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.
Were those links written by guys that died after the fact? If not, no dice, dude.
Keep trying.
So only if the man is DEAD, does an article count?
“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.”
Would you have the balls to go to the authorities and report that you were raped? Honestly?
So unless you’ve actually DIED of homelessness, you can’t write about homelessness.
I notice that Ozyman writes about this stuff all the time (from a watered down “feminist’ perspective). I’m assuming that Ozyman is not dead.
I say this, Nephrite, because you KEEP GENDERING RAPE. People who are aware of male rape survivors, including many feminists, tend not to refer to survivors as “she”, at least not without acknowledging that male rape survivors also exist.
And nonbinary rape survivors, but I suppose that’s Advanced Class.
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.
Yet this doesn’t apply to the MRM. You’ve all assumed so much of me simply because I’m a declared MRA.
If millions–meaning at least two million, right?–men die each day, then the US should run out of men in, like, three months.
(I actually did the math on this.)
I’m curious exactly how feminism is killing these men, though. Maybe Nephrite really does think hospitals have secret mangrinders.
I’ve personally been responsible for the death of 28,963 men.
Mostly just from being a woman in IT and taking food out of the mouths of more deserving men.
I say this, Nephrite, because you KEEP GENDERING RAPE. People who are aware of male rape survivors, including many feminists, tend not to refer to survivors as “she”, at least not without acknowledging that male rape survivors also exist.
And nonbinary rape survivors, but I suppose that’s Advanced Class.
I keep gendering rape in the context of the justice system and how IT treats rape, and who IT cares about.
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen
Russell Hoban’s Frances series (I’ve got all of them except A Bargain for Frances)
The Poky Little Puppy, Janette Sebring Lowrey
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
Perfect the Pig, Susan Jeschke
The Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss
Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss
Several Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter books
Several Berenstain Bears books
One Morning in Maine, Robert McCloskey
The Monster at the End of This Book
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
Curious George, Margret and H.A. Rey
Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
Strega Nona, Tomie de Paola
I also have a picture book adaptation of The Dark Knight, but really I only have that for my own amusement, because the changes made to make it suitable for children are really funny.
Please, try to keep up and pay attention.
Another assumption.
No, dude, we assume stuff of you because you’re an asshole.
Bored now. I want to go back to talking about books.
Protip: most of the women who write about being raped and abused have been raped and abused.
My bookshelf:
Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer)
Runaways (Brian K. Vaughan and others)
Alanna and In The Hand of the Goddess (Tamora Pierce)
Kyonyuu Hunter, Kaseijin Deka, Sea People Anchovy (Yasunaga Koichirou — no, you haven’t heard of these, NOBODY has heard of these, he’s like some weird cult genius except the cult only has me in it)
Various things by William Sleator (the Interstellar Pig guy — he did other stuff too!)
Hunger Games series (Suzanne Collins)
The Space Trilogy (C.S. Lewis)
Nemi (Lise Myhre) (I bought these last two at the same time and put them next to each other to see if they’d kill each other)
Carrie (Stephen King)
Pepper Penwell and the Land Creature of Monster Lake (by ME!!)
And like a gazillion other things. That’s just what was on top.
Regarding what the thread was originally about (boy, it’s fun coming when there’s 200 comments), copying your message and leaving it lying everyone is a sure way to convert people. People certainly won’t just find it and mock the crap of it! Why, just ask Jack Chick!
It was Captain Pervy Pants (Nephrite) who changed it to ‘boys’.
Hey, since when was he promoted to equal rank with me?
Now, dude, this is how you don’t erase male rape survivors!
“Blah blah blah misogyny about rape. Of course, none of this applies to male survivors, who are lucky if their rape qualifies as being illegal. Blah blah misogyny.”
Sugar Booger, our assumptions are really more based in the fact that you’re a dick than they are in your MRA identification.
Seriously, Nephy, what would you do if you were raped?
The MRM is a lot smaller and a lot nastier.
Also, um… don’t you hate women? I’m surprised you’re upset by that allegation. Shouldn’t you be telling us “fuck yes, I hate women?” How are you offended by being told that you hate the people you hate?
You’ve said here that women don’t work, can’t drive, control a hate movement that controls the world, and are responsible for killing “millions of men each day.” Are you sure you don’t hate us?
Because if I thought all those things were true of a group, fuck, of course I’d hate them, and I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it.
I am not ashamed to admit that the top row of my bookshelf (I have one, my fiancé has about 5 bookshelves) is predominantly Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Fighting Fantasy books.
A feminist claiming to not erase male rape victims.
Rich.
@Steph: Tamora Pierce is fantastic! I really need to start collecting the Circle of Magic trilogy.
@joanna
i am still skeptical
I mean series. It’s not a trilogy.
You’ve said here that women don’t work, can’t drive, control a hate movement that controls the world, and are responsible for killing “millions of men each day.” Are you sure you don’t hate us?
I have said those things haven’t I?
“I also have a picture book adaptation of The Dark Knight, but really I only have that for my own amusement, because the changes made to make it suitable for children are really funny.”
… w… wow. Now THAT I am very curious about.