Over on A Voice for Men, Paul Elam is knocking the clichés out of the park! In a post about … oh, something about feminists being about to get their big comeuppance, who the fuck cares, all his posts are pretty much the same at this point, he explains how the mean feminists’
gravy train is about to derail, and that right quickly. One set of wheels is already off the track. … the choo choo is hittin’ poo poo.
That’s right, the metaphorical feminist gravy train is metaphorically derailing into a metaphorical mountain of metaphorical poop.
After a few more paragraphs of this poopery, Elam offers up a bit of inspiration for his troops:
[T]he times they are a changing. The worm is turning and lies are burning. Their whole house of cards is about to go up in a puff. What you are seeing is just the desperation that comes with them waking up to it.
Believe me, it does my heart good. Just to see their frantic scrambling to point the finger at me and my brothers, while they comically pretend our sisters aren’t standing right next to us, every time one more their lies bites the dust, is an absolute highlight in my day.
Must be time to crank up the action around here.
And then he really kicks it into high gear:
Keep your eye on the ball, boys. Put the pedal to the metal. Wake up and smell the coffee, feminists, because the shoe is on the other foot now! We’re burning the candle at both ends — because when the going gets tough the tough get going. What goes around comes around. Feminists and manginas, you made your bed, now you’re going to have to lie in it. The tide’s beginning to turn, all you gender ideologues and your lackeys at the SPLC, and it looks like there’s a new sheriff in town! Remember, nice guys finish last. And it ain’t over till the fat lady sings!
Ok, that’s not really Elam any more. That’s just a bunch of random clichés borrowed from Steve’s Cliché List, with some references to feminists and manginas and the Southern Poverty Law Center shoved in here and there.
Huh. I think I just figured out how Elam writes his posts.
EDITED TO ADD: For whatever reason, this post is no longer up at AVFM; here’s the Google cache version. Read the comments there too; quite a little shitstorm going on there.
BTW @ David
The link says I hate Dr Tara. Was he claiming that feminists hate Dr Tara, or was he attacking her? I thought she was one of their ilk. One of their “sisters” as it were 😎
@Falconer
My my! Does this mean the MRAs are busier than a one-legged man in an asskicking contest?
Them boys is ’bout as sharp as a cue ball.
Feminists and manginas, you made your bed, now you’re going to have to lie in it.
I did just this morning, actually. Slept wonderfully, despite my back acting up again, and then had other fun activities in it. I’m glad you approve!
Weird that they took the post down. I wonder if there was something scandalous in it that I missed. I really didn’t read it very carefully becuase, well, life is short and Paul Elam posts are long. And they’re all pretty much interchangable at this point. But it did exist! The quotes are real!
https://www.google.com/search?q=times+they+are+a+changing.+The+worm+is+turning+and+lies+are+burning.+Their+whole+house+of+cards+is+about+to+go+up+in+a+puff.+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
As for the “I hate Dr. Tara,” he was being sarcastic; he was defending himself against charges of misogyny by pointing out that there are several women he likes and that like him back.
Just to clarify, the first two red quotes really are from his post; only the last one is me.
And, yes, he was talking about setting a house of cards on fire rather than just, you know, knocking it over.
Now I wonder if anyone has set a house of cards on fire. Off to youtube ….
Yes, someone has set a house of cards on fire.
i like how the one kid is like ‘that’s insane. that’s sick.’
you guys set some cardboard on fire, it’s not exactly the hindenburg explosion.
And it was some pretty simply arranged cardboard.
PIkers.
MRAs can’t write for shit. That’s right. I said it.
I still don’t really understand… exactly what form is this “comeuppance” going to take? All feminists rounded up at gunpoint to serve as slaves in their underground man caves?
It’s an absolute oyster carnival.
I’d really appreciate MRAs finding an editor that is actually good; on their best days, they’re nowhere near good enough to justify not having one. And their ‘best days’ are appallingly rare (Speaking strictly of writing quality; they always suck at content)
Since it’s inception, the MRM has been declaring imminent or actual victory. MRAs do it constantly and on the flimsiest of evidence – Zarat’s victory parade due to upvotes in an English newspaper, for example. Elam’s post just continues in that similar vein.
It’s actually really pretty sad. The last 4 weeks have seen the SPLC expose, the non-happening of “Sink Misandry” and the Tom Martin fiasco. Only the delusional could experience this humiliations and still claim victory. Step forward the MRM!
AVFM and, to a lesser degree, the Spearhead use hits on their website as proof of their popularity. That many people visit their sites for amusement, to be horrified or directed from this (and other) sites seems to escape them. I for one no longer access any of their blogs, especially AVFM. I think it encourages them just a little too much – they need an audience (not knocking anyone that does visit though).
When I first stumbled across MRAs on the ‘net, I was worried. Now I have a range of concerns about MRAs, but more about what kind of people are in society, not about whether they will actually change anything: they won’t. Their own words damn them,
Because we all know popularity is a good standard for truth.
Sounds an awful lot like creationists, particularly incompetents like VenomfangX and Nephilimfree. Both in their heyday used the whole “I have more subscribers!” trope, oblivious that people subscribed to their channels just to laugh at them.
They have flocks upon flocks of sheep on YouTube. That audience will suffice.
My question is:
Do the guys that right for these sites talk this way when not speaking in the protected guise of annonimity of the Internet? Would they actually tell a group of women that the “feminist gravy train” is about to derail or do they just think it, loudly, and then “squish” their heads with their forefingers and thumb from a very safe distance?
One more question:
Is there actually a feminist gravy train? If so, I would love to see it! It sounds rad.
link to the AVFM article is currently broken , but I think I recall the article you mean , about Coquette’s ad hominem attack MRA that failed to address any aspect of gender equity. Like her you seem only able to criticise the person or their style but never the substance.
Oh and Maya, a substantial part of manboob’s and other feminist’s site’s traffic are MRA’s scoping the latest “intelligence” so site traffic is a “gender” equitable indicator.
If anyone is interested, here is a cached version of the original post from that douchebag:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V8riLJuTn0MJ:www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-lies-feminism/i-hate-dr-tara-palmatier/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Totally so. David NEVER manages to criticize the substance of MRA posts/comments. Every Man Boobz post ever = “Elam is fat lol.”
Futrelle and the other users here and in the Free Forum criticize the substance of MRA arguments all the time. You are either blind or dishonest not to see that.
Please speak English next time you pretentious shitwit.
Haha, that’s rich. So your traffic is all MRAs and soon-to-be MRAs, and feminist traffic is all MRAs. You guys have a way inflated opinion of your do-nothing movement, let me tell you what XD
from that article
Isn’t it the reason elam? Oh wait I forgot he is also in it for the money and power it gives him…
For the life of me I can’t tell if Maya L. is just adding a heaping helping of sarcasm on top of my sarcastic comment, or if she has misread a clearly ridiculous comment by someone who’s been commenting here for the past year and a half as totes serious and was trying to respond seriously.
Ah, wevs. It’s all good. Except for rper89.