The National Coalition For Men – formerly the National Coalition of Free Men – describes itself as “the oldest Men’s Rights organization in North America.” It has been around, in some form or another, since 1977. The group has a board of advisors, which includes academics and mental health professionals and bestselling author Warren Farrell. It has a number of local chapters. Its website is professional-looking; they even have an elegant little logo.
The group appears, at first glance, to be a real and reasonable advocacy group.
But it doesn’t take long to find evidence that the group is infected with the same hateful extremism that is endemic in the Men’s Rights movement.
Take this bizarre and creepy image – and its equally bizarre and creepy caption – that I found illustrating a recent press release about Senator Patrick Leahy and the Violence Against Women Act.
As far as I can figure it, the Joker is supposed to represent Leahy’s supposed feminist puppetmasters; regardless, it is a jarring image depicting violence against an elected official as somehow humorous.
The article (picture and all) has gotten 14 Facebook “likes” and no comments; evidently none of the MRAs reading the article were bothered enough by the illustration to publicly challenge it.
How exactly does posting a picture of the Joker threatening an elected official with a knife advance the cause of Men’s Rights?
Do the group’s advisors — including Warren Farrell and well-known domestic violence researcher Martin Fiebert — know that the group’s website features this repugnant image? Do they care?
I would encourage readers here to investigate the NCFM site in more detail. I wonder what other evidence of hate might be found. (If you do find more, please make screenshots, and post what you find in the comments below, with a link to the page on NCFM’s website.)
EDITED: I originally referred to the images as photoshopped, but evidently it’s from The Dark Knight. Oops. Corrected.
FUCKING HELL, NWO, it’s spelled ‘innocence.’ Lord and Lady, that black hole just keeps getting bigger, doesn’t it?
I think NWO wants desperately out of this thread, but he can’t just flounce like he usually does cuz it’ll only confirm that he’s dodging Zhinxy and me, so he’s selecting the few comments that aren’t Zhinxy and Ami-related to prove that NO HE IS NOT GOING TO FLEE while, of course…. dodging dodging dodging XD
It’s spelled however NWO wants it spelled. No feminist state is going to tell HIM how to spell words that MEN invented!
Since you bring up schooling NWO, will you at least answer me as to why you are so resistant about questioning the “old public school line” about Columbus or the Founding Fathers? You criticize anyone who questions them, yet isn’t that defending Big Daddy’s spiritual guidance?
http://manboobz.com/2011/11/04/johnny-appleseed-a-man-going-his-own-way/comment-page-4/#comment-78657
Hey Ami, isn’t it interesting how the MRAs are pretty much silent about that Sandunsky case yet feminist bloggers are outraged?
I guess MRAs only care about male victims when they are at the hands of female perpetrators. When men are the perps they turn a blind eye.
Misogyny/misandry double feature!!!
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“The Fe-ME-ists who run the NWLC apparently think I care. I do. Their emails inflame my acid reflux so bad I blow bulimic… Governor Brown, it says – in the “Dear Herby” email – nominated Law Professor Goodwin Liu to the “highest court in California”. Great, another Mangina appointed to a Supreme Court. Blow…”
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“Liu also served on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center. Wow! What a coincidence. He even lists it on his bio. No wonder the NWLC is hot to get this guy installed on the California Supreme Court – they might own a chunk of the him…and his vagina, regardless of who is wearing it. Did I mention the wool panties? Hinky.”
http://ncfm.org/2011/08/news/courts-appellate/the-california-supreme-court-and-wool-bras/
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…”hinky???”
@KathleenB
I forgot, content means zip, spelling is everything. Your comments are proof positive.
@NWOSlave:
You don’t speak as if that this is something that the government has tried to enact, but as if it’s happening right now, and has been happening for some time. Try again.
The MRAs have said some stuff, but many seem to be trying to blame it on feminism, or spin it into a “society doesn’t care about boys!” thing… but I think some of them are having real difficulty with it because the ENTIRE situation is men all the way down and they can’t find a woman to make as the enemy…-_-
NWOslave | November 16, 2011 at 11:31 pm
@KathleenB
I forgot, content means zip, spelling is everything. Your comments are proof positive.
Nice dodge again xD
still waiting master Libertarian king of kings xD
I’m SO AMUSED by this right now xD
Oh NWO… the stubborn guy who argues w/ EVERYBODY won’t argue w/ somebody who actually wants to have a debate about libertarianism w/ him xD
NWO: Are you fucking insane? I know that reading comprehension is hard (fucking sentences, how do they work? and all), but really. I’ve addressed substantive parts of your posts MANY times, and you’ve responded with insults and asshattery. So, address some of the real things I (and Zhinxy and Ami and many, many others) have said, or fuck off.
NWO: Well perhaps you haven’t heard the happy news. Men still have the right of, “presumption of innocense.” I’ve been hard at work since April 4th of this year to ensure you maintain that right.
No, you haven’t.
You have been protesting a law which raises the standard of proof in colleges which receive federal funding from, “whatever the college wants” to a preponderance of evidence.
Since colleges aren’t able to administer criminal justice, they can use whatever standards they like to settle issues.
Since they are private institutions, they get to establish contracts (which is what libertarians think is the best form of interpersonal action; at least the l’aissez faire sort).
The feds thought that was unfair, and raised the standard to that in civil action brought before the bar.
But you don’t care. Because you don’t read for content, just talking points.
Oh I’m sure they’ll find a way. Women are to be blamed for everything afterall *eyeroll*
NWO c’mon man, what are your Libertarian views? this should be easy for someone with very strong opinions about government.
PS. The greatest book ever written (That I have read) about the history of and problems with American government schooling is the (Freely Available!) Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto. Whatever side of the issues you come down on, I can’t recommend it highly enough. He also lays beautiful waste to The Bell Curve.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue.htm
I’ve seen him flee from me. I’ve seen him declare how much he hates me and storm off in a huff… I’ve seen him disappear for hours until he thinks I’m gone and reappear… only to storm off again, or try to insult me xD
but this whole dodgy thing he’s doing w/ Zhinxy is special and hilarious xD
I meen lol skool is dum! Or some other nothingness. 😉
@Quackers
“Hey Ami, isn’t it interesting how the MRAs are pretty much silent about that Sandunsky case yet feminist bloggers are outraged?”
Actually, I said flat out to lock him up with the rest of the sodomites, where he’ll be raped by the rest of the gay/bi community. And that’s when the gang told me how men who have sex with other men/boys aren’t gay or bi, they’re actually straight. That’s in the big book of larnin as well, I guess.
Keep up the lies, hatred and State violence!
but really. I’ve addressed substantive parts of your posts MANY times, and you’ve responded with insults and asshattery.
NWO? Insults instead of actually ANSWERING stuff?
I’M SHOCKED xD
Actually, I said flat out to lock him up with the rest of the sodomites, where he’ll be raped by the rest of the gay/bi community. And that’s when the gang told me how men who have sex with other men/boys aren’t gay or bi, they’re actually straight. That’s in the big book of larnin as well, I guess.
What happened to “presumption of innocence?” xD What happened to being against preponderance of evidence? xD
Still waiiitttingggg NWO….
Also… so you think rape is OKAY? o: As long as you don’t like the person… got it xD
NWO, you do understand that ppl here aren’t going to respond to your derails nemore right? They want to see you actually substantiate your so-called “libertarianism” (you know, the one where you (apparently) want state-sanctioned rape of ppl you don’t like, ban queer activities, ban transitioning ban abortion, etc etc etc xD ) against Zhinxy XD
So rape in state prisons is all right? And the “unofficial” threat of rape the State holds over our heads as punishment for wrongdoing is just fine?
zhinxy | November 16, 2011 at 11:44 pm
So rape in state prisons is all right? And the “unofficial” threat of rape the State holds over our heads as punishment for wrongdoing is just fine?
That’s what it sounded like to me. xD NWO sounded pretty proud of his pro-state-rape st
@NWO
“Actually, I said flat out to lock him up with the rest of the sodomites, where he’ll be raped by the rest of the gay/bi community. And that’s when the gang told me how men who have sex with other men/boys aren’t gay or bi, they’re actually straight. That’s in the big book of larnin as well, I guess.”
Lol, no, NWO, what people have told you over and over again is that gay, straight, and bi all refer to (in adults) attraction towards *other adults*. Adults who are attracted to children are called “pedophiles”, and even though they might have a preference towards one gender or another, that doesn’t make them gay or straight. It makes them oriented towards male children or female children. A man who is attracted only to other men is called “gay”. A man who is attracted only to young boys is called a “pedophile”. You can be straight and a pedophile, or gay and a pedophile, but most pedophiles are exclusively attracted to children and don’t have an adult orientation. Most gay men are attracted only to other gay men and are not pedophiles. The end.
*stand too. XD