Kate Beaton confuses the Reddit Men's Rightsers

Slavey, show us how you can do better! I challenge you to write a better satire of female action heroes! 😀

I’m pretty sure that NWO’s alrdy done satire of us..

“Woman = good, Man = bad”

the problem w/ asking ppl like him to do satire is that they dun actually know what they’re satirizing, so it gets kinda amusing… like David’s alrdy shown the guy who thought he was making fun of feminists by essentially portraying us as over the top golddiggers xD We’ve seen another example with the guy who took an Onion satire of a female stereotype srsly… b/c it matches right up w/ his worldview… the problem is what they believe feminism is is alrdy this gross hilarious distortion.. that’s often not even based on feminism, but just a weird amalgam of stereotypes (golddigger, petty jealous vain woman, shrew wife, etc etc) xD

De-lurking, because this is just too rich! Honestly, I’d consider most of you here to be parodies of feminism! I’ve been reading through these comment threads and it’s just amazing to me that any of you, with a couple exceptions, could even consider yourselves feminists with a straight face. Now, I know that some of you have the self-awareness to at least say that you’re NOT feminists, but it still amazes me how many of you claim to be part of us when all you do is prostrate yourself to the patriarchy! There’s absolutely no checking of privilege going on, and as far as I can tell, you seem to care more about so-called “men’s rights” (don’t make me laugh, our society is all about men’s rights) than about the number of women who are raped and killed by their husbands, boyfriends and fathers every single day.

I’ve seen people concede on pretty much every point that the misogynists have pushed you on, and not only that, a lot of you seem almost apologetic about it! “I’m so sorry my lord, I’ll try to do better next time!” This is the state internet “fun” feminism has gotten to… first caring about the rights of men to mutilate their bodies and try to squeeze themselves into ridiculous high heeled shoes, and not just outright capitulation. Oh I’m so sorry Mr. Penis, I won’t trample upon your oppression! Women are being prostituted and forced to be literal sex slaves to their husbands, and as far as I can tell, to you pea-brains, the most pressing gender issue is helping some misogynist future-rapist with his height issues and falling all over yourselves to praise the delusional creations of a male fetishist playing at femininity. (and no, I’m not transphobic, I just don’t believe in supporting the oppressive fantasies of men who create synthetic female bodies to play at some sort of misogynist fetish).

And I think it’s pretty telling how “oh poor baby” you all are with abusive men who are mentioned or show up here with their faux sob stories rather than maybe, I don’t know… question their supposed stories of woe? Or be glad that they were taught a lesson now before they can abuse and rape more women in the future? Oh wait, that would be caring about the gender that’s ACTUALLY oppressed. I’m sorry, that’s not something you do here. I forgot.

I give a fuck about women, you just want to get fucked.

Hey, Feminist Mai, if you actually mean what you say, then why not actually be productive? I bet you’d get a better response if you called out privilege and internalized misogyny for specific instances where you saw it, rather than just some sort of nebulous ‘Yer Doin’ It WRONG!’ kind of rant. I mean, unless by “a male fetishist playing at femininity” you meant Ami. In that case, GFY. I’d be saying that even if Ami was a relative unknown here – Ami is who she is, and you can’t say, “I’m not transphobic” but then come up with that kind of line like that.

I give a fuck about women, you just want to get fucked.

You say that like you think the two are mutually exclusive….

Took you long enuf xD

Actually, rad fems don’t use the word kyriarchy v much. What about the menz was there, but I had to take that section out b/c David had issues w/ it xD Mansplaining was going to be used if any men actually y’know responded xD And flounce is an internet word and radfems dun tend to have the sense of humour to actually use it XDDD

You’re FAR too impatient xD Tho I’m glad I have a #1 fan XDDDD

In my defense, I am very sleepy right now! But it’s that kind of sleepy where you’re not quite tired enough to go to bed. So I will content myself with blog comments and looking at cat pictures until the Insomnia Fairy goes away.

Though “Feminist Mai” does have a fairly valid point about how many threads on this blog devolved into the MRAL Therapy Hour.

MRAL did have a knack for turning threads toward himself. As for the therapy… he’s a tortured soul, a bad boy that women naturally want to fix. 😛

As if I didn’t see it so many times in real life. Cheerful, normal guy = boring, zero interest. Brooding, wounded asshole = OMG SO DARK AND MYSTERIOUS AND SEXY

As for the therapy… he’s a tortured soul, a bad boy that women naturally want to fix

While I tried to give him advice, it was no less than I’d offer to any stranger on the Internet obviously having a bad time. But after the fourth or fifth dose of nasty hypocrisy, I started telling him off. As did, y’know, a lot of people here. He appears to have vanished when David put him on moderation, and I can’t say I miss his particular brand of angst.

BTW, Ion, did I miss you becoming a reasonable person? It’s been awhile since I read a comment of yours that was overtly trollish. Not complaining, just curious as to what you’re still doing here if not for random lulz. Even that comment about women liking brooding assholes was kind of halfhearted.

@ Ami: *hugs back* No problem – I live in West LA, so I’ve become really blase to LGBT folks. Not to mean that in a bad way, it’s just that I’ve met so many! “Oh, hai, you’re MtF? That’s cool; what kind of beer do you like?” So when I read transphobic stuff, especially by people who claim to be allies, I get REALLY pissy.

“he’s a tortured soul, a bad boy that women naturally want to fix.”

I felt kinda sorry for him after he wrote about how he felt about his looks, I have BDD and it cut very close. Then he went back to his old scary violent shit so I forgot about it.

I agree with Victoria von Syrus you haven’t been trolling lately, you want to be friends now?

Ami, I loved your radfem parody 😀

Ion is always so in a rush to prove to everybody he’s not fooled and how smart he is (and has no sense of humour xD ) xD

I honestly wasn’t thinking of ‘proving’ anything. I thought it was pretty obvious, I mean someone called “Feminist Mai” shows up out of nowhere with an angry rant? Right after Victoria’s challenge to NWO about writing a feminist satire?

As for ‘no sense of humour’, eh, it’s subjective. If you mean the brand of ‘humour’ employed by yourself, Bee, Kirby and a few other ‘regulars’ here, I would agree.

I never used the word “nice”. I said “cheerful, normal guy” versus “brooding asshole”. I don’t know about social stereotypes, those seem pretty self-explanatory to me…