A startling new development on the frontiers of anti-male oppression. According to the loquacious lady MRA known as girlwriteswhat on Reddit, men are being oppressed by evil feminist dudes cruelly clamping down on their right to bitch about ladies in the bathroom. In a recent comment she writes:
No space is allowed to be male-only, or male-viewpoint-only, but women insist on female-only or female-viewpoint-only spaces all the time.
The only male safe space left on the planet is the men’s bathroom, ffs. And even then, there will be feminist-leaning men policing what is said. It’s very frustrating.
As a dude feminist who is a regular user of men’s restrooms, I should note that dudes do not actually talk in restrooms.
Happily, this does not prevent me, as a dude feminist, from policing the non-existent speech of other dudes in said restrooms.
Here is the complete transcript of a restroom discussion I recently policed:
Dude One: [silently urinates]
Dude Two: [silently urinates]
Dude Three: [silently poops]
Me: Goddessdamnit, keep it down with all your lady-bashing! Men are bad!
Always glad to help.
HT to Shit Reddit Says, which has just ended its month-long moratorium on r/mensrights posts, for pointing me to girlwriteswhat’s observation.
If that dude’s post didn’t read like every other internet warrior I’ve seen, I would find you even more disgusting for this defense than I do right now.
And yet you want a world where we’re so seperate and immersed in VR that your wife and niece wouldn’t even get a postcard from you.
See, I would, because there are vanishingly few places to do that.
The MRM, providing safe spaces for villainous rants since the suffrage movement.
derail warning…is this our beloved Brandon? i post this and apologise if you all have seen it already….http://whywomenhatemen.blogspot.com.au/2009/12/wwhm-blames-porn-vol-xxxxvi-lecture.html and apologies if i break the board, i’m HTML clueless and throw myself on David’s mercy
Asshole doesn’t count as a gender, sorry.
Ah, my bad, I hadn’t heard about her being a rape victim. All I’d ever seen was weird Reddit comments like this one and a conversation in her Youtube comments about her book writing. Certainly I wouldn’t accuse her of lying about being raped, although that leads to me to wonder why she’d be in support of a movement that seeks to basically legalize rape? Perhaps it’s a version of the “try to act like it’s not a big deal” coping mechanism that’s so common? Well now I kinda just feel sorry for her.
Initially when I read “female MRA” I thought probably a dude pretending to be a woman so as to give his statement a faux-nonsexist-legitimacy (like white people who pretend to be black when commenting on how something obviously racist is not).
But once I saw that this girl actually thinks guys are chatting away to each other when pissing side by side I have to accept the fact that it is a woman writing. How depressing.
And yes guys. When women go to the bathroom together in a restaurant it is usually to have a chat about you while they’re in there. You can stop scratching your heads over it and writing stand up jokes about it now
Gotta love the way Antz has avoided the question about the Texas bill for about 70 posts now.
Hey Antz! Does ‘who shall willfully thereafter, having the means to do so’ mean anything to you? Have you read the bill that you’ve come here to ‘educate’ us all about, or are you ready to admit that you’re a fucking liar?
AntZ:
So now you’re an expert on Australian law and social policy.
We are not Americans. Our legal system differs from yours and so does our culture.
Actually, my only problem with the policy you linked to is that it doesn’t acknowledge that men can be victims of domestic violence as well. I see nothing wrong with educating the community about domestic violence, or having media campaigns, or beefing up laws and so on. They need to make it clear, however that men can be victims too and they need the same protection.
Hmm…maybe time to write a letter to Ms Gillard and see what my friends in the men’s movement here are doing about it.
Oh, and you might as well stop with the ridiculous hyperbole. It makes you sound silly. You might also stop calling us bigots when some of us a. Actually agree with some of the things you are saying and b. Some of us, however mistakenly are trying to engage with you.
I am Anthony Zarat,
I am a soldier in a gender war. I am not insignificant. I am an MRA solider. My leader Paul Elam described me as a good MRA solider.
I am a fraud. I lied about frightening a young woman in a pharmacy. I wish I did do that but I didn’t. I lie all the time. I lie about having children. I am unmarried. I don’t have children
But I lie for a cause; I am a solider in a gender war. My life has meaning. I fight for a cause.
I am a solider in a gender war. My life has meaning. I fight for a cause.
I am a solider in a gender war. My life has meaning. I fight for a cause.
I am a solider in a gender war. My life has meaning. I fight for a cause.
Yo are all bigots, are all bigots, are all bigots.
I am a solider in a gender war. My life has meaning. I fight for a cause.
Happy, David has already told you to tone that stuff down hasn’t he? I don’t really want to be in the position of defending the disingenuous little shit, but I don’t see what accusing him of lying about unrelated things will achieve.
Maybe, like the decades before them, if MRAs started listening to The Smiths songs they wouldn’t be so “Angsty”…?
Cause, Heaven knows I’m miserable now…
Ants, I saw on a recent spreadhead post (thanks explore nature) that you promoted non marriage and kids but here you aim to have a wife and two sons? Which is it?
Cause heaven knows you’re miserable now.
*claim
@ Caraz
If he has, I’ve never seen it, no.
I base my comments on Antz on what I have read by and about him.
He did claim to frighten a woman in a pharmacy and has also said that he lies to (those he deems) feminists. So he’s a liar who enjoys, or fantasises about, frightening women.
I don’t see the controversy?
I feel like Morrissey would be kind of offended to be associated with Antz, even in jest.
“GWW seems unable to acknowledge the significance of the misogyny she herself has experienced in the MRM.”
She understands it, and so do I. There are occasional bad apples, and the MRM is probably overdue for some housekeeping work.
Antz, are you totally out of your mind? Occasional bad apples? Who, in your opinion, are these bad apples?
@ Anthony Zarat
Here’s yet another instance where you lie;
http://www.gossipextra.com/2011/10/24/lawsuit-homeless-man-used-for-police-target-practice/
Explain the feminist motivation of the police officers attacking this homeless man?
Or do you consider any act of violence against men as a result of feminism?
This is what I meant (apologies if the link doesn’t work)
http://manboobz.com/2012/01/25/quiz-how-did-reddits-atheist-community-responded-to-a-womans-account-of-rape/comment-page-2/#comment-116952
Explore nature,
Well now that you’ve discovered our frozen clone army, be prepared to kiss the country formerly known as the US goodbye! Mwahahahaha!
We’ve been infiltrating the former nation for decades, starting with California by sending our best: the snowbirds!
Feminist Womens Canada will RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!
***though we might be willing to share with Sweden and Denmark*
@Happy
Regarding the homeless man who was beaten by police, here is my exact quote:
“Another example of feminist violence. The tireless feminist campaign to paint every man as a perpetrator, and every woman as a victim, is an act of mass violence by proxy. This man is just one example of millions. Law enforcement, the court system, and political institutions are completely corrupted by the feminist message of anti-male hatred.
Feminists: clean your hands if you want, but the blood that you have shed will never wash off.”
How is this ambiguous in any way? There is no “feminist motivation of the police officers attacking this homeless man”. Motivation has nothing to do with it. The bedrock of feminist funding and power is the message that “all men perpetrators, all women victims”. That message, which gives so many of you careers and funding, creates the conditions for this kind of (all too common) assault.
So you accept that there was no “feminist motivation” behind this man’s attack but still claim that it was an example of feminist violence?
Can you see the rather obvious disconnect?
Police officers attack a homeless person. The homeless person is a man. A man is hurt. Therefore the attack was a feminist attack.
Were homeless men NOT attacked before feminism?
Zarat, does it having such intelligence and logic deficiences physically hurt? You are obsessed and misguided to an almost equal degree.
When you (verbally) attacked the young woman in the pharmacy, was it a feminist attack? Because she is a woman and you are a man, and you were driven to attack her (verbally) because of she is a woman and feminism has “forced” you to act in a certain way?
Is Happy really in trouble for calling one of our parallel universe trolls a *liar*? He did it on this very thread, at least 3 times. The rest of us are still taunting him about his inability to read the very law he claimed would teach us.
@ Rutee
I think it’s because I said he lied about specific, personal details he has given about himself.
I’ve no problem with the warning I was given and will act accordingly.
He is a fool of epic proportions, his own words expose him far better than I can.
So I believe the same things as the captain, and according to antz this means I would be violently assaulted for saying this to a feminist…but I AM a feminist….holy shit! No wonder I wake up so stiff in the morning!!
Ant Antz, get rid of the hateful thinking about women and what should be done with women, and I will consider joining the MRM. Until then, you and I will not see eye to eye.
I think it was Quackers that Antz said would be assaulted by other feminists for zir beliefs, not I.
That’s pretty much the entire movement. There isn’t an MRM except to hurt women.
The Father’s Right’s movement is little better, as it distorts facts in its claims, though it’s hurting kids in general.
Incidental note regarding joint custody as the rule:
Keep in mind we’re in a culture where fathers don’t typically take that much role in their kids lives prior to a divorce. I’ve got no problem with it when we’re talking about, you know, real dads, but as the general rule of law, it strikes me as blazingly stupid until we see a massive shift in parenting.