Prepare to laugh your ass off (not literally, I hope) at this display of hilarity, courtesy of the Men’s Rights subreddit:
Oscar Wilde would be proud. Wait, not proud. Disgusted, and probably a little embarrassed for you.
I took this screenshot the other day. When I went back to see if there were any developments in the thread, I discovered that both the joke and hardwarequestions’ brilliant reply had picked up some more upvotes, and that crankycloud has apparently been banned. I guess that’s one way to deal with hecklers.
EDITED TO ADD: Hey, Tweeps, come on over to Twitter. I’m trying to get a hashtag started: #OscarWildeQuotesWithLolOnTheEnd
“Wit is one of the greatest aspects of the MRM”
“quack, quack, quack”
He meant “lack of wit,” I’m sure. Missing words happen.
Well, the MRM surely has burnt bridge from any kind of activism.
Feminists aren’t funny! Shush, Kate Beaton, shush!
The Is This Feminist? Tumblr proves that feminists have humor (self-deprecating humor, even!). If you’re too thick to get it that’s just too bad.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. roflcopter.
omg where’s your trigger warning for fat shaming, huh, stupid hypocritical feminist
/mrawit
fwiw it’s worth i appreciate is this feminist but i think it gilds the lily a bit. like most of those posts could be helped by being made shorter and punchier.
But seriously, the MRM is practically a synonym for biting, acerbic wit…
Woops, sorry—I was holding my thesaurus upside down. The only listing is “douchebag.”
Our Lord commands; it shall be done. Now I have to go set up a friggin’ Twitter account? David is soooo demanding. 🙂
Speaking of real humor, here’s a hilarious Onion editorial on Aristophanes.
Just because it’s Friday.
MRA’s don’t seem like a witty bunch to me. I think of them as hateful, humorless people.
To be fair, MRA’s make me laugh all the time. It’s not because they’re witty, but because most of what they say is absurd.
Friday! We hunted the
turtlesferretsbatsspidersratscrabsmammoth to feed you.I think they meant “shit,” not “wit.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I posted this in another thread, but it bears repeating. Largely because it’s actually funny.
How can that be? Brevity is the soul of wit, and if there’s anything the standard bearers of the MRM don’t have, it’s brevity.
it also bears repeating (for the benefit of lurkers/newer commenters) that there are actual fighting the tyranny of ladies nights and that that article accurately reflects the views of repeat troll the buttman
mras: they will NOT be satirized, thankyouverymuch
Damnit, I KNEW when we decided to ban jokes, humor, smiling, and laughter of any kind, we were making a bad call.
I get where the “loss of humor” meme comes from, having been a privileged asshole myself (still privileged, hopefully not an asshole anymore). When I started examining my privilege and informing myself on the ways people are discriminated against, there are plenty of things I used to find really funny that now just make me cringe in how bigoted they are. From an outside perspective that looks like loss of humor, when really there wasn’t any humor there to begin with, just cheap shots at discriminated groups. I’m guessing the “you’re just trying to get offended” meme also comes from that.
So I guess I’m on track with my anti-laughter shock collar that I’ve been working on?
Yes, feminists view the sound of laughter as a public nuisance, like dogs barking.
Myoo – I think it’s partly that (and props to you for having the courage to admit it). But I’ve also seen “no sense of humor” used an attack after insults that were clearly not meant as jokes, just as an attempt to order the person you just insulted to laugh it off rather than taking your insult as an insult. This happens inside and outside of social-justice situations and it’s shitty regardless.
Apparently while some of us were learning a joke is “a humorous story or remark,” others were learning a joke is “a thing no one is allowed to be angry about because it doesn’t really count as a thing you said.”
Also, if you use the phrase “no disrespect” you can say anything you want and it’s ok.
“No disrespect, but your mother’s a whore.”