You might assume that those Occupy Wall Street protests (and their various offshoots) you’ve seen so much little of on the news lately are all about, you know, Wall Street, and the economy, and the fact that the very people who got our economy into the mess it’s in are somehow all still richer (a lot richer) than you or me. But apparently that’s not it at all. Nope! Apparently it’s all about hating on the menz.
How so? Let us turn to the good fellows at The Spearhead for guidance. In a recent post titled Occupy Wall Street Is Just Another Vehicle For Misandry, the blogger known only as Pro Male/Anti-Feminist Tech (PMAFT for short) argues that the movement is overrun by dastardly “single mothers and other women demonstrating high levels of entitlement.” His proof: one lady he found posting her story on the We Are the 99 Percent blog who noted that she had “no job, 3 kids and cannot see a med … let the dudes pay my bills.”
You might assume that by “the dudes” the lady in question is referring to extremely rich dudes – you know, the 1 percent that the “we are the 99 percent” movement is focusing its attention on. But apparently PMAFT knows better than we do, declaring that
she is demanding men subsidize her, not rich men or billionaires (which would be questionable enough) but men in general.
Oh, but she’s not the only entitled princess on display on the 99 Percent blog. Here are two other women — chosen from hundreds of examples from the blog — that to PMAFT seem to epitomize the evils of female entitlement and man-hatred:
Imagine, women actually having the chutzpah to want medical insurance for young children! Blatant misandry at its worst!
The commenters whooped it up in typical Spearhead fashion. “Single mums want to fuck with John and expect Harry to support her and her kids,” complained Nico. “New-age gov-mediated cuckoldry.”
To the redoubtable Uncle Elmer, these women’s pleas were
symptomatic of the feminized educational system and media. Without a manly Patriarchy to call BS on a lot of these entitlement notions, we have several generations of women now sailing into the hard rock of reality. … nobody cares.
Finndistan, meanwhile, wrote a screed nearly as long as the OP, laying out his case against shoe-wearing single mothers. A condensed version:
So, single mom? Should’ve kept your legs closed… should’ve chosen a better man….
I am not in America, but my single friends who get laid by one of your friends once every blue moon are already paying for you and your friends shoes and bastards by the insane amount of taxes imposed on them with threat of imprisonment.
If these guys are the 1%; that makes you, the 99%, parasites….
You, found a dipsh%t welfare boy, made a baby, and we, the 1% as defined by you, who actually want to work and create something useful, not bastards, are getting screwed by the real 1% who steal from us to give to you, so you can buy shoes and create bastards.
As a man … more than one third of my earning … go[es] to feed your shoes and your bastards …
Single mom with shoes and bastards, bought and being payed for by my money.
Occupy Wallstreet just shows that the western man is the pinata of the western world. And then he dies.
This comment got 63 upvotes from the locals, but no shoes or bastards.
AfOR, not quite as longwinded, noted that he found the women’s pictures “hilarious,” adding:
Suck it down bitches.
If you blow me PROPERLY I’ll buy you a 99 cent burger.
This got 58 upvotes from the totally non-hateful readers of The Totally Non-Hateful Spearhead.
EDITED TO ADD:
Speaking of hateful, here’s a comment I somehow missed, from evilwhitemaleempire. Readers of the comments here will recognize him as a dickish dude who posts dickish comments here from time to time. But in this comment he really lets his misogynist flag fly. (TRIGGER WARNING FOR VIOLENT MISOGYNY) Referring to one of the women cited as “entitled” by PMAFT, who had noted that she has “no money to hire a lawyer so I can divorce my abusive husband,” evilshitemaleempire offered this advice:
Heh. If she’s telling the absolute truth about her life on that paper (questionable) then she needs to go back to that abusive husband and start doing some serious dick sucking.
And if he wants anal sex she’d better give it to ‘em.
At last count this comment had 16 upvotes and one downvote. Stay classy, Spearhead.
I’m still working on why people who take a “trust no one, every scientist is questionable” attitude will pick the biggest scam artists and crackpots when they decide who they will trust.
I can understand saying “I don’t believe everything I read,” but how do you get from there to “I don’t believe everything I read unless it makes no goddamn sense?”
I suppose some of it is because conventional science and history programs don’t do enough to stroke your ego and reassure you that you’re better than all the sheeple. Maybe we could change that.
“The pathetic mindless fools out there don’t know this–and they would never accept it–but disease can be treated with rigorously tested pharmaceuticals! Now that you know, you are among the chosen few.”
Bummer.
kirbywarp
That’s my skepticism you’re wearing liberal.
Take it off! It doesn’t belong to you or your kind.
Meller asked: How thoroughly has your body been cleansed of various toxins? Are you protected from ambient microwave and other electromagnetic radiation, and if so, how effective is your protection?
It used to be pretty good (I had a portable, flexible Faraday cage built into my duster; safe and secure, and I looked good) but it made it hard for people on the street to see my aura, and know what a loving husband I would make for a harem of sof fluffelly women, so I stopped.
Now I just wash the outside, wear a hat, eat what I choose and have several women who enjoy spending time with me.
HOW MODERN MEDICINE SAVED MY LIFE
by Kristin M.H.
When I was 19 I moved away from home to go to university. As a well-brought-up Catholic girl let loose on a big city, I promptly developed a taste for vodka and late nights.
Sometime in December of that year I got a cold and, because I was too fond of partying, didn’t look after myself. So it didn’t go away. Fast forward to New Year’s Day, when I woke up with a giant lump on the side of my neck.
It turned out that I have a branchial cleft cyst, a normally benign and invisible birth defect that some people have in their necks. They can, as mine did, get infected. Mine had abcessed rather enormously and required a 10-day hospital stay, broad-spectrum IV antibiotics, and surgery to be dealt with.
Without modern medicine, it is possible that my body would have fought off the infection naturally. It’s also possible that the abcess would have impinged on my airway and killed me. I’d rather not have found out the hard way. Plus the surgery left me with a rather cool scar about which one of my students, on noticing it, said “Were you bitten by a VAMPIRE?!”
So yeah, lots to complain about in the health care system (even in perfect socialist Canada) and Big Pharma, but I really, really doubt Kevin Trudeau could have cured my infected branchial cleft cyst. And if I had died when I was 19 I wouldn’t be here! And then how sad would you all be?
VACCINES AND FLOURIDE FOR ALL!
Kristin M. H.
Holly: it’s confirmation bias. They don’t trust, “x”, the scammer doesn’t trust “x”, ergo the scammer is more credible.
This is how the scam artist publishers get people. They rail about how evil publishing is, how it won’t publish books by authors no one knows, and only by using there more open attitude (i.e. anyone who will pay a few thousand dollars) will the sucker get published.
When what they need isn’t just the dream, but the time, effort, help, to refine the craft.
For “medicine” a goo line of patter, some charts, a fair bit of hokum, let’s look at Mellers idol:
Some people always ask me if all I say is true; how did “Aunt Millie” live to be 85? First, I say that I would like to offer my condolences for Aunt Millie’s premature death. It is sad to see someone die so young. You see, I believe that the human body, like all mammals, should live to be well over 100 years old. When you compare the life spans of virtually all mammals, they live well in excess of what would be the equivalent of 120 human years. ”
That’s clever, he doesn’t justify this, just states it. Never mind that the, “in human years” is a way of anthropomorphising our pets, and the “lifespan” being averaged for is 70. Let’s look at a wild mouse. They live, (if not eaten) an average of about a year and a half. Make them pets and they live between 2-3 years. So what’s the right multiplier?
Or cats. Feral cats live to between 4-6, “barn cats” live to between 6-10, and indoor pets are running 12-16 (averages).
Which is the cat living to 120?
To carry on (because there is an amazing amount of flim-flam here, and that Meller claims to believe it… wow.
Secondly, Aunt Millie lived the first half of her life where the amount of toxins being put into the body was a fraction of what it is today.
Right. If “Aunt Millie” died today, at 85, she was born in 1947. More second hand smoke. More generic pollutants in the water. Heavier use of pesticides on food. DDT used liberally, fewer curbs on atmospheric pollution. Fewer restraints on workplace chemicals. More carpeting, the use of formalins in plywoods and particle boards, cyanide treatments of woods to preserve them, etc.
I hear a lot about the alleged fact that we are living longer than ever before. This is categorically not true. Yes, it is true that people lie in nursing homes and hospital beds hooked up to life support devices that keep the physical body alive for years, but realistically these people are not living.
Subject change, and a non-answer. He doesn’t call that living, but he also doesn’t relate it to the population as a whole. He’s talking about, “what he hears about.”
The fact of the matter is a person 100 years old should be strong, flexible, full of life and energy, and have the physical capacity of what the average 40-year-old person has.
Why 40? Why not 20? Probably because his target audience is about 40 (how many 20 year olds have 1: the money, and 2: the sense of mortality, to throw it at a crackpot like him?). But he has no support for this, he just says it, and sails on to, It is amusing to me when you hear the American Medical Association classify someone in their 50s as being “older”, and someone in their 60s as being “old”. The most amazing part of this is that it is assumed that as you get older, it is “normal” to be on some type of medication. This simply is not true.
Which is another seamless subject change. None of the issues he brings up are more than that. He brings them up, says it shouldn’t be that way because some other things is also what he believes.
But if you just read/listen to it there is a lot of assurance and it ends on the up note that, “It doesn’t have to be that way.”
All it takes is the least bit of doubt/fear to get that sort of con into someone’s head. They know someone who was on life support (or saw it on the news, or in a drama), or they saw a friend who takes a number of medicines, or they have horrible medical insurance.
These charlatans, with their specious gobblydegook (Ph = potential for health; which is a clever dodge to avoid the facts of how the body regulates actual Ph from being used against him in court), prey on fear, and uncertainty, more than they do on ignorance.
The level of ignorance in the world is just a convenient factor in how little they have to work to find marks. It also means they can soak a lot of marks for a little bit, and keep the risk of tar and feathers to a minimum.
EWME: kirbywarp
That’s my skepticism you’re wearing liberal.
Take it off! It doesn’t belong to you or your kind.
What’s the matter? It’s not as if you were using it.
Oh the skepticism dozens. I can’t say I miss this.
Matthew Cline, that was a beautiful takedown. *applause for science*
DKM, you of all people ought to know that radiation has beneficial health effects. Radiation decomposes complex molecules into simpler ones, releasing healthful life energy. To benefit from these effects, get a uranium-glazed (fiestaware) bowl and drink water out of it at least twice a day. You’ll feel it in no time.
Source
@katz: It gives my skin that healthful glow!
Just look at what radiation did for Dr. Banner.
Youall BELIEVE that gender differences are negligable if not nonexistant, the sexes are identical and interchangeable, and that no differences in outcome will occur if women are substituted for men.
You people, as far as I can see, imagine gender differences and inequalities to be solely the result of faulty social institutions, and the way males and females evolved over the past 600 million years or so has NOTHING to do with it. Some of you imagine that women soldiers would be better than men…
Every time that I cite characteristics–favorable ones–more prevalent among women than among men, and discuss their desirability, I am denounced for denying their ‘equality” here!
I point out, contrary to your delusions, that men and women are NOT equal, are NOT identical and are NOT interchangable, and it would be far from ideal even if they were, and I am the crazy one?
Yet I am the one who is “deluded”? Youall must be KIDDING! Look in the nearest mirror!
If men and women were so different, you wouldn’t have to tell us to be different.
I’ve never had to tell the cat to stop barking and start meowing, you know? Natural differences, by definition, don’t need to be enforced.
DKM
*You all*
Please, we know already that you are an idiotic anti-semite with racist and misogynistic slavery/genocide dreams, but the space bar is not that hard to use. Even by a disgusting creature such as yourself.
With, Boehner, however, it just turned him orange instead of green.
Er, ignore that first comma.
Ignore it, I say!
I don’t know if you’ve seen the latest post… ;D
But yeah, if women were naturally submissive and docile and stupid then men wouldn’t constantly have to beat the crap out of us and demean and exclude us on a regular basis to make us act like it. Women wouldn’t have started excelling in school upon being allowed entry, if we were all naturally stupid. Women wouldn’t be constantly fighting and rebelling if we were naturally docile. Feminism wouldn’t exist if no women naturally wanted to be free and equal.
DKM, I’ve never seen anyone here saying that women would be better soldiers than men. I have seen people saying that women can be as good as men. There’s a difference between those statements, you just seem to be unable to grasp it.
Shorter DKM: I like women submissive and biddable, therefore every single man, everywhere wants women exactly like that, therefore loving submission is BIOLOGICAL DESTINY!
Hey, DKM, aren’t you the one constantly telling women to take a tranquilizer? Aren’t they made by EVIL PHARMA and therefore disruptive to our meridians? Or something?
Meller, you “point out” that men and women naturally and inescapably relegated to specific spheres, but offer no actual proof that this the case. And you say that we’re the ones taking things on faith? What a joke.
Favorable characteristics David K. Meller has provided as being more prevalent among women than among men include: Being soft and docile, wearing feminine clothes, and cooking, child-rearing (although I believe he later added the caveat that men are superior at both; they just don’t wanna), and some kind of hazy mention of other pleasant and accommodating things that women could achieve with their time if they weren’t being so bitchy and mannish.
I can’t say this about every man, and I certainly wouldn’t say this about men in general, but David K. Meller: You are not my equal.
They’re socialized into it.
In assuming “trust no one, everything is questionable,” they have already made a commitment to a loose group of attitudes, thoughts, and social movements that take an oppositional stance to “mainstream thought,” whatever it might be. Although these various groups seem to have little in common with each other at first glance (far left anti-vaccine peacenick hippies versus, say, neo-Nazis), they have a rejection of the mainstream in common and, for that reason, are more likely to listen to each other than to the Establishment. Members of these groups are also likely, if they leave one of these groups, not to go back to the mainstream, but to another fringe group, even one with seemingly opposed beliefs.
“I point out, contrary to your delusions, that brunettes and redheads are NOT equal, are NOT identical and are NOT interchangable, and it would be far from ideal even if they were, and I am the crazy one?”
“I point out, contrary to your delusions, that people who like vanilla ice cream and people who like chocolate ice cream are NOT equal, are NOT identical and are NOT interchangable, and it would be far from ideal even if they were, and I am the crazy one?”
“I point out, contrary to your delusions, that tall people and short people are NOT equal, are NOT identical and are NOT interchangable, and it would be far from ideal even if they were, and I am the crazy one?”