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!
I had a
It’s good to know that being picked up by the throat and slammed into a door by my father at age four was my fault for putting up with it! And that my mom walked around on crutches for weeks because she put up with her husband slamming her into walls! Thanks for that, Alphalady.
No no, jumbofish, it’s just that there’s a lot of gloomy gusses out there who have a victim mentality and want people to validate their poor self-image! Really! It’s true! So they get all angry at somebody who won’t do that, and just mentions that you can be positive instead! Because that’s totally what just happened!
You know you just get from the universe what you’ve sent out! All those starving orphans with AIDS just need to think more positively!
Lauralot, Yup, just as even though I guess I finally had enough and stopped putting up with the abuse (WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG LOL IT WAS SO SIMPLE), my depression and pstd is just negative thinky vibes. If I was positive enough they’d go away!
It’s my fault my babysitter repeatedly hit me when I was two! I should have just walked right on out of her house and back home!
The things you learn.
Aaaand alphalady’s link is just “people don’t like it when you’re right.” Troll!
A very bad troll, to boot.
Between MRAL thinking that I’m arrogant because I have some hot exes and I don’t want to fuck Russell Brand, and wolfie lady thinking that I must have low self esteem because I don’t like victim-blaming woo, today has been rather a confusing day.
If this provokes an identity crisis I’m sending you guys the therapy bill. Just so you know.
Hey Alphalady, have you thought that maybe that if you aren’t getting the reception here that you want, it’s because you aren’t being positive enough? Maybe you should work harder to take the bull by the horns and overcome our negativity. Or maybe the universe just doesn’t want us to listen to your ideas!!!
So does the positive thinking also work retroactively? If you live in an impoverished country and your mother dies at birth and your father died earlier and you are born with permanent health problems due to malnourishment, can you undo that with thinking, or were your parents supposed to positive-think your life into being good before you were born?
kladle wins.
If I think positive now will it bring my mother back to life?
(OK, now I’m getting a bit feisty.)
But the Pokemon movie taught me that crying a lot raises the dead!
It is so unbelievably sad that someone would receive such hostile reactions for encouraging people to have positive self-esteem. What was I thinking?
Pearls before swine, clearly. CLEARLY.
Thank you, sweetheart!
@Zhinxy:
Pearls before swine, more like crotchless panties before NWOs
Obviously whatever it was you were thinking was not adequately positive! Otherwise none of this would have happened, right?
btw @kladle
that was positively delightful!
Oh alphalady, what terribly negative feelings must you be holding on to in order to provoke such a negative response from others? Something very bad seems to be being reflected back at you. What kind of energy could you be sending out to provoke such a reaction?
You should meditate on it.
Boy, this thread has been like a really long movie with about three different surprise endings, and probably a few more to come!
Why are you people being so hostile?
It is so unbelievably sad that someone would receive such hostile reactions for encouraging people to have positive self-esteem. What was I thinking?
You are like: All you people with self esteem issues can NEVER have a healthy relationship!! Also if you are abused it is your own fault since you were just thinking positively enough!!!
Any questions now why people are so hostile to those two assertions?
We explained our issues. You can go back and read “why” we’re being so very hostile, or continue with the martyrdom…
Let put this in a way you’ll understand: I’m so sorry for being “hostile” to you. It’s not like anything you’ve said has been “insulting” or “arrogant”.