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.
“also, my dad is a more legit nerd than any of you because when bladerunner first came out he refused to let the people he saw it with walk out of the theater”
OMG, that is so my dad. Have you played the Blade Runner game?
But it’s a minor bit of poor taste compared to the poor taste of belonging to a hate movement.
So quit.
Damn, I forgot to include John Dos Passos’s America trilogy on my list. But hey, now I have an excuse to list my DVDs:
Jacob’s Ladder
American Psycho
Wall-E
Mary Poppins
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
It
Breakfast on Pluto
Watching the Detectives
2001: A Space Odyssey
Batman: The Animated Series Season 1
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
…millions of men are dying because of feminism. Really.
And I also think the “boys should have sex with each other” was in poor taste, and I think volunteering to help boys is really cool! 🙂
For the record, I never said ‘boys’. I said men. It was Captain Pervy Pants (Nephrite) who changed it to ‘boys’.
Anyway, would hooking up with a hot dude be the perfect way to ‘neg’ your girlfriend for ‘abusing’ you by not putting out?
Yo, you realize that most crimes don’t need video tape of violent resistance to be convicted for, right?
Most crimes don’t rely on a single witness statement from the accuser involving an act that might or might not be illegal depending on how she felt that day.
@Ozy: I haven’t read that, but I love Ray Bradbury. I’ll definitely have to check that out.
@joanna
i refuse to play games based on sf stories that arent ‘i have no mouth and i must scream’ because absent the direct involvement of the writer, theyre going to screw things up
And I also think the “boys should have sex with each other” was in poor taste, and I think volunteering to help boys is really cool! 🙂
Thank you.
No, that was me. Duh.
Are you a homophobe or something?
No. I just don’t think joking about abused children is funny.
I could also go into my children’s book collection, since I have part of it with me for my children’s lit class.
Ozy: It’s just The Gamers. I think… yep. It’s much lower budget and the only woman is… not very nice. I liked Dorkness Rising a lot more.
@Sharculese: No, no. It rocks. I mean it. A bit aged at this stage but it was a solid game and true to Blade Runner.
actually a lot of prosecutions come down to a single eyewitness statement…
I love “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”! I’ve never played the game, though.
I’m actually not a member of The Feminist Movement, per se. I mean, it’s not like I have a membership card or go to official events or get a newsletter.
I’m simply an individual with interests like combating sexual violence, improving women’s healthcare, and dismantling harmful gender roles.
There are other individuals like me whom I like to hang out with.
Together, we form the feminist movement.
Dude, you were the one who brought up having sex with kids.
You’re fucking sick.
He tried this already. Last time it was “Millions of men die each day”, and DSC shut him down by pointing out fewer people total die (By a wide margin). X3
Nephrite: It is really not hard not to rape someone. I’ve been having sex with girls for quite a while and haven’t raped any. The key thing here is to make sure that the people you are having sex with want to have sex with you!
Also, you are aware that men can be raped, right?
@Scarry
http://thepatriotdad.wordpress.com/national-debt-and-the-subtle-subversion-of-truth/
http://www.thereformedbuddhist.com/2011/10/how-national-organization-of-womens.html
http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/mens-rights-feminism/rape-and-murder-of-males-deemed-irrelevant
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/mens-health-the-forgotten/
for starters
“Millions of men die each day”
So that’s why there are so few men in the world today.
Seriously, what?
Were those links written by guys that died after the fact? If not, no dice, dude.
Keep trying.
Also, you are aware that men can be raped, right?
What? No!
Really?
Can you be any more condescending? That’s yet another assumption people have made here.
It’s feminism and the feminist state, justice system and society who doesn’t know men can be raped, and if they do know, they don’t care.
Millions of men are dying because of feminism.
Ye Gods, it really is like the Holocaust! Oh, wait, no it isn’t.