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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Ha! Impressive wig! =D
While I understand the reasoning behind this, I feel it’s kind of a cop out to say lack of confidence is the reason you don’t have a relationship. I do think it plays a part and confidence is an attractive trait but I don’t like how its made out to be some kind of elixer that all of a sudden makes people attractive to you. Plus lots of people with low self esteem are in relationships, how did they manage?
How do you even portray confidence? for example I may be confident in my other abilities, but my looks aren’t one of them. And when you go through life being invisible that has a tendency to reinforce the negative way you think of yourself.
All in all it just sounds too magical to me. I could walk like I’m all that but that still doesn’t change how I feel about my appearance and even if some guy did think I was confident and found that attractive, he’d just end up finding out the real me and get disappointed.
I’m glad it looks real; that was my first time wearing a wig for a costume.
It was nice because curly wigs are pretty easy to maintain, all you have to do is gently untangle it by hand. For my next project (Female Joker) I get to change a wig’s part, dye it green, and curl it. I’m just hoping I don’t destroy the whole thing.
Another thing just occurred to me on the “holy crap this kid is self-centered” front. Why does MRAL think women here are lying about their bust size just because he likes big boobs? Have any of us ever given the impression that we would want him to be attracted to us?
Seriously, dude – narcissism, it’s a bad thing.
“I’m getting pretty sick of MRAL coming in here, posting angry bull, and then saying “sorry, I posted too fast and now everybody’s jumping all over me because they don’t understand what I mean,” when I’m almost positive we understand perfectly well–if someone were to phrase the same thoughts in milder language, I would find them equally objectionable–and it’s not like we’re getting angry just ’cause. I stop wanting to say “it’s okay, try to think before posting next time” when it happens repeatedly. But again, maybe I’m just in a bad mood today.”
No, I don’t think it’s because you’re in a bad mood.
“If I’m going to provide therapy he’s going to need to pay me for it.”
Yep.
To those who are suggesting it, yeah, I’ve been meaning to do something on Shrink4Men.
This thread generally: It looks like the MRAL derail has colled off, but if I’d gotten here sooner I would have shut that shit down and put MRAL on moderation. It’s not just annoying, but we’ve had the same exact discussion here again and again and it’s really tiresome.
MRAL: I don’t want to have to put you on moderation again. Just drop this shit. Don’t post here when you’re pissed off about this shit; I don’t think it’s helpful for you or for anyone else here.
Please, let’s talk about MRAs! Or kitties!
Or MRA kitties? Hey, if a male cat lives alone is it a Kitty Going Its Own Way?
This sorta reminded of the MRA mindset. The punchline is class XD
Terms like “gorgeous” are totally subjective. My wife is still gorgeous to me, something I’m in no small way grateful for as we approach our tenth wedding anniversary, and it doesn’t matter one iota what anyone else thinks. In fact, I’d quite like it if other men didn’t think she was gorgeous, as that only complicates matters.
Come to think of it, she also has very impressively large breasts (sorry, I can’t post the exact size as I haven’t the faintest idea), which is obviously a rather less subjective matter. Does that mean MRAL would go for her? I doubt it very much: even if she wasn’t already spoken for, she’s more than twice his age.
CassandraSays:
I spent most of my twenties hanging out with a very close female friend – so close that we even lived together for a year. I’m sure a lot of people thought we were a couple (in fact, sometimes we pretended to be, if we weren’t in the mood to get hit on), but I never so much as glimpsed her in a state of undress, and vice versa. And neither did I want to: she was perfectly attractive, but I just didn’t think we’d be an especially good match, and I’m sure she felt the same way – the question never came up, even when drunk, and we’d normally talk about most everything else under the sun.
As you say, it was more of a brother-sister thing: my own sister is several years younger than me, so having a ‘sister’ roughly my age was kind of like filling in a gap in my life.
Alphalady:
My wife says that her great confidence-epiphany occurred in her late teens, when she came to terms with the fact that she was no-one’s idea of a supermodel – but she also knew beyond any doubt that she was both very bright and laugh-out-loud funny.
And being certain about those two strengths gave her the confidence to deal with pretty much everything else.
Quackers: “MRA end goals are not about the well being of all men.”
I’ve given up trying to understand what they want, other than to make feminists suffer some sort of bizarre apocalyptic death, as Paul Elam so eloquently wrote last week.
Speaking of MRAs…there was a comment on AVfM where the guy suggested bringing back the Scold’s Bridle, which was a torture device mainly used on women who didn’t know there place.
Ironically I think it was under the recent post where they’re bitching about Australia and how much influence those radfems have on laws over there. It constantly boggles my mind how these idiots either support or don’t call out their movement’s violence but then complains about another movements violence…at least radical feminists and us “fun feminists” had the decency to separate.
It’s funny, it you just described Russel Brand to me: tall, thin, long dark hair, scruffy facial hair, etc. I’d say he exactly fit my ideal guy in the look department but I look at him and I just don’t get it, I don’t find him attractive. It’s like he’s some strange mix of Johnny Depp and Tim Minchin (I love both) that doesn’t quite work for me.
That said, looks are honestly the lowest thing on my list when looking for a partner. My boyfriend is nowhere near my ideal, seeing as he’s average height, chubby, blond, and very midwestern. I think he’s the first guy I’ve dated since highschool with no tattoos. He is however smart, funny, sweet, and incredibly kinky, all things that are far more important and sexier to me than looks. Why so many people have a hard time wrapping their head around that I just can’t understand, I want someone I like to spend time with a lot more than I want someone hot.
“I spent most of my twenties hanging out with a very close female friend – so close that we even lived together for a year.”
My dearest friend is a dude. We lived together for a while too but I moved out to live with my boyfriend. We’re still best friends though and have never seen each other as anything but =)
@Quackers: Lemme guess–that comment got a ton of upvotes.
@Crumbelievable
He actually said that? that’s disturbing….but frankly not really surprising. See my comment before this one lol
Here:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/avfm-seasonal-fundraiser/
And somehow in reading it I skipped over this lovely gem:
“Progress for men will not be gained by debate, reason or typical channels of grievance available to segments of the population that the world actually gives a damn about. The progress we need will only be realized by inflicting enough pain on the agents of hate, in public view, that it literally shocks society out of its current coma”
So…there ya go. MRAs are not interested in debates or reason, straight from the horse’s mouth.
2 upvotes, 1 downvote last time I checked. The downvote was probably only there to make them look good.
Here’s a description of a scold’s bridle from wikipedia:
“Wives that were seen as witches, shrews and scolds, were forced to wear a brank’s bridle, which had been locked on the head of the woman and sometimes had a ring and chain attached to it so her husband could parade her around town and the town’s people could scold her and treat her with contempt; at times smearing excrement on her and beating her, sometimes to death.”
It’s an MRA utopia!
@Crumbelievable
Hahaha! oh that’s hilarious…considering that MRAs often loudly proclaim how men are just bastions of reason and logic, and that women don’t have the capacity for either of those things. So they’re stooping down to the level of lowly wimminz now?
Agent of hate sounds similar to Joker’s agent of chaos speech from Dark Knight. I’m sure they think of themselves like Batman lol.
That’s not Superwoman cosplay. This is Superwoman cosplay.
@Quackers:
pfffttt. At best they may become Fallout Boys!!
I think Katy Perry’s smoking with makeup, but don’t like her without just because my preference runs towards tan/browned skin. I’ve liked her in her cameos on Simpsons and SNL because she seems to be mocking her public persona. Her music, however, makes me want to shove screwdrivers through my ears!!
I’m curious, and also horrrified, to think what Mr. Elam is going to do with his 5,000 doll-hairs. Maybe buy some guns to make good on the threats? More likely he’ll just buy a new car and keep telling his minions “Oh yeah, we’ll do something soon. I promise”.
That is an awesome Superwoman.
@Shadow
Ha! jiminy jillikers!
The picture of Katy Perry and Russel Brand is eerie…look at how they stare into your soul O_O does anyone think they kinda look alike? actually I notice this with a lot of couples I see…