To arms, Men’s Rights Redditors! Evil feminists are running riot on Wikipedia, deleting pages devoted to books by MRA hero Warren Farrell!
Oops. False alarm! Turns out WillToHave doesn’t quite understand how Wikipedia works. As one commenter pointed out several hours after the post went up, no pages about Farrell’s books have actually been deleted. The reason there are no pages about most of his books is … that no one has bothered to put any up yet.
D’oh! MRAs aren’t being oppressed by feminists; they’re being oppressed by their own laziness.
Of course, the only ones who know this are those who’ve bothered to actually read the comments. 15 hours after being totally debunked, the post, with its misleading headline, remains near the top of the Men’s Rights subreddit, with 142 net upvotes.
Hey Paul, I’m married and have cats. Three of them. Do I get a prize?
This one’s devolving rapidly.
@cliff
i think he’s going for we cant appreciate his argument unless we also live with the constant fear that the person we claim to love might one day decide to arbitrarily destroy his life over some trivial shit like busting a kids face open for no good reason. makes perfect sense when you think about it.
Hey guys? He just called my uber-right wing, lifetime NRA member father a “feminized man”. Ditto my cousin’s NASCAR loving husband, and my aunt’s motorcycle riding (and repairing) husband.
Any other man cards these men need?
‘Cause all feminists are bitter, ugly, spinsters who own multiple cats, amirite?
Of course, I’m married, I have only one cat, and I’m a feminist. Oh yeah, I’m also a dude.
@Paul:
Strictly speaking, this is true, since you aren’t talking about anything.
Men’s rights, ladies and gentlemen. Equality for all men!
Except the ones that don’t count.
I think I’m probably the “feminized man” who doesn’t count.
Paul? Trans in the other direction, dear. Try to keep up.
Aww Paul you got me. It was a trick question. I’m not married because it’s not legal for me to marry my partner of over 5 years. How’s the MRM doing on fighting for marriage equality btw? I would think the right of men to get married would be very important to you guys.
Two Different Laws We Live In
Unequal Time for Equal Crime
ITEM. A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty.
ITEM. No woman who has killed only men has been executed in the United States since 1954.
ITEM. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men – and only 1 woman – have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed.
ITEM. In North Caroline, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence an average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.
ITEM. Being male contributes to a longer sentence more than race or any other factor – legal or extralegal. Yet sentencing guidelines were introduced largely to end racial discrimination.
ITEM. The sentencing guidelines of the state of Washington are among the strictest. Overall sentences of men, however, are still 23 percent longer than those of women. Even when offense histories are the same and the seriousness of crime is the same, women are 57 percent more likely to receive treatment sentences than prison sentences. Women are also more likely to be made eligible for early departure from prison; and once made eligible, are another 59 percent more likely to actually be released early.
@Cliff:
“Or the ones we don’t like. They’re just a bunch of manginas/white knights.”
@kirby
I think Paul got toasted halfway through the convo
I thought maybe I was the “feminized man”! Which is exactly backwards.
I assumed I was the feminized man. But it’s never easy to tell what Paul is talking about.
ITEM: non-sequiturs sound important and relevant if you precede them with ITEM.
I thought he was saying being in a relationship with a feminized man doesn’t count, as in, any man with one of us would automatically be feminized and not count.
Paul, no one can understand you. It’s not because you’re deep, either.
We can all wear skirts and pet kittens together! Hurrah!
@Paul:
Yeahh… If you wanna play the “gish gallop” game, you’re gonna have to provide some citations first. If you could get those on my desk tomorrow, that’d be great.
*sips coffee*
Gotta go now, I haven’t beaten my wife in almost 2 hours,,,
Don’t forget eat chocolate cake and drink pinot grigio!
Bye Paul, don’t let the door hit you on the way out
He could also be talking about me (though it’s not as likely), since I own a dog but I’m also a mangina (at least… I think he called me a mangina), so therefore I don’t count? For… something?
Domestic violence? LOL.
Women having a conference? LITERALLY TERRORISM.
… What a creepy flounce. I don’t think anybody even implied that he was a domestic abuser, and yet that’s the sarcasm he goes out on. What the fuck? What a bizarre troll.
Oh no! Paul thinks feminist men are a bunch of Big Girly Men who have/are manginas! Now I’m mad.
No, wait, not “mad.” What’s the word? Oh yeah, “bored.” Seriously, you guys need some new material.
3/10 for that flounce, -2 for DV “joke” (that will be reduced to a 2/10 if he doesn’t stick it)