Over on Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit, cheester warns all of us dudes about an especially insidious form of anti-male oppression: the racks of women’s magazines that lurk near the checkout counters of grocery stores everywhere!
can I get some feedback on womens magazines at the grocery checkout? Every issue states “new tricks he doesn’t know in bed” and shite like that. It’s obvious porn for the gals but why is it so accepted by everyone that it has carte blanche to be within a two foot reach as I pay for my food? If a magazine for men had on the cover: “20 Ways To Make Her Squirm Like A Fish”….there would be a national outrage.
Yeah, it’s not like Men’s magazines ever run anything like that.
Church groups and womens rights would say it demoralizes women and have the publication banned or put behind censored racks in seedy smoke shops.
Yeah. It’s not like this ever happens to women’s magazines.
But the womens mags are right there as a last shop item in the flourescent lit, sterilized, family atmosphere where every mother parades her toddlers and kids right past the 3 letter word in big black block letters;SEX on the cover of every flashy colored womens mag that comes out each month.
Not only is this oppression of men, it’s oppression of all toddlers who can read and know what the word “sex” means.
Also, feminists have never criticized women’s magazines in any way. “Ten Ways to Make Him Squirm” articles are the distilled essence of feminism! And most of them are written by the ghost of Andrea Dworkin.
NOTE: Does this even need a “sarcasm” tag?
EVIL FEMINIST SHREWS
d’awwww
my major regret of my visit to lake victoria last summer is that we didnt see any shrews. granted, the guide warned us that shrew sightings were incredibly rare, but still…
zhinxy: I know there were women who were doing it voluntarily; but they also had more limited options. I also was pointing out that his “vision” is nothing new.
He ought to read about the social standing of prostitutes in village France in the 12-14th centuries.
Pecunium – Yes. I appreciate that, I think your comment was good, and I’m not trying to be hostile, just pointing out that “rent a woman” is language that sex workers don’t like, particularly since a lot of them still go by the bottle, hour, evening model.
And yes, he very much should.
Erl may force me to change my vote for “most imaginative.” (I haven’t posted them yet because I keep deliberating.)
Sorry, that should read “targets” and not “sources” of Sabrina’s anger. Geeze, and on the abuser thread too. I blame finals.
I’m trying to remember if there was an evil Muppet. Which Muppet do we think Meller is? Can he be one of the old men who sit in the balcony?
God, no. Statler and Waldorf were intentionally funny, and willing to acknowledge that they were being assholes. DKM is only unintentionally funny, appallingly so, and his self-bowlderization (in the face of his disgusting views) is the opposite of Statler and Waldorf’s frank cruelty. Sorry, CassandraSays.
Were there any that were genuinely despicable? I think we may have found a flaw in the Muppet theory, if not.
Cassandra: Uncle Deadly? Except in the movie. I don’t know if there are any truly evil Muppets.
Erl wins an Internet and my vote for Most Creative.
Holly: Wait, fuck, I’m supposed to turn ON men? Dammit, my copy of the feminist agenda has the exact same typo as yours! And don’t even talk to me about the queer agenda. Half the time I don’t know if I’m supposed to destroy marriage or just get one.
I see the Mellertoad has been here. Typing out his lurid and disgusting fantasies for all of the “loose” women, undoubtedly with one hand, and generally stinking up the joint.
Have you convinced many men that they’d have a more fulfilling life if they talk to dolls while masturbating, Mellertoad? You could be quite the proselytizer. In fact, I think you should spread your gospel of solitude and jacking off to Hello Kitty far and wide.
Start a revolution!
That will show us evil, feminist, shrikes.
Bedsores and loneliness!!!!!
Nobina… what was your super clever misspelling? Right:
Nobinayahoo! Feminist harpy!
Does he have to be a Muppet? He could be SkekNa — is that close enough?
Here’s the rest of the Skeksis.
Muppets can’t be truly evil. It’s impossible.
I know, right? All this time I’ve been loving my baby up and I was supposed to be making him miserable. Clearly, the thing is riddled with misprints. I blame the publisher.
imo, if henson made it its a muppet. doesnt matter if it didnt appear in the muppet universe, muppet is synonymous with henson’s genius craftsmanship.
That’s perfect. In fact every time he talks about sweet old-fashioned “girls” I think “aren’t you a retiree?”. An evil, predatory, elderly creature that wants to suck the life force out of cute little doll-like creatures is perfect.
Has anyone/everyone seen the new movie?
@Meller
awww…someone needs a hug.
Anyone else not surprised that many MRA and chauvanist types answer to being scorned by an ex lover(s) is to strip them of their rights? see, I don’t know any woman, no matter how many times she’s ever been screwed over by an ex, would her conclusion be to take away his, and all men’s right to vote, It’s hard to imagine there are any who would even think this because we are so used to thinking that men just GET rights, women had to “earn” them by fighting for them. Even in the cases of non-property owning men (who got the vote 60 years before women) we don’t say “well you did something I didn’t like and you don’t own property, no vote for you” but we do say “this is what happens when we “let” women vote”
This is a perfect example of misogyny and how it still rears it’s nasty head now and then. Do something a man doesn’t like? take away the bitches right to vote and all her other rights too while you’re at it! FORCE them to do what we say.
Once again the obvious disclaimer, I’m talking about misogynists, not all or even most men.
I take it back.
Aunt Taminella was truly evil.
DKM said @ 12.10:
“Calling one of my Mens Entertainment centers, “brothels” is woefully understating what i have in mind, for them, and for the women who serve in them. It would be like comparing Wal-mart with a mom-and-pop corner grocery. Nothing is wrong with the mom-and-pop corner grocery, of course, but a description or model of such a little shop is NOT a description of Wal-Mart! Calling what I have in mind for ex-floozies, ‘brothels” is similarly, utterly inadaquate for the immense opportunities it would open up for women who otherwise would probably die in the gutter!”
You seem to be thinking of the geisha houses of Tokugawa Japan or the heteira of ancient Greece, and if you’re going to have some form of educated high class sex worker that’s one of a number of ways of doing it. The problem I have with this is that women are to be given, presumably by their families because they’d had sex when they weren’t supposed to. That is what I object to, the idea that women in this system are chattels that can be just given away if they become a problem, also that the only appropriate role for a woman is to serve a man, rather than looking to their own interests, needs and wants like a grown up.
The funny thing is that Meller thinks that the fact that the unwilling sex workers will also give back rubs, play music, etc, makes their situation more palatable. It doesn’t. In fact from the woman’s perspective you’re just adding more chores to the list of stuff that she doesn’t want to do, but is required to. As if being forced to sexually service random men wasn’t enough, now she has to make conversation with them too. And he thinks that this is being nice to those women.
Basically the whole thing is predicated on the idea that women’s purpose in life is to serve men. Which is nauseating.
That’s the bizarre thing about his idea, women are supposed to be OK with this. He doesn’t seem to realize that a high class, educated protected involuntary sex worker is still an involuntary sex worker. On top of it all these women are supposed to be happy in this role.
And since when did a brothel stop being a brothel because it offered things besides sex?
He keeps getting stymied by the idea that what he wants might not be what everyone wants. It reminds me of this scene from Beauty and the Beast.
@katz
oh lord…so many comments on that vid are about rape TRIGGER WARNING:
“Girls when your not as cool as Belle and you say no to someone like Gaston…you get something very dirty…you will get raped!”
that’s just….ugh. SMH.
but it illustrates why Gaston is the worst Disney villain in my opinion. When Meller was ranting about women being educated one time the quote that popped into my head was when he told Belle “it’s not right for a woman to read! soon she gets ideas…and thinking”
Yep. Cuz then we start getting uppity and all these ideas about *gasp* rights!!!
but it illustrates why Gaston is the worst Disney villain in my opinion.
although gaston is more transparently villainous, i prefer him to li shang from mulan, who despite being an entitled asshole the entire movie, still gets the girl. and her reward for proving herself is she gets to marry the man of her dreams, or something.
also, pocahontas is supposed to be misogynist? i dont know, because when i was a kid my mom refused to let me see it because she thought it was anti-woman, and i still haven’t, because shes the only mom ive ever known who did shit like that and i dont want to spoil it by seeing the movie now, or something. i love my mom a lot.
also, my mom is everything dkm hates in a woman- vicious, sarcastic, temperamental, paranoid, but she was also an amazing partner to my dad last saturday when he had to put one of our dogs, his best friend in the whole world, to sleep. suck on that dkm.
Quackers, never read the comments on YouTube! That’s like internet 101!