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:
@Elmer:
Yeah, because they were too busy sending a freaking robot to Mars! You say this like anybody cares or thinks its a bad thing.
(Full Disclosure: fuck yeah I want a co-worker. It’d be great to have a loved-one that I can nerd out with and that will understand me when I talk about cool things. ^_^)
@NWO
There is absolutely nothing hateful about David’s comment.
I didn’t grow up in “greater suburbia.” I grew up largely on military bases. It’s true that’s not the inner-city, but there were plenty of people of color.
I guess black soldiers/sailors/airmen don’t fit into NWO’s welfare queen and babydaddy stereotypes so well though.
@Uncle Elmer
You conveniently forget that maybe those women at NASA don’t want to cook for dinner for their husbands. Or maybe they cook only on their days off. Or maybe they like to cook together while enjoying a bottle of wine and chatting about the day’s events. Or maybe they are so wealthy they hire someone else to cook for them. Or maybe their husbands like to cook and so they are the ones who cook the family meals. OMG! What a perverted world we live in 🙂
@ragefromthebasement:
Kids these days… liking types of relationships other than one with a subservient and docile woman. What is the world coming to?
@Cliff Pervocracy
“I didn’t grow up in “greater suburbia.” I grew up largely on military bases. It’s true that’s not the inner-city, but there were plenty of people of color.”
If I want to know what it’s like to grow up on a military base and why they are the way they are, I’ll look you up. If you want to know what the ghetto is like and why it is the way it is, come see me. We all know who the racists are, princess. We who lived in the ghetto, call them feminists.
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
Which one of these tactics did you use, marxist? #1 I believe. By the way, me and Martin Luther King believe a man should be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. Every single feminist has used the term, “white privilege.” That is a judgement based on the color of one’s skin. I stand as an equal racist with Martin Luther King. Every feminist is a racist and a marxist.
Those 11 maxist point are the perfect description of feminism.
You belong to a foul racist, sexist hate movement. It began as one and it’s gotten worse.
slvaey pls.
We know that male aversion to intimacy is not a cultural universal. But here’s a puzzle for feminists. Feminists might predict that under traditionalist patriarchy, men would be afraid to hug other men, and the modern West’s feminism and LGBT movement would cure men of that fear. However, we see the opposite. Men hug men in traditional, patriarchal cultures, but in the 21st-century West such behavior is considered effeminate.
I have a friend who is an aerospace engineer. She works for Lockheed Martin at the moment but has been itching to get into NASA her whole life and I am sure she will get there because she has the drive and talent and definitely the intellect.
She even cooks as a hobby so there 😛
I tend to bristle at stereotypes of women because i am a stay at home parent (for now) and I don’t have a 4 year degree or any forseeable plans to get one. I am not especially very good at math or physics, but still no worse than the average man with the same level of education in the subjects. I prefer the “soft” sciences and “female” type jobs like social worker, art history teacher, etc. I think that things coded feminine have more value than they are often credited.
I guess I find myself being mad where I do fit the stereotype while also feeling like a failure when I don’t (I am a terrible cook and I dislike childcare as I can barely stand my own kids [joking]). And I know my husband – math geek gamer guy but also loves broadway musicals and dislikes violence and sports – feels similarly about both succeeding and failing the masculine stereotype. It is like gender essentialism hurts everyone.. O_O
We’ll get right on that, slave. Because you have such a balanced, accurate perspective of everything else.
Jesus tittyfucking Christ, NWO, stop being such a racist anti-semite gasbag. You’re a frothy asshole who really should just go find a fucking cave and live there.
“I had a dream that one day a vile philosophy known as feminism would visit the land and bring suffering to my people, who by the way are not oppressed at all.” — Martin Luther King, jr.
@hellkell
“Jesus tittyfucking Christ,”
Good job ridiculing the faith of one billion people. Feminism is a hate movement.
@Tulgey Logger
“who by the way are not oppressed at all”
White men can never be oppressed. Judgement by the color of their skin. Feminism is a hate movement.
@ronalon42
“It is like gender essentialism hurts everyone.. O_O”
Gender essentialism is a part of the feminist ideology of partiarchy, based on the notion that women are oppressed therefore men’s oppression is not acting like women. Hatred of the masculine. Feminism is a hate movement.
@fembot
“We’ll get right on that, slave. Because you have such a balanced, accurate perspective of everything else.”
I am a man who is not a feminist, tolerance of my opinion is ridiculed due to not following feminist dogma. I am hated for this. Feminism is a hate movement.
That part wasn’t an accusation, you fool.
No. It isn’t.
Care to explain your specific definition of “The masculine”?
Wow, you really showed me, Owly!
Did this sort of thing possibly happen to owly as a child?
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=341
Owly literally does not understand a thing.
I mean, some people would be embarrassed by being so egregiously, consistently, outstandingly wrong on even the most minor points, but for Owly that is all buried underneath his bigoted, racist, sexist, ragespume.
Oh, oh, oh, Owly, I dunno if I told you yet, but I’m the Illuminati, and the lizards are actually pretty nice people once you get to know them, you should dig to hollow earth and go meet them.
Saying “feminism is a hate movement” over and over does not make it true.
NWOslave, if someone calls you sexist and racist, the proper response is, “Oh, well. So were all the great men of history, so I’m not too offended.” You don’t know what you’re doing with this, “No, you’re the real sexists and racists!” Your opponents are of the tradition that invented those words; you cannot wield them.