Many of those in the manosphere wear their misogyny like a badge of honor. Others like to present themselves as fierce opponents of bigotry, and angrily deny the charges of misogyny thrown their way. When the Southern Poverty Law Center ran an article noting the misogyny often found on A Voice for Men, for example, site founder Paul Elam responded with great indignation in an open letter to the group:
Yesterday I received the unfortunate news that your organization … listed my website, avoiceformen.com, among others, as misogynistic, or “woman-hating. … Contrary to what readers of your site may be led to believe, the goals of SPLC and AVfM are quite similar: We both work to identify groups who seek to oppress others, and inform the public of the inequities they would perpetuate.
This seems a strange argument for the man whose handle on YouTube is “The Happy Misogynist,” and who regularly writes posts filled with hair-curling hatred of women. It seems even stranger when you consider AVFM’s support of a site that frankly peddles hate – against women, “manginas,” gay men, lesbian, and trans folk.
I’m talking about the misleadingly named Artistry Against Misandry site. AAM and AVFM seem almost joined at the hip. AAM’s founder, musician Jade Michael, wrote and performed the theme song currently used on AVFM’s internet “radio show.” AVFM has returned the favor, promoting the site and helping raise money for it. Indeed, several days ago Elam himself proudly announced that he’d sent along $100 of his own money to help Michael fund an upcoming event.
The site describes itself as follows:
Welcome to the first pro-male artist activist network. Within these pages you will find music, poetry, prose, graphics, cartoons and additional links, all of which are here to bring attention to and counter misandry in Western society.
In practice, this means saying the worst shit about women you can possibly imagine. Oh, the “artists” also say terrible things about men who don’t hate women with fervor — you may recall the ridiculous caricature of me as a self-flagellating, woman-worshipping “mangina” at the end of this post from a couple of days ago.
But the “artists” whose work is featured on the site focus most of their venom on women. Let’s take a look at several graphics from Reality, one of the site’s most prolific contributors.
Yep, that’s right: “western women” are “the new tapeworm parasites.” Here are a couple more.
There are (literally) forty more where those came from, and they’re pretty much all as nasty and hateful as the ones I’ve featured here. I suggest you visit AAM’s graphic art page and scroll through the rest of Reality’s wares.
If you don’t have the patience for that, and since the app they use on AAM to display Reality’s artwork is a piece of crap, I’m just going to highlight some more of his clever anti-misandry slogans here in text form:
Women actually expect you to act like a traditional male. While they live like psychotic whores. Keep dreaming, bitch!
Guys, do you really want to know what she’s thinking? 100% pure shit.
[Picture of women pointing at the camera.] We get everything and do nothing for it. Now get back to work slave.. we can put you in jail or bankrupt you with just a pointed finger.
Remember, when a woman tells you she’s tired it’s the only time she’s actually telling you the truth because…being a raging petty psychotic bitch…while being virtually retarded…while having endless banal thoughts she considers “genius…” while making insane and constant ultimatums…IS absolutely EXHAUSTING!!
Meanwhile, an artist calling himself “Andy Man” declares in a graphic of his own:
This is the sort of “artistry” that A Voice for Men is actively supporting.
And they wonder why some might consider them part of a hate movement?
Artistry Against Misandry also features music, videos, and even poetry, all of it awful, in every sense of the word. I will take a look at some of this in future posts.
EDIT: I added one more Reality graphic and a bunch of his slogans in text form.
I think there may be grounds for some sort of action from these peeps:
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
My first thought was how so many people use “women” where they mean “woman.”
My second thought was about a student I had. He was telling me about his “child” and referred to the child as “he.” So I kept up with the conversation, referring to a singular child who was a “he.”
Turned out “he” was twin girls.
(It’s ESL, that sort of thing happens.)
More likely though, it’s kind of like the a lot of historical texts where the male children get mentioned because IMPORTANT and the female children are only important when they marry an important guy or give birth to someone important or whatever else.
So NWO doesn’t distinguish between children out of the womb and in? After all, he says there’s no difference. Don’t most abortions happen in the first trimester? Do I have to detail the difference between a fetus at that stage and a full-grown baby?? (Hint: One of them you can see and one of them is about 1-2″ tall.)
If I walked a mile in your shoes, chances are I could go the ENTIRE MILE without facing any kind of sexual harassment.
NWO, do any men in your world(view) work in offices? At all?
Women ONLY work in offices, where they lounge around in silky drawers wearing expensive perfume and carrying designer hand bags they forced a man to buy for them.
And ALL men work either in mud, coal, or shit, for up to 20 hrs a day, sometimes in exceedingly high temperatures. It are fact!
Like an earlier comment says, I’m insulted as an MFA by the obvious lack of talent, concern, knowledge and giving enough of a shit about the content of their message to actually have caused them to try to make something visually appealing. All of this, of course, in addition to what has to be some of the stupidest attempts toward reasoning possible (which is common of what I’ve read from these fuckers.)
Misogyny, when you don’t want to think, you just want to come up with excuses to feel better about yourself.
“Sometimes,” Fembot? Didn’t you mean to say “always?”
No, not always. The rest of the time it’s exceedingly low temperatures.
Good point, Dracula. Perhaps it should say, “always in fiery pits or icy caverns?” I just want to get this right, for science!
uh, guys, some of us are mangina slaves who trade our freedom and dignity to lick the crumbs of our feminist masters. but at least we get to stay indoors. don’t forget about us.
Yup. If a woman gets pregnant and has an abortion, she is a baby-murdering slut. If she gets pregnant, has the child, and expects the father to help, she is a man-leeching whore. Win for losing, women cannot.
Since most of them subscribe to the idea that women have no right to divorce them it wouldn’t surprise me if they continued to claim they are married even though the wife and child escaped long ago.
Most of what they say is classic abuser talk. On the abuse forum these are the things the abuser says when their partner tells them they are leaving, or emails them after they escape.
You just want to marry a guy so you can eventually divorce him and bleed him dry with child support payments.
MRAs aren`t gonna be a part of your system!
I guess they think every woman is just a stoner because she has “… endless banal thoughts she considers “genius…”
Do they really believe that women instigate men to get violent with them so that… the women can get the upper hand? Logic fail.
I think the concept with the “why would I want a misogynist to want me?” thing is that they’re trying to convince women (in classic abuser style) that no man would want them. Because obviously the way they feel is universal to all men. I mean, how could you see the way things are and not want women to get hit by buses?
@Cliff,
Exactly. I’m glad there are people smarter than me on this site who know how to break it down. Thanks.
Whoa. Not even turning off the page style made that site readable. That, my friends, is talent.
@chocomintlipwax
“So NWO doesn’t distinguish between children out of the womb and in? After all, he says there’s no difference. Don’t most abortions happen in the first trimester? Do I have to detail the difference between a fetus at that stage and a full-grown baby?? (Hint: One of them you can see and one of them is about 1-2″ tall.)”
I can distinguish between children in and out of the womb just fine. I can also distinguish between being murdered and dead, and not being murdered and alive. (Hint: If you were aborted when you were 1-2″ tall in the womb, you’d be dead and unable to post such drivel).
Here’s a really easy question. If you were successfully aborted during the first trimester of your life, would you be dead?
Or at least to REAL men. Not sniveling manginas.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what an irredeemable asshole looks like. Everyone take a mental picture.
NWO, you’re never going to get pregnant, why do you care about abortion? Your attitude is fantastic birth control anyway.
He probably cares about abortion rights because no woman in her right mind will go near him. If he’s not getting any, restricting their rights is the next best thing?
“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the “Ten Thousand Things”? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you even know the difference?”
~Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son