Reading this blog, you might get the impression that Men’s Rights activists lack a sense of humor. Not so! Some of them even make their own hilarious comics! I’d like to celebrate three of the finest MRA cartoons I’ve seen thus far in the first edition of what I’d like to call the MRA Comics Cavalcade. Click the thumbnails to go to the (full-sized) comics themselves.
In this edition of the popular The Pigman Cometh, the aforementioned Pigman, who has apparently killed a woman, dances with her corpse while spouting humorous remarks about how women and marriage suck. This comic is written by one dude, and drawn by another. Yes, it takes two people to produce masterpieces like this.Two separate people.
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In this NSFW cartoon found on the blog Wimminz, two evil feminists talk evilly about divorce and park in a handicapped parking space. Just like real feminists would! And then a guy has sex with, apparently, some sex dolls?
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And, finally, in this edition of plasticBrickAutomaton, an evil feminist door-to-door saleswoman tries to sell some dude a weird and incorrect caricature of postmodernism. The guy cleverly parries her attempts to indoctrinate him by attaching a baby to a balloon and letting it float away, to ultimately meet its demise. (One imagines.) This got more than 100 upvotes when it was posted to the Men’s Rights subreddit.
More MRA Comics Cavalcades to come!
@BlackBloc – Was a joke, not my painting. Nto sure why my name changed something weird.
@Cotton – Glad to see ya found out all about my blog. Curious, why did you search for me?
Actually, I call it idiot quote farming. Reasons? Snark, sympathy – the point was that there are just as many fringe batshit crazy people who hate men too.
And those folks, well, they are taking up a donations for the SPLC. Some act as if men are the sole owners of stupid. Do you believe that to be true?
Sorry, forgot where I was, need a witty comment, but I can’t think of one.
@Qanan: My SAN score still took a hit, joke or not. *shudders*
Qanan, you realize that RadFem hub isn’t mainstream feminism, whereas many of the most hateful people I quote here are the biggest and most influential names in the MRM? The guy telling a feminist that the idea of “fucking her shit up gives [him] an erection?” That’s someone you guys link to in the r/mensrights sidebar.
In other words, in the MRM misogyny is mainstream. r/mensrights basically represents the moderate wing of the MRM. And that’s scary.
Also, Qanan, how is the SPLC tainted by the fact that the RadFem hub suggests that people donate to them? The SPLC has zero control over that. I could put up a post suggesting that people donate to A Voice for Men. Would that taint them?
And one more point: while the comments from RadFem hub that you quote are awful, the RadFem hub doesn’t target individuals, and give potential vigilantes road maps to their houses. AVFM does. (And you guys still link to them in your sidebar.) That’s a gigantic fucking difference, and that’s part of what makes the MRM look a lot like a hate movement.
As I’ve said before, if you don’t want people to see the MRM as a hate movement, you need to speak up against, and throw out, the hateful people.
I have no control over the sidebar and take that quote up with Paul. I didn’t come here to defend other people. Unless you want to start talking about SRS and what they’ve done and said? I came by as a friendly stop by, I guess MRAs aren’t welcome here.
Go check out the conversation I am having with Jeremiah right now. Well goodbye!
PS Though I will say it was a bit weird one of your readers tracked down my ID. I stopped that crap on MR, while its not doxxing, it still is a bit weird.
I guess MRAs aren’t welcome here.
Did you read the tagline?
Dude, no one tracked you down with a detective. People know who you are from Reddit, and they know you have a blog. How on earth is this remotely similar to doxxing?
You may not have any control over the sidebar — wait, you are still a mod, right? — but you can certainly speak out against hateful people in your movement. You choose not to. (Oh, except for Jeremiah.)
Hey, it’s your movement, handle things however you want. Just don’t be surprised when people outside your movement criticize the hateful people within it that you’re not willing to criticize.
So if anyone disagrees with you, you flee and pretend you were driven out by meanies?
OK David, let’s bring out all the SRS stuff and how they taunted a man who very well may be dead now. Does that compute to you?
I don’t think these have been mentioned yet – Kate Beaton tried to get into the head of an MRA and found handy guides on how to spot feminists, and what they do for fun:
http://twitpic.com/8st35s
http://twitpic.com/8sta8l
(If any MRAs are looking, I’d like to point out that these are funny because they mock the utterly ludicrous things you think are true, not because they actually are true)
Qanan, whoever made those comments was acting a truly vile manner. But the only comments I saw were from a self-described MRA and another one from someone who had previously described himself as opposed to SRS. Do you have evidence that the others were SRSers? Frankly, given the frequency with which you assert things that are not true, I’m not going to take your word on it.
People troll on r/mensrights. Hell, there was someone going around there pretending to be me, as you may recall.
Also, Q, if you do have evidence that SRSers were making those comments, I urge you to send it along to the SRS mods. Or you can give it to me and I can pass it along to them.
Oops, screwed up the blockquote.
So what did SRS do, exactly?
You know what’s a really supportive environment for suicidal men?
A movement that bombards them with the messages “everyone hates you for who you are,” “there are no social resources to help you,” “if you go to the authorities for any reason they will suspect you of wrongdoing,” “almost everyone you meet is either a white knight or a feminist and will betray you,” and “if you are heterosexual you will never know real love.”
Meanwhile offering zero resources, very little in the way of even the most informal support for each other, and often actively steering guys away from gender-neutral resources because they might have icky feminist influences.
Talk about a recipe for mental health, you guys.
I just read a length Reddit thread on this topic:
http://www.reddit.com/r/antisrs/comments/qotef/srs_drives_man_to_suicide/
This whole discussion about how “SRS is driving this MRA to kill himself!” is so absurd, and reminds me why I don’t participate on Reddit to begin with. Everyone’s piling on with the SRS hate probably because SRS points out how racist, sexist, and all-around awful the rest of Reddit is.
The slant of the discussion in that above link reminds me of the MRM and their general attitude towards violence: If you’re driven to commit a violent act, it’s someone else’s fault. When Breivik committed his massacre, the leftists were to blame. When Thomas Ball lit himself on fire, the feminists were to blame. If an MRA kills himself, the feminists are to blame.
Apparently, an MRA posted on the MRM subreddit that he was going to commit suicide, and said “Time to add another notch to the statistics. I guess SRS and 2X can rejoice, one less man, one less MRA in the world.”
Then a few people came into the thread and goaded him on. Obviously, those people were evil feminazis (Elam wrote about it today, and used the words “assumed feminists”) from SRS trying to bring a man to commit suicide and couldn’t possibly be some random asshole on Reddit, because assholes on Reddit are rare.
The guy luckily was found and got help.
I hate reddit — something about the formatting makes it hard for me to read. But I went over there are read the threads all the way through. The guy himself says that he suffered from depression for years, and that it really wasn’t about anything on reddit. Terrible thing, and I hope he didn’t go through with it…
Oh yeah, you reminded me of the more important reason I don’t read reddit. The ration of assholes to non-assholes is not a favorable one.
Actually, there were two threads. One of the guys was found; the other as far as I know wasn’t, though it’s also not clear if he was trolling or what. The goading took place in the second thread.
Oy. I don’t want to read either the Reddit thread or whatever the fuck Elam has to say about it.
Wait, there were two different guys?
There’s nothing really noteworthy in Elam’s article. I do find it odd that Elam is talking about the need to find a sense of compassion and reach out to people in desperation (which is always a good message) when not too long ago he was absolutely giddy to hear that a feminist was receiving rape and death threats.
Yo, David, why does my email not work here? Why must I log in? Just interested. Thanx in advance.
Yeah the whole hounded to death thing is what the MRM is trying to do to feminists, right now.
You know if these assholes had succeeded in their stated endeavor, then they would be cheering.
Did the hounding of someone who’d said he was suicidal actually happen, or did the person just assume that it was going to happen? If it did then that certainly confirms my general impression that Reddit is 90% assholery. Something about it really brings out the worse in people.