Yep, that’s right, the “clopping” sound of high heels are a form of “street harassment.” I found the screenshot above on a promising new blog you can find at MensRightsActivism.com. Yep, that’s right. Evidently it never occurred to anyone in the Men’s Rights movement to lock down that domain name.
Oh, this little Reddit screenshot is good too:
How exactly does saying “consent is sexy” mean that male consent is taken for granted? How is it that 59 people thought that comment deserved an upvote?
I can’t answer either question, but there’s lots more hilarious and appalling stuff where that came from, mostly from the Men’s Rights subreddit. It’s going in the “antidotes to boobery” blog roll.
Argenti the early 60’s
I feel so sorry for this guy’s granddaughters.
“I’m so happy, I made the soccer team!”
“Back in my day girls didn’t want to play sports”
“How do you know?”
“Well, none of them told me so.”
“Aren’t you happy for me that I made the team?”
“Title IX has ruined America.”
Gramps, less choices existing is not the same thing as people not wanting more choices.
I agree Cassandra
Argenti – no kidding. Not only was my mother a feminist before the internet, so was I. (Or at least, before I knew about or had any access to the internet, which comes down to basically the same thing.) I wouldn’t say it’s fractally wrong, but it is at least a very yummy layer cake of wrongness.
because title ix is about a lot more than sports, dude
grampmk — “Well Argenti in the 60′s there was no internet, there were no feminists.” — can I share that in other public-like places? (My facebook wall is only readable by my friends, so it isn’t really public public, but it isn’t the privacy of email either)
Everyone — thoughts on the ethics of sharing a public comment on FB? (And speaking of FB, anyone who remembers that tiny kitten my cousin found, damned do they grow fast)
just because you werent aware of feminism doesnt mean it didnt exist, champ.
Public comments on public blog are fair game, I think.
Oh, he means no feminists before the early sixties. I get it now. That certainly explains the suffrage movement, Seneca Falls, and Mary Wollstonecraft (and my mother). Except for all the ways it doesn’t…
To put this in a slightly more polite way – Gramps, part of your issue seems to be not understanding that things still exist/existed even if you are/were not personally aware of them. Which is why you make statements like “Well Argenti in the 60′s there was no internet, there were no feminists” and people laugh at you, because there is documented evidence of feminists going back a whole lot further than the early 60s.
Cute kitten Argenti. You can copy and paste anything you find on the net. But when I said 60’s I was referring to 60 -64 which was quite different than the late 60’s
“but it is at least a very yummy layer cake of wrongness.”
Yes, the wrongness is making up for my lack of birthday cake.
Sharculese — that was me asking about Title IX, but you’re right, I suppose the fight for Title IX probably was about a lot more than just sports.
Grampmk, just out of curiosity, when do you think the US civil rights movement started?
because there is documented evidence of feminists going back a whole lot further than the early 60s.
Yes Cassandra you are correct. I should have stated more clearly that I and my classmates were unaware of these facts at the time.
Lol, of all the things to accuse me of lying about, he picks whether that’s my cousins cat or not (honestly, I’m not sure whether he’s keeping the kitty or not, but tiny kitty was a too-cold-to-shiver abandoned-road-side kitty a week ago, so I thought anyone who remembered me mentioned that might be pleased to see that kitty is doing well).
And that quote is going on FB then, because damn.
I agree and acknowledge that Sharculese
Yeah, Title IX also made it illegal for public schools to force pregnant students to drop out or attend alternative schools.
Argenti, I think his copy and paste remark was saying it’s okay to quote him.
Looks like that cat has already learnt the best way to trick humans, muahaha.
Grampmk, just out of curiosity, when do you think the US civil rights movement started?
Clouddiah if you are asking if I was aware of the Civil Rights Movement in high school, I was, but in my small town we were not up to date on many national issues. The communications today are many times better than in those days
cloudiah — ah ok, I was wondering why anyone would decide to question who owns a kitty.
We’re about to have another thread explode into 1,000+ comments here aren’t we?
grampmk : My father (who would be around the same age as you, maybe a few years older) grew up in a very, very tiny town in Michigan, and he knew about the civil rights movement when he was fairly young – he had this amazing little thing called a radio that allowed him to listen to what my grandmother called ‘race music’ and hear news from far away places!
grampmk, you are quite new to this community. I am certainly not one of the oldest or most regular of posters, but I have been flitting about on the fringes for a while, so I feel somewhat capable of offering this advice:
I’m noticing a pattern, where you say X, and people respond, with evidence, that X is factually incorrect, and then you backpedal and say well, what I meant was, my perception was X. It might help you very much if a) you make it very explicit in your writing what you are holding out as fact and what you are presenting as your own experiences, and b) what you are hoping to achieve out of your interactions on this site. What is the purpose of communicating that you and your peers were unaware of feminism prior to the late 60s? This isn’t a particularly surprising revelation, and it doesn’t seem logically connected to the prior conversation. Maybe it would help to outline your thoughts? Are you advancing a particular point of view? Are there specific things that you would like to convey? Because right now it’s sort of muddled.
And one thing I’ve learned from flitting about on the fringes for a while is that anyone who shows up who seems sympathetic to the MRA world-view is already on thin ice, and someone who seems sympathetic to the MRA world-view who can’t communicate clearly is just going to get shredded.
BTW that kitten is adorable, Argenti. I can’t help make this thread explode because I’m off to see Beasts of the Southern Wild. Have fun, all!
grampmk — Are you arguing that things only existed if you knew they did? I mean, maybe that’s what you actually thought at 16, but you haven’t been 16 in some time, so you must realize that was a mistake of youth right?
Yeah, this doesn’t just apply to “do feminists exist” but also to “do any girls want to play sports”.