Hark, a vagrant, as I may have noted many times already, is pretty much the most hilarious comic in the world at the moment. So recently the comic’s creator Kate Beaton got together with some of her cartoonist pals and did a bunch of cartoons featuring a gang of superheroines called the “STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS.”
Someone linked to them in Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit. Take a look at the comments. The cartoons seem to have, well, confused the Men’s Rightsers just a little bit.
I live in the UK (Ion’s in Scotland right?). I didn’t think saying ‘veggies’ was American =/
Thankyou for hugs Ami, many back to you 🙂
David, I actually think Megan Fox is pretty cool. I loved the way she talked really frankly about what a sexist asshole Michael Bay was to her, and she has said some really important stuff about bodily autonomy.
Wow, @Ion is going for the old “WAAAH GIRLS- EVEN FUGLY GIRLSS!! ONLY LIKE JERKS” complaint. That’s the best he’s got? Really?
What @Bee said is accurate, that particular whinge is just garbage ‘nice guys’ use to make themselves feel better about women being able to see through their false “nice” exterior.
I have known lots of genuinely nice guys who have female partners. My anecdotal evidence trumps Ion’s TVtropes page.
TVtropes….. LOL!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJQqUN2buE
….MRAs posting Kate Beaton, meanwhile, is HILARIOUS!
But she walked right past that poor boy with the flower!
Yeah, maybe she was as bad example.
Er, Megan Fox did.
Ion: Awfully widespread for just a myth, though isn’t it? Likes Scots are all cheap? Or back men have huge penes? Or Jews are all moneygrubbing?
I mean those are all widespread beliefs, so they must be true.
http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx134/ami_angelwings/Magyc%20Cards/KrausersSpreadsheet.jpg
new card! 😀
@Laura yeah o_o I have SO many friends in the UK and Australia xD and they all talk pretty much the same.. xD
Ion, you’re aware that lots of men are attracted to women who are jerky awful assholes? (I mean, Megan Fox is apparently a bit of a snooty bitch, and that doesn’t stop a lot of guys (and probably even some lesbians) from obsessing over her.) Also, plenty of gay men are attracted to broody dickbags.
No demographic group has a monopoly on poor romantic/sexual judgement.
True, but according to commenters here, that just doesn’t happen to women! And if it does, it’s because the asshole actually has a heart of gold. And nice guys are always monsters on the inside. Or something.
Trollin’ MRAs: wow, hostile much? did I hit a nerve? I’ll take a guess and say you weren’t invited to many parties…
Not all fantasy is aspirational. I love reading Stephen Kind novels but I wouldn’t want to live there. Why would romance-based media be any different?
Ion: Awfully widespread for just a myth, though isn’t it? Likes Scots are all cheap? Or back men have huge penes? Or Jews are all moneygrubbing?
I mean those are all widespread beliefs, so they must be true.
Well, they had to start from something, didn’t they? Why do some stereotypes endure and spread but not others? Couldn’t there be a grain of truth in them?
OMG, isn’t that the Onion article that big thinker Marky Mark took as absolutely serious?
http://coedmagazine.com/2009/05/08/10-megan-fox-quotes-that-will-make-you-go-hmmm/
Oh yeah, Megan Fox definitely sounds like a catch.
When I played Dragon Age II, I had my PC get into a relationship with Anders, which would be about the worst idea ever in real life – but it’s kind of cool in a video game. ‘Cause there’s a difference between fantasy and reality. In fantasy, people like to think they are so unabashedly awesome and caring and powerful that they can magically heal people’s issues and angst – like the male fantasy of rescuing a damsel in distress and then having her love you forevers. In reality, someone usually ends up in the ER and someone else ends up in jail.
Yes, Ion, it is true that all widespread stereotypes have a grain of truth to them. Like the one that Asian women have sideways vaginas? Partially true. They are actually at a 45 degree angle.
Pam: well, it’s at least as serious as the xkcd comic, isn’t it? Funny how feminists and white-knights always pull out the comic, though, but never talk about the article except to dismiss it.
(sorry about the multiple posts, a lot of people keep replying to this stuff.)
Like the stereotype of all men being “pigs”? But that is just a myth, isn’t it?
David: I’ve never heard of that. That’s just stupid though, and easily proven wrong. Others, not so much.
Pam: eh, not really. After living in campus dorm for 2 years I can definitely see how it started..
Actually I am dating a really nice guy-as in an actual kindhearted good person.
But I am way too attracted to a “bad boy.” Of course badboy is also nice, charming, smart, talented, good looking, exactly as fat as I like them, sensible, responsible, caring, able to work, does work, really cool parents to deal with and all.
Why is he a bad boy? He is a Republican!
Anyway, Ion-your female friend was nice and you like her as a person and all that but she ignored the chubby guy because he was not what she found attractive in his personality? It seems that she had no issues with the weight-she had issues with him not being strong/dominating. Are nice females not allowed to have preferences? You yourself admitted no one knew this strong/dominating type was actually an abuser from the get go-are you saying we should start assuming any guy like that is abusive? Now that would be misandrist and quite frankly, wrong.
Did the chubby guy ever even talk to her about his feelings? Or did he just do the stereotypical thing of standing at the side and never ever letting her know how he feels but get mad she dates all these other guys? Since when are women supposed to be mindreaders?
True, but according to commenters here, that just doesn’t happen to women! And if it does, it’s because the asshole actually has a heart of gold. And nice guys are always monsters on the inside. Or something.
Yus that is exactly what ppl here have been saying. xDDD
“Cunning and able to adapt” Check on that one, if I do say so myself.
“Cynical” At times.
“Disrespectful of rank and privilege” Yes, to a very high degree
“Emotionally conflicted, bipolar, or moody” Occasionally
“Having a distaste for social institutions and norms” Yes
“Having a troubled past or suffering from an unnamed crime” Troubled past? Check
“Intelligent and perceptive” Intelligent, okay. Perceptive, not when it comes to humans socializing.
“Jaded, world-weary” Yes
“Mysterious, magnetic and charismatic” Idk if I am mysterious, not sure I would count as magnetic or charismatic
“Seductive and sexually attractive” Hmmm, I suppose not.
“Self-critical and introspective” Yes.
“Self-destructive” Not so often anymore.
“Socially and sexually dominant” Generally, yes.
“Sophisticated and educated” I am educated, but probably not sophisticated.
“Struggling with integrity” Not so much.
“Treated as an exile, outcast, or outlaw” Yes, you might be amazed how difficult it is for me not to break the law at certain times if I spend long periods of time in a public space (using the “wrong” restroom is a misdemeanor, going into the women’s when it seems like I am being read as a guy is risky).
OMG, Ami was right (as usual), I am a bad boy! But, wait, I have never abused any of my partners and am really strict about getting affirimitive consent! Does that mean that bad boys are not automatically abusers? Also, what do you call it when two bad boys get together (Ianto and Jack Harkness both have several of the above characteristics, for example)? Unless the unnamed crime is an act of violence (particularly an act of violence against a partner), it does look like someone could meet ever single one of these and not be an abuser or violent. Also, bad boys cannot be sociopaths if they meet the “struggling with integrity” or “self-critical and introspective” criteria.
I forgot about all those quotes! I think Megan Fox may be … well, I’ll just let Boxxy here explain:
http://ants.planet.ee/trap/boxxy-trolling.gif
I think Ami Was Right needs to be a t-shirt xD Or a bumper sticker XD
You’re not referring to just general slovenliness, are you? Because when I’ve heard that phrase stated (and when I’ve heard it, it’s most often been uttered by men), that’s not quite the subject of which they were speaking.
Megan Fox is my inspiration in life. xD