Do you remember the Conscious Men and “Dear Woman,” their little video manifesto/apology to women? If not, please go read my post on them and/or watch at least a minute or two of their creepy, cringeworthy video – you may not be able to take much more. Then watch this: Will Ferrell’s spot-on parody of their video.
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Here’s the original “Dear Woman” video:
Spearhafoc, I believe the drug-addled children of today have a saying: “Die In A Fire”.
“aMiRA is Ami, parodying MRA trolls.”
hahahaha
Forgot to mention: there were a couple of posts from new people that got held up in moderation; they’re up now, and worth scrolling up to read.
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or should I say…
XD
No, you should not.
ah ha…
Sorry, Marie’s comment wasn’t showing up yet when I posted or I would have acknowledged the points she made. Thanks Marie.
@Fuck MRAs et al
Having watched both the parody and the original, I have to say two things. First, the beginning was played just a bit too straight, and I did get the feeling that it was just mimicking, rather than parodying.
Then it got to the point where the two main guys are staring sideways at the middle guy, and Ferrell popping up in the mirror. XD I too got the feeling that the stuff about female bodies was more about poking fun at the orignal’s creepy references to women’s bodies (in fact, I remember something subtle about trimming and shaving in the orignal as well). So, more funny than creepy in my vote.
There’s nothing wrong with playing it straight if you show that it’s not just a copy but that you rly do understand the mindset of the ppl you’re parodying xD
The thing is that most of the time any MRA attempt to parody feminism just falls flat cuz they never read a thing feminists actually write (or it doesn’t stick in their brains xD ) and they just go “LALALA I LOVE BIG BLACK COCK AND I’M GONNA GO BACK TO MY APARTMENT AND PAINT MY NAILS WHILE MY CUCKOLDED BETA MALE HUSBAND TENDS TO MY MANY CHILDREN FROM ALPHA MALES” xD
also a lot of them seem incredibly humourless -_-;;;
Now Ami’s Magic (Magyk?) the gendering is inho a brilliant parody not only of the card game but most importantly MRA rhetoric.
That’s probably not only because of her talent and wit but (my theory) that successful parodies are more often done from the bottom up. To avoid blathering on, I don’t trust Will Ferrell who has made his living from portraying sexist and misogynistic twits to parody sexism.
And awww TY Ithiliana, that’s rly… awesome praise :] esp since it’s from you and I respect you like woah :3
(oh and if you didn’t see it before, I said that you can ttlly use the cards to show others w/ if you want!)
Yeah, I agree with Kirbywarp all over. High five!
I definitely respect what other people are saying about it not being totally clear where some of it was coming from. If you think, Oh, now they’re just playing into cultural stereotypes for a laff, it’s definitely not funny. But for whatever reason I just kept seeing it as straight-up making fun of the creepy, creepy original video. I dunno. I’m kinda embarrassed to say this now, but I laughed a lot.
I am half tempted to re-watch the original to look for shaving references.
But only half. Those guys are pretty smarmy.
Ami, here’s another response to your cards that is, well, just take a look:
http://manboobz.com/2011/06/22/arms-and-the-mens-rights-movement/comment-page-6/#comment-32694
Ami: I did see your permission, but I’ve been waiting because so many more are being done, and I wanted to feature them all!
And you’re welcome–I try to call ’em as I sees ’em! and I swear the next time I see a good conference in my field in toronto I am so applying–I’ve been there once before and OMG so cool, but also want to try to meet you!
Jesus christ, I’ve never been in one of your comment threads. I didn’t realize what kind of exciting non-sequiter meltdowns were happening here — this is like all my favorite moments on the city bus in text form.
@Marie:
We tend to entertain quite a few trolls here, exciting non-sequiter meltdowns are not uncommon. I think you’ll enjoy yourself. 😀
@David it took forever for me to figure out where he was referring to me xD (and was that a threat to do us violence at the end? o_O )
Angel cards xD Also yeah… they’re TTLLY like tarot cards! xD
He sounds a lot like the parents groups who are frightened that Magic Cards and DnD are turning their kids to satanism or something xD
(also my cards are HATEFUL now too xD )
http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx134/ami_angelwings/Magyc%20Cards/CorporateLesbianism.jpg
Here’s a new card btw! :3 After a concept AWS introduced to us last night xD
Marie, the biggest non-sequiter meltdown at the moment is going on here:
http://manboobz.com/2011/06/24/career-women-a-crime-against-nature/
You may want to scroll back a couple of pages to see AWS — which I believe stands for American (or possibly All) Women Suck — in all his glory.
Enjoy!
Oh THAT’S what it stands for? xD
Ami — You have to do a card for the corporate blowjobs!
Oh right xD I’ll need to figure out how to do it w/o having an X rated picture xD
Although, after laughing through that whole crazy thread, I feel kind of bad about picking on AWS. He seems like he might have serious mental problems even by MRA standards. His conspiracy theories don’t even make borderline sense, although I like the notion of sadists apparently being some kind organized political party. And I appreciate his pro-green-energy stance.
Wow, so if AWS stands for All/American women suck, then I can get totes recursive by saying: AWS SUCKS!*
maybe it stands for Ami Women Suck xD
@Shaenon we should encourage them w/ the clean energy thing :3 take it where we can get it :] he’s prolly thinking he’s tricked US into helping HIM xD