech about killing all men after all. It wasn’t even a feminist speech. No, it seemed instead to be a highly technical talk about internet security issues, illustrated with a lot of silly slides. Like this:

 

mickensmapreduce

And this:

mickensindexkidcryingcookies

I must confess that I didn’t get the overwhelming majority of his jokes. But he audience seemed to find these slides, and much of what he said, hilarious. So if you ever need to hire a comedian who can joke about Synchronous Mashup Isolation Using Generator Chains, Mickens is your guy.

So where does the whole “kill all men” thing come from?

Well, I skipped ahead a bit in the video until I found a section in which Mickens talked about the dumb things people do that can undermine even the most sophisticated security setup.

His example: gullible, horny men who are tricked into “friending” hackers on Facebook posing as hot babes — even when there are pretty obvious indications that the hot babes aren’t really hot babes at all.

Things like: saying they graduated from Central University, even though there is no school by that name in the US, or spelling the name of their profession wrong.

 

mickensmary

These are all good clues, he said, that the hot babe you just friended on facebook was really this guy:

 

mickensmaryhacker

Given that men are regularly duped with simple tricks that play on their horniness and gullibility, Mickens joked, maybe the real goal for people trying to design secure systems should be the elimination of all men.

mickenseliminatemen

So that’s where the slide comes from.

And by the way, that whole bit of his killed — not as in “killed all men” but as in “got giant laughs from the mostly male audience.” Expecially the part about killing all men.

If you want to see the whole bit, starting with Mary and ending with “eliminate men as a gender,” it starts at around 20:40 in the video.

Men’s Rights Activists: more gullible than guys who friend Mary from Central University on Facebook.

NOTE TO EXTREMELY LITERAL-MINDED MRAS: That bit about the feminist plot to kill all men (except me) at the start of this post was a joke. Feminists don’t really intend to kill all men (except me).

Or do they?

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Posted on October 19, 2014, in #gamergate, a voice for men, antifeminism, antifeminist women, FemRAs, gullibility, judgybitch, MRA, oppressed men, post contains jokes, post contains sarcasm, straw feminists and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 56 Comments.

  1. Haha amazing.

    Obviously for a lot of them it’s just wilful confirmation bias.

  2. I’m actually more surprised that the picture was completely genuine, if out of context. I’m afraid that means this one may have some legs. Proving something is fake is one thing — proving something is out of context has very little effect on true believers.

  3. Even seeing the context might not actually stop them. They might say that saying that joke itself is misandric. And it would most certainly be worse if it were a woman saying it.

  4. hippodameia8527

    Universe, hands down.

  5. Well, this is quite interesting coming from a group of people who constantly accuse SJWs of taking things out of context. Apparently context doesn’t matter when you can accuse your opponents of something horrible instead.

  6. My first visit here, and it starts with a bang.

  7. He’s basically just saying what computer security people have been saying for decades – that nine out of ten times, the weakest link in a network security chain is in fact the people – and using a particular example (“hot chick” pics as bait) as an example.

    But I don’t expect that to stop the hordes of “MISANDRIST JOKE!” MRAs.

  8. That cow, she told me she went to School University.

  9. Policy of Madness

    Apparently context doesn’t matter when you can accuse your opponents of something horrible instead.

    “Opponents” in this case being security dudes from Microsoft. LOL

  10. Who cares about finding out who this person is and why he’s saying that? We must outrage! Grrrr! (or rather the peons get to outrage, JB will just sit there looking smug).

  11. Rather OT, but a big rugby playing mate of mine is educating himself about male privilege and is standing up to other guys around misogyny and I want to squee about it. I kind of want to point him at MRAs and watch them try and frame this front-row forward as a stooge/mangina.

  12. Just want to point out that eliminating gender (if that had been a sincere goal) doesn’t require killing anyone. It’s about tearing down social constructs like gender roles. Maybe guys feel pressure to perform a “horny, gullible teenager” act and tossing that gender role would make systems more secure… without any violence.

    Tor.com also has some recent columns about post-gender binary SciFi books. Those thought experiments are never violent either.

  13. Even seeing the context might not actually stop them. They might say that saying that joke itself is misandric. And it would most certainly be worse if it were a woman saying it.

    That’s pretty much what I was thinking. Not only is this misandric joke proof that men are oppressed because society finds it funny, it is proof that feminists are evil man haters because we didn’t see this joke and turn all our activism to stopping it.

  14. Um… how do you see a picture like that, and legitimately don’t question for even a moment whether it’s real/fake and where it came from? How completely obtuse does your worldview have to be to see that pic and be like “Oh, yea, that looks totally legit, feminists TOTALLY go around having conferences with each other, secretly plotting to kill all men, and LOOK AT THAT PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE!!”

  15. Aw hot damn David; abort the raid IRCs! Kill the chat log! Sound the klaxon ! We’ve been found out; our feminist networks aren’t secure! I knew that cat was lying when he told me he went to Central College! I should have never shared my login credentials with that pretty kitty!

  16. It’s stuff like this that makes disregard anything misters cite as a source.I don’t have the time to to do the legwork to deconstruct them or put them into their proper context. Good on you David for having the patience to do so.

  17. I wouldn’t say they’re gullible – more like they convince themselves these things are true so they can justify what they believe. If feminists want to kill all men then their hatred of feminists is justified so they don’t bother questioning or researching because they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on lmao.

  18. It was suspicious from the start but as a lonely man-hating feminist I just couldn’t resist his picture! But it was Janet Bloomfield all along!

  19. MRAs really mock themselves, most of the time.

  20. I bet the cat who hacked our feminist security mainframe lied about his military service record too. I can’t believe I fell for that!

    It was just so convincing that I can’t hold myself too responsible… Any feminist would have thought this cat was legit.

  21. Feminists don’t really intend to kill all men (except me).

    Or do they?

    It’s not feminists you have to look out for, David. It’s the Furrinati.

    http://www.trbimg.com/img-531955e4/turbine/wxin-lol-cats-picture-gallery-111009-049-altthumbnail

  22. M. the Social Justice Ranger

    Nah, I still think that the Tea “ATHEIST BLACK SUPREMACIST MUSLIM KENYAN MARTIAN REVERSE VAMPIRE BIRTH CERTIFICATE” Partiers are the most gullible, though the MRAs are certainly giving them a run for their money. =P

  23. ..uh…

    JB, PRing it up:

  24. How like them. For the next fund raiser, let’s sell them a bridge.

  25. JB, queen of PR. Oy.

    How ya doin, drmrsthemonarch? Haven’t seen you here for a while. :)

  26. Don’t you see? The fact that so many MRAs fell for it just shows that it was convincing, and therefore there’s something to it! The fact that the photo isn’t proof is all the proof we need!

    I don’t think the context would help. It basically matches what MRAs say about dudes all the time; that they are powerless against the feeeemaale’s wily sexiness and slaves to their sad boners. They’d probably think that eliminating men was offered as a legit solution to a real problem.

  27. Context is misandry, we know that.

  28. Ooh! An ableism and homophobia twofer! That’s the human rightsiest and public relationsiest thing I ‘er did see!

    My dad’s fiancée is in PR. I should tell her all about JB one day. She’s not into politics very much but I’d think she’d get a good laugh at all the PR fail.

  29. As a man currently being murdered by the feminist death squads, I can confirm that there is in fact no feminazi death squads. Their uniforms definitely do not have skulls on it.

    Could one of you hit Post Comment for me? Thanoi;aojd;oano4lo9

  30. The kicker is that these guys call women feminists liars when they receive threats and call men who voice their support mindless white knights who are only supporting them because they want positive feedback.

    Then they go and mindlessly support a woman out of pure loyalty who is an eager, joyous and enthusiastic liar who knowingly lies for shits and giggles and openly doesn’t care if anyone knows it.

  31. @ Merus – That is so a skull on my uniform. You just can’t see it for all the glitter and unicorn poop. Now, would you please stop squirming so much?

  32. @Merus
    Silly – we already knew they weren’t feminazi death squads. What do you think we all do with our spare time? Not going around not killing all men, that’s for sure.

  33. @grumpyoldnurse
    I guess your death squad has a different uniform to mine. Mine’s just covered in cat hair, not glitter.

  34. Welcome, ladymarchhare. I’d give you a welcome basket, but I’m bad at html. Someone will come along with one sooner or later.

  35. @ Kim – the unicorn poop dissolves the cat hair.

  36. Judgybitch: Not sure if elaborate Borat-style performance art or serious?

  37. Wow. Because PR is yelling slurs at people, and not the opposite like most people would think. I can feel my FEMINISMZ draining away. Yes, Janet, insult me more!

    …That makes me sound like I’m finding it sexy. I do not want to engage in BDSM with Janet Bloomfield. That is a horrible thought. I need brain bleach now.

    Eugh.

  38. Oh, and my death squad uniform has a rainbow. I’m part of the Bureau of Total Political Correctness. It’s not as interesting as it sounds, though. Enforcing the entire Adjective List, mostly. With my rainbow mace can. My icon is totally true-to-life. Except I can’t put my uniform on it for security reasons.

  39. @ andiexist – as requested, contrarian kitty brain bleach!

  40. No, but, you see, it’s a secret plot to get men used to tolerating jokes like that so that when Operation Penis Destroy is finally launched they’ll have been lulled into a false sense of security. But I’ve already said too much.

    (Crawls back into bunker)

  41. My uniform is mostly dog hair and duct tape. But I’m not a member of one of the fancy death squads, just a lowly scout. I tape bonbons onto my forage cap when I go undercover.

  42. ooooh, bonbon cap……

    Sorry about all the drool, folks!

  43. My death squad uniform is hand-knitted, but it’s like Kim’s, you can’t see that for all the cat hair.

    It doesn’t have a skull on it because I suck at intarsia knitting.

  44. Intarsia knitting: I suck at it too. For a really good skull motif, try duplicate stitch in a contrast colour.

  45. I just borrowed one of my daughter’s skeleton dolls. It glows in the dark!

  46. drmrsthemonarch1

    Hihi Kittehs! I’ve been living on Raw Story recently because embedded comments + gamergaters makes for all the lolz.

  47. Hey folks! Back from visiting family in Ontario’s Wine country. What did I miss? (reads posts).

    I didn’t buy enough wine for this…

  48. Here she is doubling down on the idea that Jimmy Savile’s victims were “whores,”

    a https://twitter.com/BloomfieldJanet/status/524021545111257088

    a https://twitter.com/BloomfieldJanet/status/524020135242121217

    And then there’s this, which doesn’t even make sense: https://twitter.com/BloomfieldJanet/status/524023478941274112

    And I think here she’s suggesting she wants to shoot me with a bow and arrow?

    a https://twitter.com/BloomfieldJanet/status/524021004054454273

  49. I love knitting, but my death squad uniform would honestly only be half done if I did it that way… I’d start that, and then halfway through start on a death squad cap, and then halfway through I’d start on gloves, and then halfway through… Yea, I have a lot of half finished knitting projects…

  50. Cor, you’re a braver soul than me, drmrsthemonarch! I just can’t with all the GG stuff now.

    What do you think of Raw Story’s new format? I took one look and went BLERGH.

  51. Well, how about that. For once, I agree with Janet Fucking Bloomfield about something. Comparing feminists to Nazis IS weak!

    As weak as the mind of one who would see a picture like that and NOT do any detective work to determine its provenance. Much less realize how very, very wrong a conclusion she has just jumped to.

    Man, what a Judgy Idiot.

  52. SittieKitty, sounds like my knitting collection (ie. bags full of odd yarn and half-done stuff).

    D’you use Ravelry at all?

  53. Ah, the schadenfreude, it burns! But i like it! :-)

  54. Creepy covert death threats from a deeply wretched person. Blech. Sorry you are in the line of fire, David.

  55. Buttercup Q. Skullpants

    I really resent the implication that my double major in Studies and Academics from Central University is worthless.

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