Guess who got trolled on April Fool’s Day? Hint: It rhymes with “Glen’s Brights Pubreddit”

I think it’s perfectly possible to hold people responsible for their actions while at the same time identifying social issues that might be one of the underlying causes for those actions being more or less prevalent. For instance, I think many men are ill-served by the standards of toxic masculinity we are subjected to, which may well lead to a higher incidence rate of violence than there would otherwise be.

And I’m happy to help and work with those people. People who just want to use their anger as an excuse to attack innocent people and whine about how it’s too haaaard to do anything else? Fixing them is not my problem.

There’s a bit in the KKK story where the writer comments that if he was Martin Luther King, he’d find some way to turn what he’s seeing into an inspiring speech about how we’re all brothers and can find common ground, but he’s not MLK. That’s about where I am. I know from my Catholic upbringing that I’m no saint. I’ll stick to trying to help people who want to be helped, thanks.

Fortunately, there are plenty of men out there who are concerned about actual men’s issues.

So…let me get this straight…a lie isn’t bad as long as it reinforces MRA bullshit?

Haha, like THAT is anything new?

Also, as a nerdy man who doesn’t fit the so called “Masculine Ideal” perfectly, kindly fuck off, Mags. LBT made some good points and you just zeroed in on some nonsense.

How much do you wanna bet the MRAs are cooking up a counter-troll scheme to pose as a crazed feminist cliché of some sort to see if we bite?

One of them comes up with that idea every couple of months. It generally goes like this:

TotallyARealFeministLady: Since it’s just us girls, let’s dish. We secretly think men are evil and we’re planning to steal all their money and sperm and then kill them with the lasers in our vaginas, right?

Manboobz: What? No.

TotallyARealFeministLady: YES YOU ARE I KNOW YOU ARE YOUR INFERIOR FEMALE BRAINS ARE FILLED WITH PLOTS AGAINST ME I JUST KNOW IT

shaenon: I remember an incident like that last year; the phrase “the truth is our ally” was used.

The response was mostly “lol, srsly?”

Also, I kinda love how these MRAs keep telling me they care about men’s rights, and then when I start talking to them about my ideas, they immediately discount me and toss me out.

It’s like they only care about CERTAIN men’s rights, guys!

I think that there are lots of guys that are hurting and confused, but have no societally accepted way to communicate their pain but through anger.

Women have to put up with more shit than I ever will as a man–always have, for millennia–and yet moderate feminists aren’t talking about inflicting pain on people to make their situation in life better.

If the worldwide plague of violence that MRAs so often gleefully fantasize about were to actually occur (It won’t), do you think you’d be spared, Mags? Do you think MRAs would say, “Oh, you’re one of the good women. We’ll be nice to you”?

Re LBT: “toxic masculinity” – Bah! Buzz word for ideologue. We get it, you think there is something wrong with men and masculintiy. “Why can’t a man be more like a woman?” Cliche.

What the shit, Mags? Can you MRAs not fail at anything? Toxic Masculinity is the idea that some aspects of masculine gender roles are fucking harmful; like, you know, the fucking violence play. I thought you assholes allegedly cared about the fact that men are more frequently victims of violence? That’s part of why; the idiotic gender roles that tell men to escalate conflicts and that violence is an acceptable response to conflict. If not being violent is ‘like a woman’, then yes, men should be more like women in this regard. It’s not a difficult concept that violence should be downplayed.

But then it is said that there is a backlash against women’s rights.

How can this be possible?

Do you idiots think you invented misogyny? People have been fighting against feminism since before most of you morons were born. You can’t take credit for shit that existed well before your movement, that continues without using your movement.

RE: Crumbelievable

The quote is also a FLAT OUT LIE. I am a man. I know what pain and confusion are like. I’ve reached points where I communicated my pain in destructive ways.

But you know what? I chose to do that by starving myself and smashing my hands against bricks and concrete. And you know what? I CHOSE to do that. I hate that I was in such a terrible way that I felt those were the least harmful ways to survive, but I still CHOSE to do them. I caused myself damage, but I still prevented myself from harming anyone else. My abusers didn’t “make me” hurt myself. I hurt myself.

And now, I’m learning other ways of dealing with that. I cry or color pixels one at a time or exercise or fight with trolls on the Internet or listen to music or create works of art. And if I can do it, other men can do it.

And if they can’t, that’s why our mental health system EXISTS.

Man, you’re having a hissy fit over substantiating a claim, aren’t you? Regardless, “People here say” would still be better than the vague (and poorly constructed) “It is said”.

“Doing nothing” is always supposed to be a valid option, but the point is to stimulate conversation about why you would make the choice you do. It’s kind of like a non-time-sensitive Kobayashi Meru; the point isn’t to try to win (Unless you’re an egotist, like Kirk), the point is to see how you arrive at a particular conclusion.

But you somehow knew what B_n stood for. Have you never read a murder mystery?

“But you somehow knew what B_n stood for. Have you never read a murder mystery?”

Really hard to figure out, no it isn’t. How many other commenters have had their first letter B and last n?

And shortening names like that I’ve mostly seen in order not profane divine names.

Also, I have the first letter B and the last letter n, although I am not like Brandon, in that I have never been banned for rape threats.