“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?
it wasn’t clear to me from the patrice stanton pics whether she was actually on board with this or just a willing dupe, so i looked around and holy shit she is a piece of work:
antimisandry.com http://antimisandry.com/feminist-misandry/hollywood-women-misandrist-blog-39777.html#ixzz1vpz7AU4L
@david
yeah, i mean, considering how tasteful they are in general the font thing really is a head-scratcher
@kirbywarp
True, I missed that one. Also:
-make people who try to use your site listen to god-awful music.
You’d think by the law of averages, there would be some MRAs who can express themselves in a coherent fashion.
Coherency is misandry!
NWO, got a youtube link for this commercial that I haven’t (and I doubt you as well) seen? My TV is too cluttered with old rich white conservative male Texans having a dick measuring contest at the moment.
The Jade Micael site won’t even load porperly for me in Firefox.
Can we please give Ruby the shunning she so needs right about now?
Just watched (part of) “Girls Who Look Like Guys Who Look Like Girls.”
That was a … treat.
Also, “reality” has a song on the songs page. It’s a lovely little acoustic number about how women are like open sewers. Or something. I had to turn it off fairly quickly.
Don’t forget
–complain about those women are always nagging, amirite fellas?
That’s not poetry. The scansion is wretched, the flow is nonexistent and the metaphors have no continuity (even when the manage to make something approaching sense).
It’s not free verse, it’s not a prose poem, it’s; at best, stream of consciousness ranting. Even that is generous beyond it’s merits, because it seems to be crafted.
It’s pretentious crap.
@David:
If you want a fun follow up, the same artist seems to have put up another video with the delightful never-will-this-ever-get-grating-ever refrain “Don’t want a man, but your woman is a man!”
It’s all about how crazy those lesbians are who say they aren’t attracted to men, yet their partners have all these masculine traits! How crazy, right? If you are attracted to people who wear pants and have short hair, why not just be attracted to dudes? Cause we’re in preschool and only men wear pants and only women wear dresses…
*hair-pulling frustration*
@NWO:
I wanna see this commercial too, especially since the audio to it seems to be in the background of one of the videos at the artistryagainstmisandry website thing.
Well, AAM is going to provide fodder for several blog posts at least! I think “reality” deserves his own post.
Also, to add to the fun here, our good pal antimanboobz has a new one, this one featuring darksidecat:
http://antimanboobz.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/darksidecat-33/
Confused by his underpants guy is confused because he’s built like a T.rex. His arms are too short to masturbate with.
Artistry Against Misandry: Forgetting All Three Since 1996
Antimanboobz has also been busy creating more rationalization hamster memes:
http://www.quickmeme.com/Rationalization-Hamster/newest/?upcoming
Oh man, have you seen Dr. F’s section? Just scads of the most absurd cartoons I’ve ever seen. They make the rest of the art on the site look like masterpieces. And they’re all in that inconvenient scrolling format too, it’s glorious.
Misogynists love to misgender me and then throw sexist insults at me. I must be a woman, so then they can call me “hysterical” and not address my arguments. Also, lol at him admitting my point that mainstream academia centers men and men’s viewpoints, even if he did try to play the misogynist “we don’t talk about women cause women are dumb and don’t contribute to society nonsense” as his excuse.
Am I the only one who draws the line at watching MRA videos? I refuse to entertain them in any medium I can’t skim.
@darksidecat:
I kinda loled at his “only men are talked about because only men contributed to the sciences, as everyone knows.” That’s… the point. Right there. That thing that you missed.
@katz
You’re not the only one. Every time I’ve tried watching an MRA video, it’s always just so bad I’ve given up on viewing them.
I’m starting to be offended that Anti-Manboobz hasn’t profiled me yet.
I guess the other way to think of it is that making a blog that mocks Anti-Manboobz is a great way to avoid getting harangued by Anti-Manboobz, if such a thing concerns you.
That “Girls Who Look Like Guys Who Look Like Girls.” guy is running at least 15 years late, and not nearly as much fun as the original.
Moar Fun Links!
http://www.malestudies.org/mission.html
http://www.wagner.edu/newsroom/node/16
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/37177
Note: “This is not a gender studies conference. It is not a men’s studies conference in the generally accepted sense.”
I like how he’s completely given up trying to hide his hate-crush on Rutee. And it only took 5 posts.
To be fair, Ruby’s latest faux pas seems to just be a joke that was wheezing by the time it left her brain and just outright died when she hit post. And, even though intent ain’t magic, i don’t think she actually believes that, unlike the other bullshit that she’s said (*ahem* Middle East *ahem* socialized medicine will just lead to the poor making poor health choices *ahem*)
OTOH, I’m sure all teh dudes will be happy to support a journal on Black Male Studies!
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/19165.html
http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/2009/mar-apr/article1.asp
OT but came out of Google search and does a good job of showing how men and women with similar degrees are paid differently (guess who is likely to earn more over his lifetime).