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.
Hahahaha…yeah, and I’m the Queen of England. Sorry I don’t believe a word you say, you’ve proven yourself as disingenuous and a troll.
“It’s because men are better drivers”
Except the majority of road deaths are caused by men…
you are not doing a very good job of indicating that your frothing anger is based on something other than that thing rhymes with “tissues sith swimmin”
Oh no! Typo! Aw really? You’ll never get yourself a hot nerdy girlfriend with that attitude.
Too late.
Try again with the virgin shaming?
THINGS NEPHRITE IS NOT DOING:
-Volunteering at a men’s shelter
-Staffing a suicide hotline for men
-Tutoring boys who are struggling in school
-Supporting men’s health initiatives
-Donating to male abuse survivor networks
THINGS NEPHRITE IS DOING:
-Insulting women in furious and increasingly hilarious ways
THING NEPHRITE IS NOT DOING:
-Helping any man, anywhere, improve his life, at all
Except the majority of road deaths are caused by men…
Swerving out of the way to avoid the fucking women drivers out there. Chivalry. What the fuck is it?
Asshat: You are SO NOT the person to be talking about misspelling names! And I will put my geek cred against yours any fucking day of the week.
@Joanna: Clearly the evil women were distracting those men from the road! With their dirty pillows!
Wait. What?
So no-one has been raped for the last 40 years then?
“Try again with the virgin shaming?”
Lol! You took that waaaaaay out of context. Now I can only assume you’re a virgin XD
They controlled for that in the study, dude. Methods 101. They trained both the woman and the man to say exactly the same things. Men still got better deals.
…Pretend to be interested? Dude, I challenge you to a nerd duel. I bet my bookshelf contains at least seven fantasy authors you’ve never heard of, AND that I’ve heard of all of your top five favorites.
I’ve earned the right to not fuck up my body any more. Have you?
Huh. I don’t think that right should have to be earned. Do you?
Well, the majority of comic books I read are about women…so I guess they’re not real comic books.
“Swerving out of the way to avoid the fucking women drivers out there. Chivalry. What the fuck is it?”
Yup. Cos everyone knows women drivers drive on the wrong side of the road.
whoa thats super convenient, brah. if you hadnt pointed that out you might have had to answer some questions, try to explain things, maybe even have an original thought or two?!?
THINGS HOLLY DID TODAY:
-Feed a boy who had dangerously low blood sugar
-Put a man’s broken arm in a splint and sling
-Call social services to arrange treatment for a mentally ill man
I think we can conclude from this that I am the better MRA.
I’m a virgin. Virgins can be pretty awesome.
Of course, as Sugar Booger demonstrates, they can also be totally asshats. I like to think that unicorns avoid that sort of virgin.
There is nothing wrong with virgins. I’ve slept with all sorts of lovely, intelligent, attractive, feminist virgins. Misogynists, however, are terrible. 🙁
THINGS NEPHRITE IS NOT DOING:
-Volunteering at a men’s shelter
-Staffing a suicide hotline for men
-Tutoring boys who are struggling in school
-Supporting men’s health initiatives
-Donating to male abuse survivor networks
-What men’s shelter?
-What suicide hotline for men (not run by women who encourage them to become manginas and worship the pussy)
-I actually do do this.
-Movember. What the fuck is it?
-If any existed.
I volunteer at a community center and help teach basketball to youths without fathers. They talk to me too and I hope them through their problems, and guess what, a lot of their shit comes from abusive mothers, favored sisters, manipulative girlfriends, teachers who punish them for the crime of being born male.
Don’t fucking tell me I don’t do anything. You asshats whine on a site all day. I’m here for 2 hours and I have no life?
Fuck you.
Swerving out of the way to avoid the fucking women drivers out there. Chivalry. What the fuck is it?
OK, you can’t possibly be serious.
THINGS JOANNA DID TODAY:
-Hung out with guy friends without teasing them with my sluttiness.
Seriously, that one took a lot of effort on my part guys. I know you’re all totally impressed right now.
Asshat: Does that mean you’re leaving? Shall I cue the exit music? Can you stick the flounce or do you want to came back and call me a bitch some more?
I fed a male cat today. I also chauffeured a male roommate.
“You asshats whine on a site all day.”
Sugar Booger, are you aware of the thing called irony?
obvious troll is obvious.
You guys can have him, I’m going to eat dinner.
So tell your fellow feminists that are talking right now, to stop with the “oh you’re a loser who can’t get a date” insults. Hmmm?
If you care so much.
Again. You can claim to care about whatever you want, but actions speak louder than words.
You can claim that fire fighters should fire under qualified women, but you take no action, no lobbying, no protests, to make sure this happens.
You can claim you don’t like virgin-shaming, but you just sit back and smile when your fellow members do it.