Look out, Jade Michael and the Fuck Their Shit Up Crew! Sure, your Men’s Rights theme song “Go My Own Way” was hailed by MRAs around the internet as a work of genius, and, in the words of one eminent critic angry misogynist dude,
a veritable anthem for the red pill crowd … replete with a great, purist rock sound, a touch of humor, attitude, and a ton of gut level, red pill honesty.
It’s Red Pill-riffic! But now Jade and the one other guy who makes up his, er, “crew” now have competition in the Men’s Rights anthem business!
Without futher ado, here is Slumberwall, with a little song called “The Hatred of Women.”
Did any of you make it past the one minute mark? I couldn’t.
Happily, Slumberwall has transcribed the terrible lyrics to the song, so you don’t have to listen to the whole thing in order to appreciate its true Men’s Rightsy awfulness. Here are the best bits, by which I mean the bits most likely to make you want to puncture your eardrums with knitting needles.
Men have no doubt
Just what they’re for
We die at work
We die in war
We die at sea
As the lifeboats float ashore
Women & children,
all aboard
Never mind that, as I pointed out yesterday, “women and children first” isn’t really a thing.
Anyway, back to Slumberwall:
We take the strain
We bear the load
Build the bridges
Sweep the roads
Make the houses
That make the homes
Pay for others
But live alone
And the more that it happens
The more I see
The hatred of women
For men like me
Well, if by “men like me” you mean “men who write and sing the shittiest music that has ever been made by human beings,” I have to say that I kind of understand this hatred.
Nonetheless, on YouTube the Men’s Rightsers are cheering this song as a brilliant work of social criticism.
Wanderer5200 enthuses:
I haven’t had a favorite song in a very long time. But I think this is it.
TheAetherspeak declares
Awesome Song. The voice all purveyors of patriarchy theory remain ignorant of.
Gamenode explains:
Women have never been oppressed but through their reproductive monopoly have exploited men and seen us butchered and enslaved for their own privilege. Fuck ’em all.
KellyJones00 adds,
Don’t fuck them at all. Just leave them alone. Don’t even donate sperm.
Time for a little bit of a musical palate cleanser.
Make sure to listen to all ten hours of that for the full palate-cleansing effect.
Blasteroid – How do you figure that “diversion” would work? A woman goes to the registrar with a sheet full of English courses and the registrar says “nope, we need 100 female engineering majors this year, tough luck”?
@Blasteroid (a) Citation needed and (b) please explain the mechanism by which women “would be diverted from attaining degrees in areas such as social work and teaching.” Threats? Force? Blackmail? Or would it be more like Holly describes above, which sounds fun. (Paper airplanes! Surgery on mannequins!)
I should point out Social Work is an underpaid and under-appreciated profession. I should know, that’s what I’m studying.
Girls in high school might be pressured or dare I say manipulated into taking these male dominated majors for the sake of equal outcomes.
Also, I might have forgotten how this works since I’ve been out of college, but I don’t think you can get a science degree WITHOUT taking science courses.
Manipulated? Dare you say how?
Blasteroid, or Brandon, or whoever: citation needed.
And really, you’re going to sit there and say girls aren’t already manipulated into teaching and softer sciences? Get real.
We don’t push boys into female dominated professions. Our schools let them decide. We owe girls the same courtesy.
Blockquote fail! Obviously, the bit starting “Ah, it all becomes clearer now…” was me. XD
Blasteroid, I was an English major who sucked at math despite my best efforts, but I sure wish I’d paid more attention to technology when I was growing up. Quite a few of my male peers were interested in it, but I constantly felt excluded from their groups and it was only in my 20s that I was able to find the confidence and resources to start teaching myself this stuff.
Cuz if a guy wants to work in theater or dance, no one ever makes “gay!” jokes or calls him weird or effeminate. Right?
Me too! Or more precisely, an effort to get more women into my engineering school. Though it wasn’t much by choice, it was mandatory. The boys did interviews of the girls in language class, and the video was then showed in an event to promote gender equality in general.
I’ve heard that women were stealing men place in STEM trough affirmative action, but that they were forced?? That’s a first. Which is not bad in itself, originality is rare among trolls. But come on, you can’t be that stupid. Yes, technically, more women in STEM means less women somewhere else, but opening new opportunities for a person is the opposite of oppression. Shouldn’t offer construction toys to kids because it slightly decreases the odd they’ll be a teacher???
cloudiah: thanks, I must have missed it. You’ll notice the troll didn’t answer this point.
Blasteroid, how did you decide you wanted to go into social work? Have you gotten any negative feedback from your male peers when they heard what you were studying?
Actually, scratch that. Have you gotten any feedback from anyone of either gender, and what did they say?
Women often make life choices that focus more on interpersonal communication. STEM fields can be somewhat isolated.
Man, this one moves goalposts like a fucking champ!
And by “this one,” I mean B_____n. Nice outfit, though.
Spoken like a true white knight mangina.* Dude, high school students get pressured into all kinds of educational choices now: Whether to go to college, which university to attend, etc. That your concern arises only when the result is more women in male-dominated (better-paying) fields kinda says something.
*Not that those words actually mean anything.
Awww, Blasteroid just wants to save women from a life of loneliness!
Dude, do you know any writers? We’re not exactly a social bunch.
Whatever gave you that idea?
Holly, that must be one of the worst – or is it the best? – conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard! We’re manipulating young women to go to STEM by letting them know they will have well paid jobs.
You do realize more than a few male student is influenced by his factor when choosing a career in STEM? I know, I’m there And I’m not a man, but I know quite a few, and they’re not doing it just for the love of Science.
And women are still free to chose other paths. In fact, mos of societies pushes down these path.
@ Molly Ren — Good question. I haven’t gotten much negative feedback but some of my male friends wonder why I would choose a profession that doesn’t pay very well.
holly => holy crap. That’s a very weird mistake.
I was personally involved in an effort to increase female enrollment in STEM!
It consisted of an event (on the weekend, voluntarily attended) for teenage girls to meet women who worked in the sciences. The women gave little presentations on their jobs but generally tried to make it interactive and playful–the woman who was an aircraft engineer held a model-airplane contest, the woman who worked for a biotech company let all the girls practice using a new type of surgical tool on a mannequin, and so forth.
Was it Expanding Your Horizons? Because it is cool and awesome and my high school did it too.
Why is the profession I’m studying predominantly female? Female / Male biological differences must be a factor. Just a thought. (Notice how I put female before male, I know feminists like that 🙂
http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/whysofew.pdf
Women are already being diverted from STEM; complaining about women being “forced” and “manipulated” into STEM when they are already being manipulated out of STEM is ridiculous.
1. Female-dominated professions tend to be lower-paid. Usually when well-meaninged people “push” students into professions, it’s because those people want those students to find a career in which they can be self-sufficient or even financially successful.
2. There are societies and scholarships for men in nursing — one of the better-paid jobs traditionally held by women.
3. Do you think that boys and girls currently get any guidance or incentives to make the choices they make, whether financially, socially, or culturally? Is this a bad thing? Is it worse than a plan to make STEM classes more appealing to girls, and if no, why?