Uh oh! I just discovered this, currently the top story over on the Men’s Rights subreddit:
Yes, my sisters (and honorary mangina man-sisters), Russell Brand has dealt a severe blow to Operation Alimony, which (as you well know, at least if you’ve been attending the meetings) is our dastardly Feminazi plot to destroy the patriarchy by getting pretty ladies to marry and divorce rich dudes and take all their money.
You may remember our wild revelry when we heard that comrade-ess Heather Mills had walked off (no jokes please) with £24.3 million of Paul McCartney’s man money. And the joyful tears we shed when we heard that Mel Gibson’s ex-wife had (reportedly) scored a cool $425 million in her divorce settlement.
But today, we shed only the bitterest of tears. We have not only been thwarted, but we’ve also been exposed! Damn those Men’s Rights Redditors and their evil allies at the Daily Mail!
The comments in the r/mensrights thread show that they understand our evil plans all too well. How can we respond to Aetheralloy’s withering critique?
Feminists see the absurdity of their own pushed polices?
LOL no. No they won’t. I’d sooner expect scientologists to ask their psychiatrist if they are in a cult.
But ladies! Do not despair! Russell Brand may have set back our efforts, but he, and his Reddit allies, shall not defeat us!
Ladies, you know what to do. Get yourself all prettied up, hit the town, and snag yourself some rich dudes! Let’s see how many of these guys we can have married off by the end of the year.
Marrying (and divorcing) rich dudes: it’s the feminist way!
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I have no intention of being “unfair.” I’m not putting anyone down or attacking anyone here.
I had self-image problems myself in the past. (Interestingly, I suffered from this at the times in my life when I was extremely physically attractive.) But I took the bull by the horns and worked very hard to overcome this. I really am just making some observations meant to help. And, sorry, I do believe in the “Just World Fallacy” (if that’s what you wish to call it, although I don’t) because I have seen it in action in my life and the lives of many others, many, many times.
So what’s up with the defensiveness?
(Wow…this really did strike a nerve!)
Cassandra: No. Not even if you sockpuppet.
There’s nothing “restrained” about using a group of strangers as punching bags for your issues with women and with yourself, MRAL. Everyone here has been much nicer to you than you deserve. That may not last much longer.
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Awww the thing is mral I am not like other people here I am not gonna cut you slack or play nice just because you are young and can change. I don’t give a crap about you not getting laid or being lonely. You know what I do care about? You treating women like shit. Calling women who don’t want to sleep with you “entitled bitches” is not exactly the most nicest thing to do. So don’t get all defensive when I actually get mad at your dumb shit. I am going to treat you like every other misogynist troll that comes through this site so get used to it.
I’m not using this place as a punching bag, I made some observations and everyone started attacking me and calling me names and stuff. I made some generalizations, sure and I apologize, but other people make mistakes and don’t get yelled at by 10 people.
Seriously MRAL, at this point it seems like you’re trying to destroy what little credibility you’ve earned here.
And jumbofish, okay, fine. By the way, I really don’t “treat” women good or bad, because I don’t have contact with non-relative women, so your slanderous shit can take a hike, you cozening fuck.
hahaha make great “observations” that women are entitled bitches?
The fact is, MRAL, you have a bad rap to overcome. A lot of people are willing to reach out to you and discuss things with you in good faith, but you used up all your benefit of the doubt when you were purposely being an ass. Now, you’re not doing it on purpose (I hope) but people are reacting to you in the same way, because there is a history of this.
So uhm, yea.
“I really am just making some observations meant to help.”
You failed. How is that for defensiveness?
“The Universe gives us what we give out.”
I’m sorry, but I can’t see any other way to read that than “If you’re happy, you deserve it. If you’re miserable, you deserve it”
Cassandra: from all the fiction I’ve read or watched, if you do that, he’ll turn evil and will try to poison a city or something. So no.
Other people don’t call women entitled bitches for fucking someone who is not them, or throw hissy fits over the fact that some people have in the past found their partners attractive, or have screaming tantrums because not everyone wants to bone celebrity X.
You’re being a brat. Knock it off or I actually will be nasty to you – there’s certainly a wealth of material to get at you with if anyone actually wanted to attack you in a serious way.
MRAL, you’re reverting. Please don’t.
Why were you sockpuppeting, anyway? Everyone knows that’s you.
Yea, those people didn’t spend months being hurtful and hateful “for the lulz”. Sorry MRAL, you’d don’t get leeway here. You used it up. Accept call-outs gracefully and put in the work.
And, sorry, I do believe in the “Just World Fallacy” (if that’s what you wish to call it, although I don’t) because I have seen it in action in my life and the lives of many others, many, many times.
Believe it all you want. Doesn’t make it true. And whether you intend to be unfair or not, that’s what you’re doing, because you’re basically saying that when bad things happen to good people, it’s their own fault.
MRAL, you’re not just making observations. Kid, I’ve tried with you, but you can fuck right off.
Go find somewhere else to “observe.”
MRAL: you got angry over a woman and insulted her, in this very thread, on the only ground that she slept (hypothetically) with someone other than you. “Others do it too” is a terrible excuse.
You’re the one being an asshole, MRAL. You’ve been treated remarkable well considering the vile things you’ve posted in the past, and your confession was greeted with a frankly undeserved degree of compassion and acceptance. You think you can call women bitches and get away with it? Or is it only women who have the effrontery to think they own their own vaginas?
You’ve already been given the benefit of the doubt, kiddo, and you’re fucking blowing it.
The idea that bad things only happen to bad people, and you can make good things happen by being good, is a comforting fiction. It’s magical thinking, basically. Of course we have some control over some things (our resident brat, for example, is certainly in large part to blame for the fact that entitled bitches don’t want to date him), but a lot of times horrible things happen to perfectly lovely people because the universe just sucks that way. And as tempting as the magical thinking is, the endpoint of that is “if you get cancer you must have done SOMETHING to bring that on yourself”, and that’s a horrible sentiment to entertain.
I was trying to be funny with Dad 2 Boys, because I felt kind of bad that I derailed the topic, even though I didn’t mean to. But everyone continued calling me names, so whatever.
MRAL, I wash my hands of you. Hey Jumbofish, is there a key to the chronic ass playhouse, or can I just drop right in?
The Just World Fallacy or “The Secret” or whatever you want to call it is so much woo bullshit.
Sometimes shit just happens regardless. You mean my friend with stage 4 inoperable cancer wasn’t positive enough? This is a person who did everything “right” and guess what? Dying. So take that crap and cram it sideways with walnuts.
Yes, that did strike a nerve, because an acquaintance had the nerve to float that theory recently.
What about the women here? your coworkers? that lady you met at that new years eve party?
You obviously have problems with women dude and while you may never say anything to a woman’s face you still treat them like crap because you think shitty things about them. You have also said some nasty things to women here though it was under the guise of trolling.
Also, women on the Internet are in fact real and so your behavior towards them is how you are treating women, by definition.
I am sorry if I offended people and I wish I hand’t told the party story. It really was not a big deal, at all.
MRAL, a word of advice: If you wanna diffuse the situation when you’ve offended somebody, apologize and walk away. Being an even bigger ass doesn’t help.