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.
Kladle, NWO only said that b/c he wants ppl to derail into arguing w/ him about queer stuff xD
He needs any out he can get right now xD
Watch, NWO is only going to respond to Kladle xD
Awwwwwwwww shit, I fell for it! Ok NWO, if you answer me about the gay thing, then you also have to tell us why you condone state-operated male rape factories (prisons)
<I.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.
Men who have sex with men are generally gay or bi. Men who rape little boys are sometimes gay, sometimes straight, sometimes completely asexual except for wanting to rape little boys. This isn’t actually complicated: normal people of whatever sexuality do not want to rape children. No one actually thinks, “Gee, I’d like to have healthy, consensual sex with another dude, but instead of putting in the fairly minimal effort it takes to find a gay man who’s up for some casual sex, I’ll just systematically insert myself into children’s lives, gain their trust and that of their families over an extended period, and then horrifically violate them!”
(Ami, should I stop poking him so he has to either disappear or acknowledge you? He just keeps saying such NWOishly ridiculous things…)
I like how I’m the field commander here xD
Keep poking him! 😀
For those of you following along at home, NWOslave, a man who claims to be the moral superior of every feminist commenter on this blog, has just given a ringing endorsement to prison rape as an acceptable form of punishment. I repeat, NWOslave has just ENDORSED PRISON RAPE.
Slavey:
Yes, but you managed to turn that one into 100% (by failing statistics forever, to be sure).
” Ok NWO, if you answer me about the gay thing, then you also have to tell us why you condone state-operated male rape factories (prisons)”
Seriously NWO, this isn’t even an exaggeration. What do you think of it?
Don’t tell NWO how to do stats! xD A man invented statistics (probably, according to NWO) so therefore NWO invented it too! 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 he posts this as a defense of himself.
Does NWO being so ok with rape really shock anybody? xD
Huh. I thought a comment I made got eaten, but I think it actually got moderated. I apologize in advance for the double post. If it’s let through, that is.
Spearhead has already placed the blame of the Sandusky affair on….. Single mothers.
Case closed.
NWO:
So as far as you’re concerned prison rape is just fine and dandy as long as the victim ‘deserves’ it?
Or you don’t like them?
Also, are you saying that there is a larger number of gay and bisexual prisoners in American gaols than in the general community? If so, I’d like to see a reputable cite for that. I mean prison rapes are a real problem, so there must be a lot of gay/bisexual guys in gaol in order to account for it. Either that or that few percent of the prison population are really, really busy.
Or, you know, it could be just power hungry guys doing it because they have fewer options in gaol and their sexual orientation is more or less irrelevant. People who like to dominate, abuse and terrorize others will find a way to do it regardless of their environment and this is just a case in point.
How exactly does posting a picture of the Joker threatening an elected official with a knife advance the cause of Men’s Rights?
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Interesting question.
I’d be inclined to ask how this video-
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pellebilling.se%2F2011%2F11%2Fscum-having-fun%2F
-advances the cause of feminism but then I think we all know the answer.
Fucktard.
So the actual rapist and the institution that tried to cover up his crimes are just innocent victims of single mothers’ negligence.
Wait, seriously? I was just joking about them blaming women for EVERYTHING!
ewme, that video is a joke MRAs are too stupid to understand and we’ve seen it already.
zhinxy:
Thank Christ. Have you read The Mismeasure of Man? A classic.
FYI, although I can’t remember the title, I read a paper that mentioned that The Bell Curve‘s footnotes refer mostly to “studies” done by the organization to which the authors belong, and which is funded (maybe through several removes, maybe just straight-up) by white supremacist groups. Tasty.
ewme,
Numerous movies have been made about the Marquis De Sade, a man who sadistically raped and tortured young women. Everyone is fine with it.
Torture porn genres of horror films brutally depict women being tortured and killed. Horror movies have long relied on female victims. MRAs don’t say a peep.
One crappy student film that isn’t even from this COUNTRY about some girls shooting a guy and MRAs are losing it.
Fucktard.
I used to burn innocense all the time, but not so much any more. It was more of a college thing. Sandalwood was my favorite.
ewme, that video was a film project put together by a small group of women who don’t represent anyone but themselves. The NCFM is basically the one and only MR organization of any size in the US*, and has some of the biggest name MRAs and allies on its board of advisors. It’s also a group reguarly cited by MRAs commenting here as being a representative of sane, non-hateful MR activism.
*Fathers and Families doesn’t describe itself as a MR group, but rather a father’s rights group.
kladle, thanks for all your quotes and links! I will do a NCFM roundup post shortly.
the locking up I agree with. The rest of what you said is just wrong on so many levels. Factually, Ethically, Morally….
I don’t think your fellow MRAs would appreciate you condoning prison rape either.
It’s not like they care either.
Seriously, they think it’s just a bludgeon to hit feminists with. They don’t give a shit.
But, but, it’s only feminazis that condone prison rape. Right? Right?…