It’s hard to parody Men’s Rights Activists, because no matter how ridiculous your parody is, there’s a good chance that some MRA out there has already said, or written, or sung, something even more ridiculous already.
Not that long ago, a bunch of Man Boobz regulars set out to parody the bizarre, and often inadvertently surrealistic, posters that have been popping up on MRA sites like A Voice for Men and Artistry Against Misandry. It was hard, but I think some of us managed to come up with posters that were even uglier and less coherent than the originals. I especially liked these two, from (respectively) Cliff Pervocracy and Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III.
But alas, we have been outmaneuvered by the all-too-serious poster-makers on A Voice for Men, who have managed to produce posters that make even less sense than our silliest parodies. Take a look at this one, which I believe is the work of an Australian MRA by the name of Roger O. Thornhill.
I mean, really. How can we compete with that?
This is an actual poster that some MRAs think will actually win people over to their cause. How, I’m not exactly sure. What exactly about a cupcake with a tiara is supposed to scream “men’s rights” to random pedestrians who might catch a glimpse of this poster wheatpasted to a hoarding while on their way to work?
For more of Roger’s fine work, see here and here.
Man Boobzers, can you do better?
Or, if you’re not up to that Herculean task, could you at least try to explain just what exactly you think Mr. Thornhill was trying to say with that poster of his?
EDITED TO ADD: I have been asked to contribute a poster myself. So here one is. You can find many more hilarious and incredibly ugly posters at ArtistryForFeminismAndKittens and, of course, in the comments below!
That women promise the nookie when you marry them and don’t deliver? Which doesn’t make sense, since they keep telling us that women are only boinkable until they’re 25 or so. And the quotes INSIDE the bubble? And what do recipes have to do with anything?
…is the cupcake… a lie?
Bait and switch?
Did you see the “Eek! A mouse!” one? I really don’t think these guys understand the concept of not preaching to the choir.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Eek-A-Mouse.pdf
http://s899.beta.photobucket.com/user/sBagelsan/media/mensrights.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
So, recipes are just cooking instructions, not actual food that you can eat. I honestly don’t understand what the fuck the princess cupcake is meant to be saying in that poster.
Don’t ignore the fact that the word “Life” is inappropriately capitalized. That MUST mean something!
@blitzgal
Recipes must be porn, because it’s not actually having sex, it’s instructions how, I guess? The cupcake is telling men that they’ll never get to have sex because feminists don’t want them to get fat?
My head hurts from trying to figure out their logic. I’m going back to lurking now.
Yay, Bagelsan. Here is my pitiful attempt, using an actual “headline” from AVfM:
http://i.imgur.com/om6UP.jpg
And you must have seen this, right?
Raise your hand if you would assume the cupcake poster was for a cooking website if you knew nothing about the MRM. Message fail.
Maybe it’s because we occasionally discuss food, and all women are spoilt princesses, and the most evil of spoilt princess women discuss food and recipes here?
It would be like them to be that internally-referential (sorta). And MRAs do seem to loathe us (probably because we take the piss out of them).
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post says that Daniel Craig’s Bond is why women have expectations and shit, and why 23 year old women won’t fuck him. LOL.
http://gawker.com/5963581/james-bond-is-the-reason-richard-cohen-cant-date-23+year+olds
@ Roger’s poster and blitzgal’s link: what the heck?
The poster would do well in a contest for surrealism, though.
I love yours Cloudiah. Maybe they’re trying to lure women onto their website with the promise of cupcakes recipes (because women, kitchens cooking, amirite guys?) in the hopes that they’ll see the posts renounce their evil feminist ways and become the doormats the MRAs want
@blitzgal
I’m 23 and I’ve never seen a Bond film, and yet I still don’t want to sleep with that man.
How odd.
@Noadi – that’s what I thought! It looks like a silly or self-parodying ad a cake shop put up, maybe fore a competition.
Is it just my age showing, or do the eyes on that cake look like the coughdesignercough was harking back to the I Dream of Jeannie title cartoon, where her eyes are shown on the bottle?
I thought it looked familiar!
I googled “princess cupcakes a voice for men” and all I found was stuff relating to this and stuff about Adventure Time. One of these things is not like the other.
Their images about feminists and feminism are, uh, interesting. When feminists are depicted they’re either old harpy witches—or, on the other hand, as patriarchal stereotypes of weak women. Oh, and they’re always women. I guess they’re not brave enough to bring up their “mangina” schtick to the public.
Anyway, IMO this one tops the Cupcake Princess by quite a bit:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/feminazi_final.pdf
My favorite part is the boxcutter.
And for sheer stupendously bad design, there’s this:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8xPFIPRZ75AVnhLZjM5RVdzMU0/edit?pli=1
@thenatfantastic
How dare you have the audacity to choose who you fuck? Misandrist!
The “are you a happy feminist” one makes me laugh, partly because I suspect it’s the idea of anyone being happy that upsets these douchebags as much as the idea of anyone being a feminist. I mean, what does their so-called activism do for any of them? Never seen such a miserable, hate-filled, incoherent bunch of losers.
@Tulgey Logger
Why is there a unicorn?!
I mean, I’m feminist anyway, but seriously, if being feminist meant free unicorns for everyone I’d be really really excited whilst galloping off on my feminist unicorn surrounded by multicoloured flower petals and golden sparkles.
Of course Bagelsan tops the cupcake one in five seconds. So glad you’re back!
Hum… I’d guess the cupcake’s purpose is to make the viewer go OMGWTFBBQ and then go see at the address WTF is going on. But since this is an inside joke and inside jokes come with a particular psychology, I doubt that’s what they intended with this.
The text further confuses this. Is it supposed to attract housewives who like to bake?
Wait, you mean you’ve never heard of the Einhornglitzernkampf?
Jeez, read up on feminist history. I hear there are free updates on avoiceformen dot com.
Greatest. German. Word. EVER.