Some threads on The Spearhead are virtual gold mines of crackpot misogyny. Today, from the same thread I drew upon for a post the other day, I present to you yet another long-winded antifeminist manifesto from a dude who doesn’t know shit about feminism. This time the dude in question is someone calling himself Darryl X.
Here’s his little screed:
There is only one kind of feminism. There is no first- or second-wave feminism. There is no ecofeminism or radical feminism or socialist feminism. There is no left and right. No conservative or liberal. (With which many feminists would hope to rationalize their egregious misconduct and criminal behavior – “Oh, but I’m not THAT kind of feminist.”) …
Feminism = the Borg
There is only feminism and it is evil and civilization depends upon its complete and utter elimination. Feminism is the product of false constructs and straw men and false flags and lies and fraud and is a political campaign of hate against men and children. Period.
And apparently Darryl loves the word “and.”
It has coopted our financial and legal and political and social institutions to affect the enslavement
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and murder
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and imprisonment and exile
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of men and the forcible separation of children from their fathers. It is responsible for the collapse of our economies worldwide and the fall of civilization.
[citation … oh, forget it. Every single thing he says needs a citation.
Feminists are comprised of mostly women but there are some men (manginas and white knights and other descriptions).
Manginas represent!
Feminists are psychopaths and malignant narcissists, without conscience and driven to do evil. They are solipsistic, manipulative, opportunistic, parasitic and predatory. They are compulsive pathological liars and deceptive and manipulative. They have no empathy, remorse, shame or guilt. They have no analytical skills and cannot plan ahead and are short-sighted. They are shallow of affect and are remorseless and are insincere and disingenuous. They are faithless and in the absence of any analytical skills, they do not have faith in the analytical skills of others, no matter how much evidence there is of its benefits. They are career and life-long con-artists.
Huh. Are you perhaps familiar with the psychological concept of “projection,” a defense mechanism whereby you project some of your own characteristics – particularly your most unsavory ones – onto someone else, or perhaps a group of people?
Just curious.
No matter how we define or relate to one another as men in the MRM, understanding the distinction between men in the MRM and feminists is more important. That is the enemy which must be destroyed. The other men in the MRM from which each of us are different are our brothers and the only important difference is that between men in the MRM and feminists. That’s the difference which defines us and on which civilization depends.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the future of civilization doesn’t actually depend on a bunch of bitter, hateful dickwads grousing on the internet about how much ladies suck.
Why would you do that? It’s not like women are different.
Plus, talking about relationships is one of those humiliatingly feminine things women force men to do in exchange for sex. It’s not something a man could ever initiate.
Men can also deny women sex, MRA dudes. I know it’s tiny mind blowing, but not all men are always DTF, contrary to what they think.
I think it’s pretty funny how the “men don’t make sexual choices, men take whatever they can get” alternates with the “feminists are gross and fat and hairy, ewwww, no one would ever touch them!”
@Cliff
I think having “catching up with friends” in scare quotes like that was meant to imply that all women cheat and/or commit arson while claiming to be doing things that obviously don’t need to be done, like looking after children.
These guys don’t have to write these sites, they can just spend their disposable cash on hookers and maids.
Bleugh. Nah, I turn away misogynist clients. In the long run I find its better for my mental health.
That’s the thing about disposable income, you can pretty much use it for whatever you want. I don’t think rent money falls under “disposable,” though. And what is it about leased cars that makes them so much more frivolous and feminine (or is “frivolous and feminine” redundant in MRA-land?) than bought cars?
“She can, if she wishes, deny him sex forever and there is nothing that he can do about it.”
Um, you can get a divorce, and find a new woman, dumbass. I hate how they assume all marriages are sexless because the woman stops putting out. Like that’s what us women folk consider a good time…a sexless marriage.
Darryl X’s rant reminds me of Kyle Reese in The Terminator. Especially when Kyle loses his shit during the police interrogation scene. Just replace all the “Its” in his dialogue with “They.”
“(They) can’t be bargained with. (They) can’t be reasoned with. (They) don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And (They) absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”
‘Course, Kyle was actually sane and just mistaken for a complete tweaker. Darryl X on the other hand……
I wonder how his daily interactions with women goes. I mean, with this much insane-o rage, could he even accept his groceries being checked out by a female clerk without hissing at her and running away? Come to think of it, he might actually think Earth’s female population are cyborgs (based on the weird tone of his rant)……or the lizard people who run the Illuminati.
A few hits of thorazine might be in order.
I don’t think it’s even that they think that men in sexless marriages can’t get a divorce (or cheat) and therefore they’re being denied any possibility of sex ever again, it seems more like they’re just outraged that wives are being viewed as people rather than property. What do you mean, a man’s legal property can refuse to let him fuck her? That’s Nazi Communist Catholicism, that is.
@Cassandra
Yeah, MRA Barbarosaa said marital rape was impossible, because if the husband doesn’t own the pussy, who does? And I think many MRAs would agree, though they might not come right out and say it.
AAAAaaargghgghgh!!!!! Why can’t they fucking figure out that a woman owns her own body? WTF!
The marital rape thing is reminding me of how MRAs also frequently bring up the issue that women in the U.S. file for divorce more frequently than men. It just seems that isn’t really a problem unless you truly believe that women have no right to say they don’t want to be married to someone anymore….
I can’t tell if you are trying to be funny or if you genuinely think Darryl is mentally ill but your words aren’t really appropriate here. Even though they are out of touch with the way the world works, most MRAs aren’t “crazy”. They generally are not mentally ill, or at least do not have a mental illness which features symptoms of psychosis. (There are MRAs which talk about their depression or substance abuse, for example.) What they are are angry reactionaries who have built up a certain perception of the way the world works due to a number of reasons (general patriarchal conditioning, entitlement, political conservatism, sometimes romantic or employment failures, etc.) and then exaggerate those views publicly in order to get attention from their peers in the movement. Their views ought to be dismissed not because MRAs have “insane-o rage” but because they are completely incoherent and morally reprehensible.
Also, I’m not sure if you’ve ever met somebody with a disorder like schizophrenia or bipolar I but they typically don’t do things like “hiss and run away”. I mean, sometimes people with mental illnesses can act in weird or frightening ways, but there are a lot of stereotypes about what a “crazy person” looks like that are either outright untrue or not generally useful for identifying and helping people with mental health issues. A lot of time mental illness manifests itself in a general inability to function or a decline in quality of life rather than outlandish behavior.
Finally thorazine is not something you take or give “hits” of, it doesn’t work that way. There’s a general societal ignorance of the difference between mental health medications and recreational drugs. Even though both affect the brain, they generally function in a completely different manner. (There are a few meds which can be used recreationally, like benzos, but for the most part there is little overlap.) Also antipsychotics are not something you can just give out to anybody acting “crazy”– they have severe side effects and anyone who is on them has to make serious cost-benefit analyses. Thorazine and other APs are often used to sedate unruly patients regardless of whether they are truly in need of them (antipsychotics are overused in elderly care homes for this reason, even though they carry a higher risk of death and adverse reactions in older people and people with dementia) and so it’s not really funny to joke about whether somebody “needs” thorazine or whatever because it’s that attitude which causes people to throw dangerous meds at those who are acting “out of line”. MRAs don’t need to be medicated, they need to sit down and think very hard about their sense of ethics.
Yes, it sucks to be in a sexless marriage, especially when for whatever reason neither divorce nor an open relationship is a reasonable option (after all, if nothing else, many people have moral compunctions against both). However!
REASONABLE SOLUTIONS:
–Open communication (humph, you should be doing that anyway)
–Scheduling sexytimes
–Getting rid of things that might kill one partner’s libido (some drugs, the chores not being done, etc.)
–Making a special effort to fulfill the lower-desire partner’s sexual desires/kinks/fantasies
–Compromise (without pressure, of course!)– for instance, perhaps the lower-desire partner would not mind cuddling while the other person masturbates
–Lots of masturbation
–Divorce
–An open relationship (anything from full polyamory to “I’ll overlook the occasional sex worker”)
UNREASONABLE SOLUTIONS
–Rape
A significant number of 20-something and 30-something women spend all of their disposable income on luxury rental apartments, upscale restaurants, frequent exotic vacations, leased cars, spa treatments, and excessive amounts of clothing, purses, shoes and accessories.
Um, so what? It’s the imaginary women’s money. They can spend it however they like.
I spend most of my disposable income on comic books and tiki memorabilia, and I don’t recall ever submitting an application to the Misogynist Douchebag High Council to get permission to do that.
Oddly enough, most of the men in their 20s and 30s who I know who have decent jobs and disposable income also spend most of it on nice apartments, eating out, clothes, cars, etc. Doing that isn’t a sign that women are evil, it’s just a sign that young people with disposable income tend to spend it on fun things.
As a twentysomething with a vagina, my last few purchases were as follows:
–Tampons
–Energy bars
–A rashguard/trunks combo for swimming
–A long-sleeve shirt
–Repainting my damn room at college
–Library fines (or as I prefer to call them “mandatory donations”)
–Assorted fan art (inc. presents)
–A steampunk octopus
–Three nerd-related T-shirts
–A haircut
–Therapy
–Assorted eating out, mostly at various Asian places
–Tea
–BLUEBERRIES
–Bike repair
BOW BEFORE MY WASTEFUL SPENDING AND EXCESSIVE DISPOSABLE INCOME
@ozy Your reasonable/unreasonable summary of solutions to a sexless relationship seems pretty much perfect, which is why MRAs will ignore it. Still, thanks.
Man, I want a steampunk octopus.
Drac: Unfortunately I don’t have it anymore. 🙁 It was cool while it lasted.
Aw, that’s too bad.
I just bought a hat! It’s a black straw fedora, which I purchased to stop me dying in the heat. Wool is not so good for that sort of thing.
Speaking as a 20-something woman, the most exciting not-strictly-necessary purchase I made in the past few weeks was…a new wastebasket. It cost $6. It is blue. It looks nicer than my old wastebasket, which was metal and had started to rust.
Once again, I find myself wanting to move to the MRA universe, where that $6 could apparently have gotten me a spa treatment or an exotic vacation. (I’m not even completely sure what a spa treatment is, besides “something that people in my income bracket don’t get,” but it sounds like it’s probably nice.)
I mostly spend my disposable income on cheapish clothes, comics, other geeky paraphanalia and moderately priced restaurants. Occassionally i will donate to a charity and I gave a homeless man a dollar last weekend. Not much but its something.
MRAs hate the fact that women have disposable income, or any income for that matter because it means women are no longer so desparate to survive they have no other choice but to depend on abusive MRA shitbags. I can honestly say even if I were suddenly thrust into poverty I’d rather scrub toilets for the rest of my life than depend on one of these fuckers.
Polli: In my experience they’re really overrated and involve much painful removal of hair. Pedicures are nice though.
And once again I’m reminded of the damned if you do, damned if you don’t conundrum
Single career woman: CAREER BITCH WHO SPENDS DISPOSABLE INCOME IN WAYS I DISAGREE WITH!!!
Stay at home mom: LAZY LEECH EVENTUALLY OUT FOR MY ALLIMONIES AND HOUSE!!!!!!!