It’s a proud day for the dudes over at A Voice for Men, which is celebrating the landing of the Curiousity rover on Mars by giving dudes everywhere serious dude credit for the event, which apparently involved no women at all. Well, maybe a few. But it certainly didn’t involve any of the women in the women’s studies department at Columbia University!
Actually it would be rather difficult for that to be the case. Impossible, really, as there is no women’s studies department at Columbia. Instead, Columbia has an Institute for Research on Women and Gender, an interdisciplinary center that works in cooperation with the Barnard College Women’s Studies department.
In any case, that once sentence is the entire text of the post, which linked to a live feed of the landing.
But to make sure everyone understands the MAN-significance of this MAN-vent, the AVFM dudes promoted it with this MAN-tastic blurb on the front page. (I mean the blurb on the right, of course, celebrating MEN and their UTTER MASTERYof technology. Just ignore that bit on the left about the technical glitches that AVFM has itself been having lately.)
The comments are more or less what we’ve come to expect from the AVFM crowd. I especially liked these two, from a manly fellow calling himself ActaNonVerba.
His followup is a bit Anthony Zarat-esque in its utopian grandeur:
@cliff
have you noticed they keep re-running the same piece from months ago on the artistry against misandry event, without any indication that it’s moved forward in any way
Sharculese – They also announced a “ZetaCamp” that was planned for this July, never announced a cancellation, and yet there’s no after-action report or any mention of it after May.
A thousand pardons. I was too busy with the witchcraft and lesbianism.
These are the women in the control room on that historic day:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarabrown/2012/08/06/the-women-in-the-blue-shirts-who-dare-mighty-things/
I thought women were inferior and had no drive for ambition because they weren’t competing amongst themselves for the ladies and just sat around on their pedestals waiting for a man to take care of them. Now I’ve learned the truth: women aren’t just useless but are apparently actively conspiring to hold men back from being technological ubermensches. Thanks for giving me that red pill, ActaNonVerba.
Oh, so you feminists think men are just drooling cavemen who can’t control themselves, huh? You think you “womyn” are just sooo special that you can make intelligent MEN act as if they’re horny teenagers, huh? You’re such MISANDRISTS!!!!
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(Huh, what’s that? Really, that can’t be right, can it? They’re feminists, they’re the bad ones! Oh, fine!)
Ok, so I have just been informed that it is the MRAs saying those things, but you’re still evil. Because MISANDRY!!!!
Hm, not one human resources in the bunch.
What a sad, pathetic existence ActaNonVerba leads. The mere sight of a woman — any woman — leaves him scrambling for ways to diminish or denigrate her. His entire existence is filled with hate and impotent rage. Sad, sad little man. You’re a creep.
I love how men are credited with every achievement but none of the bad.
Were woman responsible for the Rwanda genocide, the massacres in Yugoslavia, the rape of Nanking? No, that was men, own that as well guys.
Y’know, I’m sure Neil Armstrong is a great guy and all, but let’s not forget all the affirmative action that put him on the moon.
I mean, he was an astronaut at a time when the quota for male astronaut hiring was, er, 100%.
Oh, I’m sure they’d find some way of blaming women for all the bad things.
So I totally went on Google to see if anyone had started talking Curiousity conspiracy theories.. I wasn’t disappointed.
Highlight: Someone who thought that Google putting the rover in the background of one of their Olympic doodles was part of the plot to prepare us for contact with aliens.
Short answer: Zero
Long answer: The people in the room during the landing are not the entire team (they work in shifts). No, the people in the room are the most qualified engineers on the project. Because when you’re using a hovering crane to lower a $2.6 billion rover on another planet and something goes wrong you want the most qualified engineers making adjustments and you don’t give a shit what kind of genitals they have(not that there’s much they could do at that point what with the communications taking 7 minutes each direction and the descent only taking 7 minutes total).
@Pam:
They already have. Wars are started and men fight and kill each other because women are cheering them on, or the men are trying to fight a war to get with women, or something.
“Behind every great man is a woman pulling the strings.” This may or may not actually be a quote.
So the women are all either PR or HR? Well, they’re obviously not HR, there’s no way HR would be allowed to hang out in the control room. That leaves PR.
Hey, NASA publishes a list of their PR officers! Fancy that!
http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/public-affairs-points-of-contact/
And the PR officer covering Mars exploration is named… Guy Webster.
ooops.
I forgot about this! I will have to start making references to it whenever I can find an excuse to.
Hello mater,
Hello pater
Here I am at
A camp for Zetas
They’ve had how many articles so far about their recent poster run? I guess that counts as a meetup since more than one person was involved.
Cliff, obviously that’s a woman. I totally know a lot of women named Guy.
David, it hardly matters. If the PR officer were a woman, it would prove she’d been put in a useless talking-head position for PC reasons. But since he’s a man, it proves women aren’t competent to take the job.
One way that MRAs are like NASA: they have contingency plans for everything.
actually, yes, owlslave has previously stated that because one mouthpiece for the rwandan government was a woman, women are responsible for the genocide
…Now I’m just thinking how Guy Webster probably hasn’t slept in two weeks, and I’m not sure if what I’m feeling is pity or envy.
…It’s envy.
Don’t get your knickers in a bunch ladies. According to the latest feminist research, a mans brain is a damaged womans brain. Why its all the rage in the feminist community. Hell, they teach in our colleges. Oh? Was it love you wanted in return? Well, ya know. Men are bad. Isn’t that where, Dave is going today? I’ll bet that won’t be in his little hate screed.
Apparently over on Skepchick and other feminist sites it’s called, “punching up.” Because all men are privileged. Ya know up. So now it’s official. It’s acceptable to ridicule men.
Feminist theory says men are privileged.
Feminist theory says men are oppressors.
Since women don’t lie it must be true.
It’s always OK to ridicule the oppressors.
Women have carte blance to ridicule men.
And it’s always good.
Wow! Feminist theory does work!
Oh, well, maybe women really don’t have the right stuff. I’m a half century old and I’ve failed to stop history in its tracks thus far, so I’m not in much of a position to argue. But you know, Mr. Verba doesn’t have to wait for the country to be divided in half by legislative fiat. (Incidentally, that sounds kind of big-governmenty to me.) He can found his all-male colony where men are free to be true to their inmost awesomeness at any time he pleases, after which he can revel in his liberty while writing a few symphonies and founding some new branches of physics. Oh, wait. Guys like him often live in close-to-totally male environments anyway (I can easily picture this being the case with Mr. Verba) and if that’s so, then in effect, he already enjoys the scope and range he longs for. Supposing this to be the right view of matter, then where, may I ask, are the proofs of awesomeness which Mr. Verba, theoretically, is willing/able to donate to a dazzled planet? Where are the symphonies and where’s the antigravity drive? (I ask because, as a woman, I’m eager to find a frivolous use for anything Mr. Verba may choose to invent. Just think, for instance, how cool it would be to be able to buy a real floaty pen.)
Favorite thing ever: justaloser drops by to tell us how this article is so, so, so SO one-sided!
And then mentions that if you’re a loser here, you’re a loser forever.
But he’s the one with a screen name of loser.
………woooooooow…..
This morning I took a dump that should get me to Neptune at least.
Now where’s my plaque?
@howard
it’s sort of like the dudes who dont get who the sites name refers to and are like ‘you, youre the boobz’
ALIENS!