Well, my fellow feminists, we might as well pack it in. For the forces arrayed against us have a devastating, nay brutal, new slogan.
The Counter-Feminist Agent of Change (CFAC) who calls himself Fidelbogen explained in a recent post how this “wicked new slogan” came to him. Also, what the slogan is:
This occurred to me in a flash of inspiration today. I grabbed the first scrap of paper I could find and jotted it down:
Feminism spreads lies like a fly spreads germs.
You like it? I thought you would.
So . . . spread it around, and make it part of the “buzz”!
Get it? Buzz. Like, “buzz” means “what people are excitedly talking about.” But it is also the sound that a fly makes.
See, Fidelbogen is working with TWO DIFFERENT MEANINGS at once. It’s like juggling two things at once, only with your brain. No wonder some MRAs regard his as the finest mind in the Men’s Rights movement today.
Several days after The Bogen (that’s what I like to call him) came up with this masterful slogan, one artistically minded MRA took it to a whole nother level – by using the slogan in the graphic above.
As The Bogen explained in his second post about his new slogan:
Memes can take many forms, and what you see here is among the most elemental and effective of those forms.
I am posting this graphic image for anybody on the planet who wants to fly away with it and spread it around.
First with the “buzz” thing, and now “fly away with it.” LIKE FLIES DO! The man is a genius.
Hell man, you could even print it on T-shirts and coffee mugs. Certainly you can post it on your website. Best of all, you can print it on little squares of paper and leave these in all manner of places where all manner of people will happen upon them.
Oh shit. T-shirts? Mugs? Motherfucking SQUARES OF PAPER?! He’s going CROSS-PLATFORM!
This is the sort of thing that will land in people’s brains, and buzz around there, and never leave!
I explained the buzz thing already, didn’t I?
It will find its way into the general buzz of conversation, too!
Just in case you’ve forgotten. Buzz = what people are talking about. ALSO THE SOUND FLIES MAKE.
I still cannot get over how much of a genius move that whole “buzz” thing is. I don’t know how he does it.
I kindly thank St. Estephe, the blog keeper who created this. I am honored to see my words so skillfully combined with pictures, and made ten times more effective by that method.
It’s true. It takes a tremendous amount of skill to find a picture of a fly, and then to put words next to it.
How can we possibly compete with this?
I tried to come up with some slogans of my own. But the best I could do was this:
I hope you guys have some better ideas.
Try QuickMeme if you want to make a little graphic. I’ll post any especially good ones here!
EDITED TO ADD: Some more graphics that are Fidelbogenesque in their brilliance. One from Scar, one from me.
David, were you aware of the Australian term “bogan” when you came up with that?
That is some mind blowing talent right there. Wish I thought of that. I could make millions!
Oh shit, flies. We’re doomed for sure.
Truly a work of staggering genius. I shall be packing my feminist tent up forthwith*.
*not really
Puns are SO ingenious! Almost every kid’s show has a couple of these! You GO MRAs! Way to fight the feminist gynocracy!
But who are we kidding. Women have the dispositions of children. None of them could ever calculate your unfathomable genius.
“MRAs spread untruths the way a dustpan spreads that line of dust and gunk next to the very edge of the dustpan’s lip, even while you’re sweeping into it!”
Where can I apply to have this officiated as an A The Meme Thing Kids On The Internet Do? I think this one could be tenacious like that dust since it’s so catchy.
MRAs spread lies, but only on the internet, because they never actually leave their mom’s basement.
I just went to QuickMeme:
http://www.quickmeme.com/make/
lowquacks, I was not aware of the slang. It seems to be a bit of a pejorative, so that’s good.
Misogyny takes up residence in the Men’s Rights Movement, much as my boyfriend’s huge cat has taken up residence on my stomach, rendering me immobile. Only, instead of wrist licks of love, it gives you wrist licks of hate!
…Even I can’t defend this one.
There is already a meme about guys in the manosphere :
http://www.quickmeme.com/Butthurt-Dweller/
I heard a fly buzz when feminism died;
The stillness round her bed
Was like the stillness in Slut Walk
After the maginas fled.
The MRAs beside had catcalled hoarse,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when alphas
Be witnessed in their power.
She willed her burnt bras, signed away
What portion of her lies
Made men accountable,-and then
There interposed a fly,
With cold, man-hating, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and she;
And then the windows failed, and then
There ended herstory.
Oh noes! the MRAssholes have discovered that puns are really feminists double-super-sekrit kryptonite.
*is meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiing*
Whoa, man!
That’s some deep stuff! I think I’m gonna join the MRAs now. I mean, holy crap! Flies, and fly related puns! Now that’s a buzz (get it? Buzz! Like what flies do!)
I don’t think feminists can ever top that, even though the example in this post wasn’t bad.
But think about it: how many puns can you make using cats, butter and toast?
Yeah, I thought so!
Well, here’ my effort:
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo176/vexing_times/liketheplague.jpg
MRA’s lie as much as sluts.
Heh. Hehehe.
Do you get it?
Because slut’s ‘lie’ down when they have sex and ‘lie’ is the word we use when a person says something false.
I made a phrase that uses both meanings.
lowquacks…as a fellow aussie manboobzer, you beat me to it with the bogan reference. i snorted my tea out my nose when i saw David’s nickname for Fidelbogen.
so can we make this the new theme song of feminism then?
PUAs spread lies like skin diseases, which they also spread, because of that stupid goddamn PUA “touching” thing.
There once was a man named Fidelbogenus
Whose pet fly buzzed around, pokin’ us.
Us feminist liars
cursed this truth-telling flier
Yet still it flew round our heads to beholden us.
@Sharculese: I was going to go with this, but yours is more fitting:
PUAs spread lies like Alphas spread herpes, Betas spread bitterness, and Omegas spread spray cheese on a fucking cracker.
MRAs spread bad memes like a first year mass communications student with a shiny new YouTube account.
Scar, I worry that your artwork might be too subtle.
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
AND THEN SHE MADE ALL MEN HER SLAVES.