Yesterday, we took a look at Ferdinand Bardamu’s manosphere manifesto “The Necessity of Domestic Violence,” a thoroughly despicable piece of writing that concludes:
Women should be terrorized by their men; it’s the only thing that makes them behave better than chimps.
I decided to take a look at Bardamu’s post yesterday after running across a discussion of it in Reddit’s new FeMRA subreddit, a forum ostensibly devoted to what “women can do to advance men’s rights as women.” It’s a strange little subreddit, started by a man and dominated by some of Reddit’s most unsavory MaleMRAs, some of them banned in the regular Men’s Rights subreddit.
Recently one of the most unsavory of the bunch, calling himself JeremiahGuy this time, posted a link to Bardamu’s domestic violence manifesto, which he hosts on his website. Jeremiah naturally used the discussion as an excuse to post more apologias for domestic “discipline” along the lines of the quote from him I featured yesterday.
But I was a little surprised to see GirlWritesWhat, the blabby FeMRA video blogger who’s captured the hearts of Reddit’s Men’s Rights crowd, step into the conversation with something of a defense of Bardamu’s noxious views. After reading Bardamu’s manifesto – the one advocating that men “terrorize” their women to make them behave – GWW blithely concluded:
I don’t really find too much in the article that strikes me as seriously ethically questionable.
Have I taken that remark out of context? Yes. In context, it’s worse. Here’s the entire quote from her, and a further clarification of her position.
She wasn’t the only one in the discussion to get upvotes for suggesting that men slapping women around from time to time isn’t really such a big deal. MaunaLoona (a MaleMRA) wrote:
Lots of MRAs like to pretend that they care about male victims of domestic violence. But the Men’s Rights movement hasn’t done shit for them. And here, I think, is why: too many MRAs are less interested in helping male victims of domestic violence than they are in providing excuses and justifications for male abusers.
Like a certain someone….
*conspiracy goggles on*
This DOES mean that MRAs understand that if it’s okay for a man to hit a woman as a relationship balance, it’s perfectly okay for a woman to hit/emasculate/insult/”keep him edge and humiliated” right?
No? Imagine that.
But he posts so little of substance. Half of that is barely worth talking about.
So why do you come here?
I’m a little bummed that turned out to be Pell. He kept the trolling going for a day or so at relatively low levels, but his ego as usual just couldn’t stand not to be known.
And that’s just really, really sad.
If we’re making up titles we pretend to have I want to be the Procurator of Justice. Because it just sounds awesome.
Damn it, I oversleep and miss an awesome meltdown.
Welp, I’d better get back to my job as Senior Papal Supervisor. I tell you, if Benny Sixteen takes another ninety minute lunch, that’s going on his record.
Back when MR*L was new, I claimed the title of Men’s Rights Space Pope.
This has not lapsed. I got dibs.
If Steele is a lulz troll then I would like to congratulate him on his very effective impersonation of a person who can’t write for shit.
Well, if we’re making silly names for ourselves…I want to be known as Queen of the Bedly Goodness.
What is a pillowinhell, anyway? I’m curious. I imagine it’s something along the lines of “People in hell want ice water,” only pillow is substituted for ice water.
It stems from “I’m so tired I’d accept a pillow in hell, if the devil offered me one”.
Chronic low energy here. Doctors say I’m the picture of health, but I’m telling you only the Greek god of Sleep could beat me in falling asleep.
Dear MRAs,
Please, do advertise that you enjoy assaulting people. Preferably within the earshot of law enforcement officers.
Hell, I’ll buy you a T-shirt- “I’m an abusive asshole who doesn’t mind beating the shit out of people I think are weaker than I am because that makes me feel good about myself.”
Hopefully this will lead to people (rightfully) not wanting to touch you with a ten foot pole. Or talk to you. Or, indeed, ever interact with you if they can at all help it.
I don’t know if I’ve ever wished that Reddit MRA Island would actually HAPPEN more than I do at this moment.
OMG pell is back? MUST GO UPDATE THE BIOGRAPHY
Girlwriteswhat is apparently having some people calling the DMCA on her head and everybody is blaming PZ Myers and Freethought Blog. Because obviously it’s the “atheist bullies” who never heard of her that are involved, and not somebody who might have gotten peeved at her defending indefensible shit like, I dunno, domestic violence.
And it couldn’t possibly be someone who got put in the hospital by one of her loyal followers, could it?… Nah, one of those eevil libruls did it.
Pillowinhell, try the following:
1. B-12
2. Iron tabs
3. Cuban coffee, alternated every two times with
4. Sangria.
And I wasn’t there for it. There is no justice in the world. This, however, is fantastic:
Ignore me if someone already mentioned it, but a keylogger logs, um, keys. If you installed one on a server, it wouldn’t pick up anything because servers don’t even have keyboards.
Ah, Cliff had it covered.
@ katz
He also installed a pedometer on David’s chair, because he’s just that much of a genius.
He also installed a magnet on David’s shoe so he can tell when David leaves the house.
And since I also missed the “big moths” conversation, this one wants to give you a kiss.
Is it in bad taste if I mention the fact that the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word “pedometer” is some sort of measuring device to calculate the amount of pedophiles in the general area?
Reynardine, as internet advice goes… I LIKE IT!
Eight out of six minor daemons of Pandemonium reccommend Reynards Cure for all that ails you!
He installed a sphygmomanometer on David’s cats to monitor their taurine levels.
He put an anemometer on a satellite to measure solar wind.