The Men’s Rights Movement now has a theme song! A couple of talented young men calling themselves Jade Michael and the FTSU Singers Crew have put together a catchy little grunge rock number they call Go My Own Way, which will now serve as the opening music for the A Voice for Men internet radio show.
As AVfM head cheese Paul Elam puts it, straining his prose-generating abilities to the breaking point as he attempts to find words eloquent enough to describe this new musical masterpiece:
Jade Michael, artist, professional musician and MRA, founder of Artistry Against Misandry, has taken his talent hammer and given it a mighty swing to our benefit. He has forged, in the fires of his own passion, the new theme song for AVfM Radio, titled Go My Own Way. It is not to be confused with the similarly titled offering from Fleetwood Mac, Go Your Own Way. No, not in the least. Jade, with his band, Jade Michael and the FTSU Crew, have produced a veritable anthem for the red pill crowd. It is replete with a great, purist rock sound, a touch of humor, attitude, and a ton of gut level, red pill honesty. Pay close attention to the end for the invocation of Thomas James Ball.
Without further ado, here’s the song:
You can find the full lyrics on YouTube and on AVfM. But I thought I’d share a few of my favorite bits.
The song starts off by addressing one of the most savage injustices faced by men today: evil ladies who expect men to hold doors open for them.
And we’re through with holding doors
Entitlements abound
You say that we still hold you down
And you cop that attitude
No remorse or gratitude
Seriously, ladies, would it hurt you to say “thank you” once in a while, to the men who literally enable you to walk through walls, by holding open the doors you would otherwise be unable to open? To paraphrase Barbie: Doors are hard!
Then there’s this bit:
You’re obsessed with my ability
I won’t be your utility
I’ll never carry you
And I sure won’t marry you
Women around the world, consider what you’re losing here: no longer can you expect to marry guys who hate you so much they made a song about how they won’t hold doors open for you!
And let’s not forget:
Cos’ the time has come to fuck your shit up
The time has come to fuck your shit up
The time has come to fuck your shit up
Perhaps I’m missing some of the subtleties here, but this sort of suggests to me that Jade and the Gang are not so much Men Going Their Own Way as they are Men Still Hanging Around Acting Like Assholes — not MGTOW but MSHAALA.
I appreciate the efforts of Jade Michael and the MSHAALA, but I can’t really help but think of this little song-and-dance number, from the excellent Belgian horror film Calviare (The Ordeal), as the Men’s Rights movement’s unofficial anthem.
In case you’re wondering, this scene makes a little bit more sense in the context of the movie itself. A little bit. It’s actually quite a brilliant little film with some interesting gender stuff going on in it, if you can deal with fairly violent horror films. But, oh my lord, TRIGGER WARNINGS for pretty much every trigger there is.
NOTE: In case you’re wondering about the song’s reference to Thomas Ball:Â Ball burned himself to death outside a courthouse in Keane, New Hampshire last year in a protest against what he saw as unfair treatment in family court. He hoped that his suicide would inspire other men to start firebombing courthouses and police stations. (This wasn’t mere rhetoric; in the lengthy manifesto he left behind he provided tips on how to make effective Molotov cocktails.) Naturally, many in the MRM have hailed him as a martyr for Men’s Rights.
By the way, NWOslave, that song in which a bunch of women shame men into fighting for their honour? It’s not real. The play is an absurdest flight of fancy. Not meant to be taken seriously.
I mean it’s worse because the song is just bland and not at all chalked full of talent hammering. Worse than the most generic nickelback song.
I heard better music on “go deigo go” today with my little boy.
Also I hope my favorite band doesn’t fall into the angry white boy category. Chevelle has amazing lyrics to me.
But wait! Mgtow, Serena Ryder already has your back! She foresaw the day you’d need an anthem and wrote this little ditty for you, called “And Some Money Too”.
I’d post a youtube video, but she hasn’t created one for this song.. So all those MRA’s, just look in the mirror as she sings…its all cool.
Clementine I have had the same thought and I happen to have a little talent in that direction. Anyone have requests for whats going to be the best? I have been pondering taking Arks colorful language, like “Hot buttered Manatee” and making it into little graphics or art pieces. xD
Also I wont be trying to comment from my ipod anymore as it was total fail. >_<
@red_locker
Only concerned with female sexual pleasure? Really? Nobody justifies, say, men touching women’s bodies in ways women wouldn’t be permitted to touch men… Nobody argues that the only sex that exists is PIV, and that sex is finished then the man orgasms… There’s no shaming women face for enjoying sex with multiple partners that men don’t face…
You forgot all the movies and TV shows that celebrate women’s sexual adventures, with the men treated as handsome but anonymous notches in their bedposts… the countless annoying movies and TV shows where a plain, chubby comedienne is paired with a model-sexy dude or an aging actress with a fresh-faced guy one-third her age… male actors being pressured to go full-frontal and then being taken less seriously as actors if they do… portrayals of male orgasm being so rare that showing a man enjoying sex automatically earns a movie at least a hard R… the long, lingering shots of gorgeous men’s bodies in pretty much all visual media… ads using the promise of sex with hot men to sell everything under the sun…
…the rarity of video games where you can play a male character who wears more than a codpiece and doesn’t have a giant bulge… literary critics heaping praise on every novel about the sexual obsessions and steamy affairs of a dumpy middle-aged female academic suspiciously similar to the writer… that crazy Batman relaunch where the entire first issue is just Batman striking sexy poses and then having sex with a dominant, heroic-looking Catwoman…
…the entire PUA community devoted to advising women on how to pick up men for “pump and dumps” while tearing down their sense of self-worth so they won’t demand anything in bed… male strip clubs and female-centric porn stores on every corner… all that female-centric porn online, from semi-classy sites like Suicide Boys on down… the growing online jane culture, with forums full of women reviewing male prostitutes like merchandise (see Cherry Brown’s recent critically-acclaimed graphic novel, Paying for It, about her experiences hiring maybe-legal teenage rent boys, whom she draws only from the neck down)…
…dating and marriage manuals that assume men don’t enjoy sex and shouldn’t expect sexual pleasure in a relationship as long as they get the emotional support they really need… religious fetishization of male virginity, including oddities like fundie Christian churches pressuring teenage boys to pledge their chastity to their mothers… the whole idea that men should be ashamed if their “number” is too high (I believe there was a crappy romcom about that a couple of months ago, about a guy determined to marry one of his ex-girlfriends so he wouldn’t have to have sex with another woman and be considered a slut)… the “dicks or GTFO” attitude on so many online forums (remember that 15-year-old boy just a few weeks ago who posted a photo of himself holding a book on an atheist forum and got dozens of leering, inappropriate comments from adult women?)…
…really, the normalization of the female gaze throughout Western culture, and the assumption that everyone in the world is a straight woman…
I can see where that would get tiring.
Nah, never mind. I want to live in that alternate universe, or at least visit on weekends.
aloren you should totally do it, i am considering doing something too
Wow, that ended up being way longer than I planned. But I kept thinking of examples!
I’m in a generous mood tonight, so I’ll call that song mediocre rock. It sounds like something someone in their teens might write, before they were proficient or mature enough to really find their own musical voice. The singer’s voice even sounded pretty young….in the broader picture, though, what made him so mad that he wrote that song?
I have to wonder what Jade Michael’s wife thinks about all this.
I’m guessing that Jade Michael’s wife has no idea what her idiot husband is up to online.
@helkell: Yeah, I’m confused how a married man is someone going his own way.
I’m also guessing that Jade Michael still wears leopard-print spandex pants and dreams of the day that he will grow up to be the singer from Warrant.
Maybe she has no idea what he’s up to online, but I have a hard time believing these attitudes don’t seep out into everyday life.
Wow, this is just… sad. For people who are apparently so angry, it really doesn’t seem like their heart is in this, does it?
PS I don’t know where they’re from, but where I come from, people of BOTH genders hold the door for whoever is behind them. Common courtesy, ya know?
It is an interesting question, why any woman would be with a man like that. Zarat is another example. Did they marry these men before the men went MRA? Did something awful happen to them to make them think that they deserve a man who thinks they’re subhuman?
@hellkell
She’s probably one of those surrendered wives types. Or imaginary.
@Shaenon
Hehe. I see what you did there.
Ben folds mentioned some of this already with “rocking the suburbs”:
yall don’t know what it’s like – being male, middle class and white
I don’t quite understand the going your own way message they’re trying to spread while being married either. Doesn’t in defeat the purpose of what they’re trying to say? dumbasses.
But, like, if he really went his own way who would wash his socks? The man is just being practical.
Actually given how whiny the song is I wonder if he and his wife have one of those relationships where she treats him like an overgrown child, because he is, and he thinks that’s really really mean of her.
@Shaenon
I looked up Chester..ahem…”Cherry” Brown’s Paying For It.
YEP. Nothing says disposable male society like a graphic novel about an old dude soliciting prostitutes whom he doesn’t even bother to draw faces on. HOW MISANDROUS!!!
@Shaenon, that was amazing. Except I didn’t realize how appaling my grammar was in that comment until you quoted me >.<
@shaenon: You’re talking about a group of people who think men are oppressed in a country where 83% of Congress and 100% of all U.S. Presidents (and now 100% of all GOP candidates) are men
It makes men wary
When you are so hairy
This one is my favorite. The simplicity really does it.
Well, if they’re doing poetry, it just screams beat poetry reading!! Just substitute Newt Gingrich for William Shatner.
http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-rim#/watch?v=vpbSwSlP4Yc