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.
The ideal solution would seem to be for them to hook up with each other and make sweet man love.
No bitches involved. A win for everyone!
The ideal solution would seem to be for them to hook up with each other and make sweet man love.
No bitches involved. A win for everyone!
If an MRA said the solution for abused girls was to make sweet lesbian love. What would the Manboobz community say?
I’m being serious here.
Those are real fucking boys you just talked about.
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.
Why so serious?
Nephy darlin’, you still haven’t told me how many years you served in the Armed Forces.
Nephrite: 1in6.com. You can say thank you now. 🙂
Oh fuck, you guys, he grew a mustache. I’m gonna guess he didn’t give any money. Just the mustache. That’ll do.
And as for the “there’s no such thing”–then start one! You think feminists were just sitting around on the Internet… er, mailing each other letters, I guess… talking about how men should all be beaten and raped, and then the Fairy Godmother gave them some fully built and staffed women’s shelters as a magical gift?
…oh fuck, you probably think exactly that.
Asshat: You, serious? HA! (And I am fully good with man and/or woman love so long as there is enthusiastic consent on both sides)
There is nothing worse than talking about “real fucking boys” as if they could be *gasp* homosexuals!
It’s a funny world we live in.
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.
Show me the study?
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.
Did I ever claim to be a nerd? (Assumptions, assumptions. Yet another time I’ve not said something that people here have assumed.) It’s nice that your boyfriend has a bookshelf with names of authors. Congratulations! I can read the names of authors off of books too!
I bought some Girl Scout cookies today, because I am an evil scorpion lady furthering the Feminist Agenda.
lol, you cannot possibly be serious
Oh fuck, you guys, he grew a mustache. I’m gonna guess he didn’t give any money. Just the mustache. That’ll do.
And women did a slut walk.
Or started a pink ribbon campaign.
Oh my, you just wore a pink ribbon!
We start our own campaigns, and you mock us.
I thought you WANTED us to do activism? And when we do, you boil down an actual real campaign about raising money for cancer to: “he grew a mustache”.
Wait a sec, some guy’s girlfriend not putting out on demand (boohoo) is not the equivalent of a woman getting her jaw broken by her boyfriend for not putting out.
You don’t seem to know what ‘abused’ means.
why do so many of our trolls write like they just got kicked off the high school debate team? is this a thing with mras?
Why so serious?
Because they dismissed actual work with boys? Because they talked about abused boys as if they’re just sexual fantasies?
@Scar: Abused means not being a woman, of course! What are you, new?
Nephrite: My boyfriend tends more towards the gaming/webcomics end of nerddom (although he totally got me addicted to Oglaf, which is awesome). I hold down the fantasy/SF side of the fort myself. 🙂
Also, how charming of you to assume I’m a girl! Who’s making an ass out of u and me now?
In general, people concerned about the proper spelling of Wil Wheaton’s name are nerds.
Also:
Ayres, Ian, “Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations,” Harvard Law Review, volume 104 (4), February 1991, pages 817-872.
Ayres, Ian and Siegelman, Peter. “Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New
Car.” American Economic Review, June 1995, 85(3), pp. 304″“21.
Harless D.W., Hoffer G.E., Do Women Pay More for New Vehicles? Evidence from Transaction Price Data, The American Economic Review, Volume 92, Number 1, 1 March 2002, pp. 270-279.
Fiona Scott Morton, Florian Zettelmeyer, Jorge Silva-Risso, Consumer Information and Discrimination: Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Volume 1, Issue 1, Mar 2003, Pages 65 – 92
Really? I guess the support I gave to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand was all imaginary then.
Huh.
Oh well, if it isn’t appreciated…
besides being dumb and lazy, what prompted you to single out an organization that has been under heavy criticism from feminists for the entirety of last week?
why do so many of our trolls write like they just got kicked off the high school debate team? is this a thing with mras?
How about we actually debate then?
I’ve been mocked, I’ve had my volunteering mocked. The boys I’ve worked with that you don’t even know, were mocked.
When I get angry that you’re mocking abused boys, that gets mocked.
Even Ozyman, who claims to care about the men hasn’t said a word against that. You don’t have to like me to care about the boys I work with do you? I thought you wanted to help people, not hate people right?
Well, did you raise any money for cancer? Or did you just grow the mustache, feel self-satisfied, and leave it at that?
Me, I worked as first aid staff on a breast cancer walk, and the people there weren’t walking just to say they walked and go home happy. They were giving, in some cases, thousands of dollars apiece. (I didn’t have thousands but I did donate some money as well as my time.)
If you think a breast cancer walk means you literally just walk, well… says more about you than us.
Well, did you raise any money for cancer? Or did you just grow the mustache, feel self-satisfied, and leave it at that?
What do you think?
Why did you assume the worst?
If you think a breast cancer walk means you literally just walk, well… says more about you than us.
I don’t. I was pointing out to you how all activism can be boiled down to something that, out of context, seems ridiculous. Like how you said “he grew a mustache”.
Leonato: Neighbors, you are tedious.
Dogberry: It pleases your Worship to say so, but we are the poor duke’s officers. But truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
Leonato: …All thy tediousness on me?