The last time we checked in on Justin, who blogs at The Truth Shall Set You Free, he was making some extremely creepy arguments about age of consent laws, which he feels are too harsh towards statutory rapists and not harsh enough on their victims. (Seriously.)
In his latest post, Justin recommends that readers check out a discussion on another website that he thinks his Men’s Rights buddies are handily winning. That in itself isn’t particularly notable. It’s the way he does it that caught my attention:
The comment section following the article is a laugh riot. If you like to watch intellectual child abuse, that is, as the men’s rights guys slap around the idiot feminists.
Yep, he’s comparing feminists to victims of child abuse, and Men’s Rightsers to the abusers. And declaring this “abuse” to be a regular “laugh riot.”
That’s a pretty, well, revealing way to put it, Justin. A bit more revealing than perhaps you meant it to be.
MRAs often resort to violent imagery when talking about debates they have with feminists, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen one compare his allies to child abusers, and mean that as e a compliment.
Lots of “make me a sammich”, “Lol wimminz suckz0rs”, and “Your irrational!!1”. Yep. Toes sweeping the field.
Totes*, that is.
Also, NWOSlave is over there. So. There’s also that.
Oh, a continuation of the meme that men in modern Western society are exactly the same as Holocaust victims and slaves. And he thinks feminists are the children.
What kind of sick, sad fuck do you have to be to not only think this is okay for you to think, in private, but that this is okay for you to spout in public? Oh, never mind, NWO is over there. Question answered.
The infestation of trolls on that thread is really impressive. Who knew mens rightsers read The Frisky?
Guys, guys! Be respectful. Calling women poopheads on the Internet like marching on Washington for these guys. Everytime a woman gets called a poophead on the Internet, it’s MRA history in the making.
Also, I think part of the problem here is that MRAs (at least some of them) see “feminist” as this weird species, this extremely delineated subculture, a political party with a cohesive internal structure and agreed-upon aims, rather than in the sense of “everyone who thinks women are human is a bit of a feminist.”
So “raising a son to be feminist” means a totally different thing to them than it does to us.
NWO has another space besides here he hasn’t been banned from?
The “Share on Google Plus” option doesn’t seem to work for me. I can add a +1, but when I try to share, the box vanishes after I move my cursor to it.
hellkell: Evidently. And he’s being his usual charming self.
Kathleen: that I don’t doubt.
I will be raising my son to be a feminist. That is to treat to women like everybody else–with respect, and a bit kindness if you can manage it. I will teach him that men and women are not exactly alike, but more alike than not. I will teach him that while men and women are at times not equally as good at everything, that we mostly are and in the end balance each other out nicely.
If that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Also they get a little bit of a boner.
NWO must get tired from all that cutting and pasting.
David, where does NWO’s IP originate from? I’m just curious.
The next time you think men have it easier than women in our society, think of this:
Why is it that women complain when men leave the toilet seat up, but men never complain when women leave the toilet seat down?
Okay, I laughed.
NWO must get tired from all that cutting and pasting.
I know! They got the exact same rant we did! And here I thought we had something special, NWO… sniff…
And yeah, I can see how the MRAs are totally winning the debate on that thread, with these killer arguments:
1. You’re sexist for noticing sexism!
2. I’ll raise my imaginary child to hate women, so there!
3. I want to punch you in the face.
4. Make me a sammich woman HUR HUR HUR
…and that’s about where I gave up reading the comments.
There’s nothing like pouring hatred on women to convince women that nobody hates them.
So tell me again about the reasonable, rational MRAs? Who are nonviolent?
I do believe I hear crickets at this time.
Also, NWOSlave is over there. So. There’s also that.
Wait…. I thought he was telling us the reason he is absent from manboobz is the hellishly long working hours he puts in.
I feel so betrayed.
So…child abuser = good thing? Or a good thing when it is a feminist child? I’m confused.
Once again, if MRAs cared about anything other than woman-bashing, they might stop to notice that, HEY! BOYS can be victims of child abuse too! If MRAs want to set up funds to help men and boys who were/are victims of child abuse, I’d say go for it! At least there’s some help and good being done.
Shit, I’ll donate to that, even if it specifically says that it won’t help women and girls.
David, where does NWO’s IP originate from? I’m just curious.
Because all the really horrible MRAs are Amanda Marcotte in disguise,
And laughed alone. WTF?
MRAL, this is pretty silly, but I went and checked the IPs and NWO has posted from various places in the US that are not where Amanda Marcotte lives.