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.
@ Tulgey Logger — Lithium drip? The drug is only administered orally (Eskalith, Eskalith CR, Lithobid) I think you might have been thinking of Thorazine.
Why am I in moderation’s purgatory? I don’t see any slur or anything offensive in my post… 🙁
Sorry, Blastoise, but when you open with something like this:
You aren’t exactly opening a discussion of music through the lens of gender. You’re making some pretty specific assertions, ie that there is a feminist education system that treats masculinity like a disease. Not exactly a very neutral stance, unless I suppose you think such a system could be a good thing.
You posted videos of songs by the Who saying that they were perfect for “boys who have been indoctrinated into a feminist education system.”
You haven’t made any criticisms of feminism or the MRM (although you brand yourself as someone who criticizes both) or this site’s “rigid ideology”. When asked what you’re actual criticisms are, you’ve just posted more random youtube videos.
Dude, no one is calling you a troll for not criticizing anyone. You’d have to actually make some sort of valid criticism for that to happen.
Kyrie, you mentioned R__ P____, I’ve got his name in the filter!
@Kyrie:
Hmm… B_____n’s name is part of the moderation filter, did you have that in your post?
Ah, nevermind. David both ninja’d and corrected.
With this sentence you basically such down any potential conversation: if everything is subjective, what can you discute?
Oh, I forgot about the ban on him! Makes sense now.
That should be “no one is calling you a troll for criticizing anyone”.
kirby warp — The problem I have with both movements is the concept of individuality seems non existent. Feminist / MRA’s examine gender collectively and often engage in communal blame.
Blasteroid, could you give examples of what each group does in terms of communal blame?
All that’s… well that’s… a theory. please make your arguments. With quotes or examples, preferably.
Hem, I mean Blasteroid, please tell us all about your concept of individuality, and how both feminism and the MRM fail.
This is actually a perfect illustration of where MRA thinking goes wrong. Never heard grandpa speak? Here’s an idea – why didn’t you go and talk to him while he was still alive, instead of waiting for him to talk to you? Never held your Dad’s hand? I hold my Dad’s hand sometimes. Since men are raised to be a bit emotionally reticent you may need to initiate that if you want it to happen.
I can’t help but feel that this guy’s actual needs would be better served by going to visit his father and giving him a hug than by all this women-are-out-to-get-me stuff.
it could be him, but i can’t see b____n listening to anything more agressive than jason mraz.
i’m gonna say different, ‘both sides do it’ whiner.
kirbywarp – Communal Blame
1. MRA’s / The Duke rape case: That was one isolated incident but some MRA’s blame all women for what Crystal Gail Mangum did. They think false rape accusations are common and often think every accusation is some how a lie.
2. Feminists –. ‘Rape Culture’: A term that seems like a very convenient way to instill male guilt. While all men aren’t potential rapists, many don’t realize their ‘toxic’ version of masculinity contributes to a culture that normalizes rape. That’s communal blame.
Oh, goody, a special snowflake troll.
Sharculese, he always struck me as more of a John Mayer listening douchecanoe.
Ah, a “rape culture” denier. How very.
Blasteroid: it’s a “culture”, that doesn’t mean everybody, or every man participate in it, just that it’s a predominant thing in our society. BTW, women aren’t immune to it, there is no gender requirement to think that rape victims are ‘asking for it’ by not walking around dressed like nuns. Or just walking around without men.
So, MasterBlasteroid, how would “indiviuality” alleviate the communal blame in your examples above?
And? Everyone perpetuates things like racism, sexism, heterosexism; no exceptions, not even for myself. If you have a problem with that, you should try doing it less* rather than being angry at people who tell you you’re doing it.
*and whining about rape culture, which is pretty well evidenced, means you are not going to be our magical human who doesn’t perpetuate social harms
Blasteroid, if you think that the idea behind rape culture is about blaming all men (and only men) for making rape acceptable, you’ve misunderstood the whole concept of rape culture.
@Blasteroid:
Toxic Masculinity refers to the idea that a certain pattern of behavior is necessary for being a man. It is not a description of a certain pattern of behavior in men as wrong or bad or guilt-inducing.
Rape Culture, while usually used to describe a culture in which male rape of women is normalized, does not by definition imply that it is created by men, or that all men are to blame for it, or that all men contribute to rape. Rather, it is a device used to point out that individuals who aren’t rapists can nevertheless contribute to the problem by discouraging victims from speaking out, shaming victims, or whatever. No communal blame, just a description of how a large number of individual actions leads to a huge problem.
Hope that helps you out. 🙂
Maybe Blasteroid should explain rape culture to all of us, since zie knows so much about it.