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.
@Kathy
Have I treated you unfairly? Or are you just angry because your feminist lies are crumbling all around you? I bring facts. You bring lies. I offer truth. You offer insults.
And the TARDIS inside Asshat’s head is now threatening to collapse under the weight of all that stupid and tear a hole in the universe.
Mandy Patinkin is my favorite.
And, yes, that’s misandry.
It’s funny how every woman hating asshat here seems to have a delusion that their life is some sort of epic film and that they’re the hero conquering evil.
Lawrence of Arabia, this guy is not.
I want FACTS NOT LIES on a T-shirt now…
Giants won the superbowl.
Pats.
Not lies.
Asshat: You’ve treated everyone here like shit. And then whined when we gave some of our own back.
Um fuck off don’t tell rape survivors how they should have acted. Reporting your own rape isn’t fucking easy. Also victim blaming hellooo, society tends to ignore male rape or dismiss it. Its not their faults that “no one cares”.
Not shaming anyone at all Ozy. Just saying there should be more awareness for male survivors. No, they shouldn’t have to help themselves to for anyone to care. We also shouldn’t have needed feminism to get equal rights. Alas, society is a load of bull crap, and we do need all these movements and stuff. Sorry for heckling you there Nephy. The topic of rape culture makes me so darn mad >.<
@Amy Angelwing
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Male-star-leads-field-hockey-team-Is-he-an-unfa?urn=highschool-285871
Would you prefer it if men could play with women?
Facts.
Not lies.
Nep: Too lazy to do even a basic Google site limited seach eh?
OK!
You know, if I actually went to a Neo-Nazi site and found that like half the self-proclaimed Neo-Nazis were Jews, and the site was also run by a Jew, and a whole bunch of the non-Jews were dating/married to Jews … then yes, I actually would re-evaluate what I’ve been hearing about Neo-Nazis hating Jews.
(I don’t think this works with actual Neo-Nazis, although if you have an example of such a site I’m all ears. Uh, and in case the SUPER FEISTY CONVERSATION has moved this way out of context, it’s in reference to exactly how credible the MRM is when it says FEMINISTS HATE MEN BLARGH.)
You can’t say FactsNotLies at the end of a question, Sugar Booger. That doesn’t even make any sense.
@ozy
I just recently found out that Inigo Montoya, from my favorite film, also played Gideon on my favorite TV show, Criminal Minds. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t realized it before. My mind was blown.
Patinkins.
Not lies.
@Kathy
Do you believe it is unfair of me to know the identity of a feminist who would be providing me research in a debate between myself and a feminist?
Or should I just take feminist lies and liars at their face?
Do you hate women Nephy?
It’s like in science fiction when they break a supercomputer using a logic bomb or something and it just repeats the same phrase over and over again at an increasingly high pitch until it explodes.
Facts not lies facts not lies factsnotlies FACTSNOTLIESFACTSNOTLIES
*kaboom*
Is there a point to asking that?
If I said “no” would you believe me?
Ozyman claims to have read AVfM, yet calls them a hate group. Do they SAY that they’re a hate group? No. Does it matter? No.
I don’t hate women.
You’re going to say I hate women.
So what’s the point?
Everyone lies on the internet.
This is the truth
*EXPLODES*
Moewicus: He was also in Dead Like Me, which I’m going to watch once I’m all caught up on My Little Pony.
…Still think I’m a faux-nerd, Nephrite?
This: I’m sorry. I’m just sick of this “no one cares about male rape survivors” when they don’t do anything to help themselves
Sounds like shaming to me. You didnt just say that there should be more awareness, you said it was the male rape victims fault that no one takes them seriously just because they were afraid to report it.
Geez, looking back on it, that’s like the Godwinningest comment ever. But the conversation already went there like, uh, a page and a half back by now.
Facts.
Not lies.
Remember, kids, you can make up any shit you want as long as you tack “facts not lies” onto the end!
I rule an island called Gingerland, and on this island, my every need is attended to by my fairy servants.
Facts.
Not lies.
After getting out of the revenge business, Inigo Montoya got a BS in Criminology, studied profiling, and got a job in the FBI.
ROUSSs.
Not lies.
And I have a high IQ.