“Men’s Studies” has existed as an academic discipline for several decades now. Not surprisingly, most of those involved in it identify themselves as feminists – as people interested in studying gender tend to do. But not all of them: A couple of years back, a group of mostly anti-feminist academics and popular writers with an interest in gender decided to try to do a sort of end run around the discipline of “Men’s Studies” by conjuring up a whole new, altogether un-feminist discipline called “Male Studies.”
Recently, The University of South Australia announced that it would start offering postgraduate courses in Male Studies sometime in 2014; our old friend Eoghan/Sigil1 brought this earthshattering news to the Men’s Rights subreddit the other day, where it was greeted with … suspicion and hostility.
GotMyFrogHatOn wrote:
Great, now men have the same opportunity as women to waste their time and money on a worthless degree!
Liverotto was even blunter:
YES, because the cure to bullshit is… MORE BULLSHIT! /s
That’s right: Men’s Rights Redditors hate Women’s Studies, and Gender Studies, and apparently every academic discipline with the word “Studies” in it so much that they’ve transferred this hatred to a new academic discipline that could well have been (and sort of was) designed just for them.
But don’t worry, they still hate Women’s Studies the most:
What was I saying the other day about projection?
As long as you’re weeping and self-flagellating in front of your Womyn altar, David, my image of you will remain intact.
Yes yes yes, Tulgey. And yes again. Normally I’d be more irritated by the stuff that “Reality” is saying but I keep getting distracted by the fact that his “art” looks exactly like the projects we would have to do in my 8th grade computer class in 1996. And that makes me happy.
I’m not sure how complaining that women are inhuman, money-grubbing, backstabbing psychotic whores and stupid fucking bitches who can’t think of anything but themselves, should be run over by a Greyhound bus, are rife with a multitude of STDs, and for some reason will never say, “I’m sorry that I’ve been such a bitch and I’ll change” is a statement against misandry, but I guess that’s just me. Changing the title of Twilight’s New Moon to “New Fags” is a classy touch, though.
I kinda hope David decides to feature some of these on the blog; they are really priceless.
(It’s also great that “Jack Riley” thinks that “mainstream society is only concerned with female sexual pleasure”. Can you imagine the wondrous fantasy world he lives in?)
Politically Incorrect underwear guy is just confused because he has been watching too much Zardoz.
It might be too hot for the candles, though. What say you, hive mind? Can David forgo the candles when it’s hot, as long as he continuously self-flagellates?
I knew it. I god-damn knew it. I don’t care if no-one believes me, but I called this one so hard. I present to you:
Rod the Riveter
I’ve seen a lot of stupid things but jesus christ this is stupid how does this I don’t even… *grumble grumble*
Wimp-it is 97 right now in my neck of the woods. From a high of 100. Or was that just an attempt to titillate us?
Dude, this is just straight up propoganda. Full of “feminism is dirty evil nasty smelly LIES and only naive people think otherwise” and appropriations of other civil rights movements.
Its like… If slave owners countered with “if you think about it, we’re the ones that are actually enslaved!” and held a million man march… I just… argh. -_-
@Tulgey About that poem…
I found it!
Just kidding, MRA lurkers. I do not actually advocate hammering anyone’s life-giving tool.
Ta da:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jvrvcyXX1qzl7x8o1_500.png
You’re going to make Paulie mad! You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. (Wait, is he ever NOT angry?)
Jesus! One of these artwork thingies points to http://www.psych.org with promises of learning more about “psychosis and women and false accusations.”
No!
No! No! No!
You do not get to point at a legitimate foundation to promote your lies. What is wrong with you don’t even own the site of your advertisement is lying about the content arglebarglebibbityboo…
*deflates*
I think I’ve been pretty lucky in my bio classes (I’m currently a major). I haven’t noticed any profs treating me differently than my male classmates, and most of my profs (in all the sciences) have brought up female scientists at least once and pointed out the struggles they often faced to get acknowledged. (It helps that the department is roughly 50% female–of the five profs I had last semester, the only guy taught creative writing. My cell and developmental bio profs were both female.) My classes are usually over 50% female, too.
But the whole disregarding the humanities and social sciences is weird. I’ve had classmates wonder why I’m minoring in sociology (one of the guys who wondered this is majoring in econ, so I don’t know why he thinks he can say anything about sociology).
holy shit the fiction
http://www.artistryagainstmisandry.com/upload/Mother's%20Day%20Wake%20Up%20Call.pdf
there’s not really a plot so much of two and a quarter pages of this dude complaining that his mom called him on mother’s day because she’s an evil shrew bitch feminist whore
Having looked at those pictures of that naked man, I agree with Elaine from Seinfeld. Nudity is not a great look for men. Sorry guys.
@kirby
http://www.psychiatry.org/home/search-results?k=false%20accusations
“No Matching Records found for your search”
How do I see the “art” of “reality” full sized?
David, if you mouse over the image in the viewer you should see three icons. The one on the right lets you maximize. Everything about that website seems to be aiming to make the user’s experience as poor as possible.
mouse over the image and then click the button on the right
welp, since i got ninja’ed by cloudiah, i will leave you with this, which is described as a ‘psa’
that probably took him months to make
Ok, I just don’t understand this one that you can find in the little rotating photo carousel. The text is as follows:
Just one question really. Wat? What is this even referencing? Do mothers drug chidlren? Is this an anti-vax thing? Is it talking about Ritolin? What is going on here?!?
25 self-described alpha males walk into a classroom…
That’s half a joke already.
Maybe MRAs are afraid of getting not getting an A? Getting called a “B”, in “male studies?” Ouch. Its a pretty steep descent from there – C? D? F? So much name-calling!
Grading curves are misandry!
they actually direct artists to submit their work as jpegs and musicians to submit mp3s. it’s like they want the site to be a shitty as humanly possible
Yeah, I did the maximize thing; they’re still fairly small and unreadable in some cases.
Wha? Aren’t you married to a guy? O_O
I like to see sexy men naked (I also like to see sexy people of other genders naked), isn’t that sort of an intrinsic part of being sexually attracted to (some) men?
Unless you’re not sexually attracted to men? Which is okay in general…