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.
How can anyone be happily married and okay with the vemon spewed at one’s wife by the rest of the MRA community?
If we’re playing The Who, I’ve always been partial to this cover:
The WHO also wrote — “Squeeze Box”. Maybe a feminist anthem?
Greg, go ahead and like Slumberwall all you want, but they fucking suck. I could say, “as someone on the music business they suck engorged doneky balls,” but that holds exactly as much water as your “as a happy blahbibity blahbity,” in that it holds exactly none.
How does being happily married and an MRA work? Your wife on board?
So, Greg, do you think your wife hates you? Or did she at least use to hate you?
Where are these feminist education systems I keep hearing about? Are there some “Women Are Also Humans 101” classes that I was exempted from for being effeminate or something? Hell, I wish there had been one or two of those, based on the stuff I’ve seen people do and say. I think the most feminist indoctrination I got while I was in school was reading the Harry Potter books.
re Shaenon’s list of top ten recent jobs by gender, on the last page
(and my apologies in advance if I’ve got anything wrong, I’m up too late)
but my first thought was, most of the most common jobs for women in that list involve directly dealing with the public, and most of the most common jobs for men don’t. Unless they’re selling them something.
Which I probably find interesting only because my own job (no.1 in top ten jobs for women) today has been ten hours of dealing very directly with some VERY ANGRY public so I’m a bit minced.
so I apologise for the derail!
And I dearly wish I had had something rather more clever to impart, there!
Alternatively, The Who could have been singing about being a trans man, which would make it pretty dang progressive.
I always figured “I’m A Boy” was about a CID boy whose mother was pretending he was a girl, but since I ran into the trans man interpretation I’ve preferred to think of it that way 😀 even though I doubt that’s what Townshend actually intended.
As a happily unmarried, unemployed (though I did have a very promising interview today!) step-mommy of two giant kitties and feminist, Yes is the best band and you should all like them.
Damn phone. CID = cis.
Blasteroid, The Who also wrote “Pictures of Lily,” which is a better MRA anthem.
…Well played.
“Greg, I think we need to use the “reasonable person” legal standard here.
Any “reasonable person” would see “the hatred of women” as a godawful piece of crap.
If you like it, there must be something horribly wrong with you.”
Well yes David there is no accounting for some peoples taste including your own, whilst I suspect their may well be something horribly wrong with you as well, I don’t take your dislike of this or any other song as evidence of it, by “reasonable” on any other standards, which is what you and the commentators here are doing.
Oh and BTW I believe my wife loves me, as a recent DPsych graduate, she suffered through enough feminist dogma to have a healthy respect for both sides of any debate, including those we share around gender issues.
It is the gender feminists who direct hate towards one demographic based solely on there biological sex.
http://thefemitheist.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/lie-of-patriarchy-final-eutopia.html
cloudiah: I think you have to be a MRA to like the song. If you’re an MRA, it’s not a song, it’s an anthem, an cry of rally, a political message; Not liking it would be disapproving of it, something only a traitor to the cause would do. Liking it is a choice, one which is does as an MRA and as a … and as a … et cetera.
If I’m right, that’s an unconscious acknowledgment that no human could appreciate this – can I call that a song – for its ‘artistic’ value.
In other new, an internet idiot is whining because someone disliking what he, himself, likes is literally the same as oppression, censorship and silencing any other opinion.
Katz, I’m so glad someone caught that!
@ katz — The WHO also wrote — “My Wife”
No, you’re right Blasteroid. The WHO would make a great poster band for the MRM, since that’s the first reaction people have to hearing about it. XD
“The MRM was labled a hate group recently.”
“The who?”
MRM?
All Blasteroid is doing is proving that The Who had some pretty misogynist lyrics. Then again, it’s hard to name classic rock bands that DON’T to some extent.
I love me some AC/DC, but “Cover You In Oil” is not a feminist anthem.
Blasteroid:
Aaaaaaaand Kirby’s point is proven.
kirbywarp@ — I’m not affiliated with any movement. I’m an equal opportunity complainer and will challenge both feminists and MRA’s.
I said this all on Manboobz
but they didn’t get my point,
and now if they get mad at me
they’ll put me in the joint
Late to the party, but I couldn’ resist. This one’s for slavey.
Wow, that’s like so enlightened and shit. I bet you think both have some good points, right?
@ henkell — My girlfriend read your post and doesn’t think the Who’s lyrics are misogynistic. Such criticisms are often based on individual interpretation.
I wasn’t really trying to imply you were part of the MRM, Blasteroid. To be fair, though, you did open up with this:
But now I’m curious. What are some things you challenge feminists about, and what are some things you challenge MRAs about?