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.
We assume the worst because you’re kind of an asshole, dude.
Personally, I give 1% of my income to relief of neglected tropical diseases in Africa, because I’m a charity hipster like that. (Plus additional for-the-fun-of-it donations, mostly to RAINN, Planned Parenthood, and Just Detention.)
Asshat: Jesus god, you’re living up to your name. Hey, let’s look at the fist page on MY kindle: Three books in the Bookman series by Lavie Tidhar, two by Jack Weatherford (his bio of Genghis Khan and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens), The Gumshoe, the Witch and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman (a completely bonkers near future urban fantasy noir that’s so good!), World War Z, and the Palidin’s Legacy books by Elizabeth Moon (new one coming later this month, so I’m re reading). History and fantasy – I’m such a geek!
because formal debate is a tepid simulacrum of human interaction reserved for the type that worships power for powers sake
or
i can’t debate with a tantrum, brah
take your pick.
Why so serious?
Because they dismissed actual work with boys? Because they talked about abused boys as if they’re just sexual fantasies?
Oh lighten up, Francis. You were pissed because they accused you of not doing anything to help men or boys.
Nephrite, I just hope you aren’t sharing your opinions about women with those boys.
And not just for women’s sake. For the boys. So that when they grow up in a world where they’ll be working with women, they’ll be in social circles with women, they’ll have women as clients or customers, they’ll have female neighbors, and most of them will be loving women–so they can fucking cope with that.
To be honest with you, the MRM has hurt very few women. (Although God knows they’d like to; are you even going to deny that?) What it’s really hurt is men. Men being taught that they have no chance in a world of women, men being taught to be constantly on the defensive, men being taught that their gender has no resources and no hope and their only options are violence or despair.
Although I have no doubt that MRA ideas have gotten a few women abused, I think they’ve put many more men into an absurd, pathetic state of confinement in their own basements.
For example, I can boil down Ozyman’s work at NSWATM as being “just typing on the keyboard”.
(please don’t take “basement” pejoratively. I’m sure there are also many MRM-influenced men hiding from the world and missing out on life in ground-level and upper-story dwellings.)
I think that if you’d given money, you’d have said so. So your “hmm, what do you think?” is stalling for time before you nerve yourself up to just lie.
Is there something about the “dias” in Ozy’s name that’s difficult to type? Couldn’t you just shorten it to Ozy?
For people who find me boring, when I suggested that you were all faux geeks, suddenly you’re falling all over yourselves to give me book names, author names, and everything. I thought I was just “trollin'” I thought I was boring, and you didn’t care about what I thought of you?
I thought “negging” didn’t work?
And also, if you’re that fucking concerned with how total strangers spell Wheaton’s name, perhaps you might want to take a look at Wheaton’s Law?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Wheaton#Wheaton.27s_law
Yeah, I remember that big detailed lists of names I gave you.
Oh wait. That didn’t happen. Silly me, I just can’t remember things in my little feminist mind!
I think that if you’d given money, you’d have said so. So your “hmm, what do you think?” is stalling for time before you nerve yourself up to just lie.
I thought I was always lying? Now, apparently I’ve always been telling the truth.
It’s like if you said you participated in the breast cancer walk. I think most people would assume that involves raising money.
That you assumed it must not because I’m an MRA says a lot more about how bitter and jaded feminists have become.
Showing you just how many ways we’re better than you ain’t exactly fucking you, buddy.
Misspelling Wil Wheaton’s name is misandry.
Asshat: I was actually more concerned by your implication that women don’t read fantasy (your ‘subtle’ jab about ‘your boyfriend’s bookshelf’). I referenced my own reading, which includes a lot of fantasy at the moment. Not a lot of SF, but there’s not much written SF that I’ve liked lately.
@ozyman if you want to continue this discussion, then you actually need to provide me with links since I can’t just pluck out studies whenever I want. I don’t have access to what you do.
Given the history of feminist lies, (which again, nobody has so far refuted) I want to have something I can read now.
ooooooorrrrr, youre at a blog full of people who jump at every opportunity to talk about nerd shit?
but hey, truth is malleable, so whichever answer best justifies your conviction that girls have cooties, son
KathleenB | February 5, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Asshat: I was actually more concerned by your implication that women don’t read fantasy (your ‘subtle’ jab about ‘your boyfriend’s bookshelf’). I referenced my own reading, which includes a lot of fantasy at the moment. Not a lot of SF, but there’s not much written SF that I’ve liked lately.
Why do you care what I think?
@Kathleen: You wanna go old school with SF. Philip K Dick ftw ^_^
Wil Wheaton himself is misandry. Making fun of that perfect male example he played on Star Trek? Clearly he is saying men are worthless!
Oooh, are we posting our bookshelves now? The books that are on the top shelf of my bookshelf are:
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
An old issue of Bitch magazine
Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Bill Willingham, Thessaly Witch For Hire
Kurt Busiek, Astro City Local Heroes
The Faded Sun, CJ Cherryh
The Marx and Engels Reader
The complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
When The Center Is On Fire, Diane Harriford and Becky Thompson
Delilah Lane, Noah Brand
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
Why Orwell Matters, Christopher Hitchens
His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik
Passage, Connie Willis
Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
The Confidential Clerk, T. S. Eliot
The Complete Ann Bradstreet
A Poulin’s Contemporary American Poetry. Third Edition
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
Assorted Muppets videos
Fight Club the movie
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
Young Frankenstein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV series
ooooooorrrrr, youre at a blog full of people who jump at every opportunity to talk about nerd shit?
Except they’re telling me that this is proof against what I said. They aren’t saying it in a vacuum, they aren’t even claiming it’s in a vacuum. It’s a direct response to my little “neg”. (If you believe in that stuff)
“Why do you care what I think?”
You seem to imply that we should, what with you yelling your opinions and stuff.