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!
What did I do that you want to make me read the Spearhead on women in the military?
It won’t be original, just look at the quote you used: Now that we’re calling people who are innately better suited to giving hummers than to driving in them soldiers, it’s time to call it quits.
Not only does that fail to clue in on what being a soldier is, it’s just the usual, “women can’t drive” married to a blow-job joke, a mis-used word (no one in the Army calls a humvee a hummer, it’s a humvee, a HMMWV, a cutvee, or “the truck”, depending on context), and a reference to humvees being, “manly”.
These morons don’t realise that the 88M (army for, “truck-drivers” who haul big-rigs (the kind that move 60+tons of M1A2/3 tanks from place to place; because driving them on roads makes them break down) are largely female? That they race those fucking things (empty), and are able to park them to a fare thee well?
So we know these yahoos weren’t in the military (but they are TOTES! qualified, being manly men of the He-Man Women Haters club).
If they were, they’d not be complaining of the things they are complaining about.
Joe, you’ve used up your quota of “misandrist bigot” for the day. Heck, week. Try to restrain yourself a little or you go in moderation.
Cloudiah, when is Hitler Cupcake Day this year? I always forget.
(Random and off topic) Genetics is misandry! I have growing pains! My sisters never got growing pains. Stupid misandrist late blooming genetic code.
*Im bored of joe too. And my legs hurt.
WeeBoy, I had awful growing pains. Hell, I still get growing pains even though I’m 23 and stopped growing when I was 11 years old and 5’1 >:(
More random and off topic – I have finally finished 3 12-hour-long working days! And I’m going on holiday tomorrow!
I see Joe still does have a handle on the difference between mean and median and is drunk posting again.
Bored now.
Y’all’s posters are screamingly funny.
Huzzah for holidays! Are you going anywhere, or just staying at home? 🙂
Speaking of Hitler Cupcake day… In my aesthetic oeuvre, I like to explore the tensions between post industrial nudism and terpsichorean capitalism, utilizing a rigorously formal approach.
I meant he does NOT have a handle on those things.
Today is not my day. More dental issues–this time a giant abscess, and a trip to the endodontist. Boo.
We’re going to Brussels for the weekend with two friends. It should be fun, the last time I actually went on holiday (apart from to music festivals) was in 2007, normally when I take time off I’m just going to see my mum and sisters back up North. I don’t know whether I’m excited for Belgium or just happy to have finally finished work, I didn’t think to take tomorrow off (we’re not setting off until the evening but I need to pack, cook and clean) so I’ve had to work all of Thursday’s hours and a couple of Friday’s over the past three days, blech.
p.s. I think a certain blogowner (initials: D.F.; rumored city of residence: Chicago; favorite food: misandrist sushi) needs to make a poster. Otherwise we all just look like your trained monkeys, dude.
Natfantastic: That sounds wonderful, have fun!
Yay for holidays! Boo to giant abscesses! 🙁
Cheers hellkell. Sorry about your mouth 🙁
Brussels sounds like fun! I hope you get a decent night’s sleep before you head off. Twelve hour days, YUCK.
Nudism? Did I see the word nudism? Is this a chance to
bragmention that I saw a naked king for a moment this morning?@Nat – Ha, we’re the same age. I’m hoping this last spurt puts me over 5’6. Otherwise its hardly worth it.
A what?
WeeBoy, I was going to say *twenty three-fives*, but then I thought that fingers and toes would only add up to twenty and then it sounded too rude to say, but then I ruined it all by writing a comment mentioning it anyway.
Have fun on your holiday, thenatfantastic! Hellkell, I hope your mouth is better soon.
Yes, DF, make a poster! It is impossible to make a bad-bad poster, they are all good-bad. Make one!
Joe-Bob: @Fitzy – no I have no problem at all with a paperwork “sworn statement” legally filed for a “paper abortion”. In fact that would naturally be a legal requirement. I DO have a problem with Amused’s sick idea that the disowning father make a VIDEO stating such and the kid be forced to watch it. That’s just fucking sick. Also, it’s sexist, because women are not forced to do anything like that when they give up a child for adoption / fostering.
Because no one ever makes a foster/adopted child feel their mother didn’t love them enough to keep them. Nope. society lavishes praise on the woman who gave them up for “doing right by them”.
And I shit sparkling unicorns out my ass.
And you think another £250 a month is basically pocket change?
Check your class privelege asshole.
Then don’t get anyone pregnant unless you know they won’t keep the child.
Because the issue, which you (as is your standard rhetorical wont) are trying to cloud, is very simple.
Kids have needs.
You want to let fathers skip out on those needs.
You want women to have to bear all the costs, and burdens, in exchange for a man being able to walk away for the cost of filing a piece of paperwork.
You think “she chose to have the kid, she can pay”.
Nope. He chose to have sex. Sex carries the risk of pregnancy. Pregnancy often leads to children.
Children have needs.
You don’t care. The Dude has to be allowed to “go his own way”. If he leaves a swathe of kids behind (because he’s got the moral fibre of a wet-napkin), each of them in a household struggling to make ends me… well that was her choice, right?
No. It wasn’t. If the kid ends up in foster care (a system just overflowing with bountiful resources), that’s not a concernd of yours.
Because The Dude has to be allowed to abjure responsibility; to put it all off on the woman.
That’s your entire argument… she is responsible. If the dude want’s to fuck and fly, that’s fine. She has to clean up the mess.
And you want him to be allowed to get off scot free. Amused idea is just fine with me. Odds are the mother won’t ever show the video to the child, but the father will know it’s out there. He’ll know that, should he change his mind, and try to backdoor a meeting, that the kid might know.
As to the problem of income… in the UK, Median wages are £499 a week. After taxes the average family has about £20,000 of disposable income. Average gross hourly pay is £12.50 for men, £10.91 for women.
Sales/customer service jobs pay a bit less, with a median weekly income of £303, or a monthly of just over £1,200. Given that women make up the majority of the sales/customer service workforce, we can assume a man in such a line of work will be making a little more than that; in keeping with the roughly 20 percent difference in median wages for men and women.
So yes, paying £175† per month on that might be a bit of a drain. On the other hand, that’s far from half of what it costs to rear a child, and he might have thought about that before he pulled his pecker out.
Personal responibility, and all that.
(data collated from HM Revenue and Customs and The Office for National Statistics)
† I say £175 because the range given was 300-400USD, and the conversion rate for the pound has been between 1.66-1.89 for most of the past few years.
thenatfantastic – this. Except he had a white tee-shirt on (this is an oldish picture).
Only trouble is, it’s hot enough here today without him going and raising the temperature even more! 😛
Okeydokey, Joe, I went back and re-read your comments to Cloudiah and Amused. You’re right, I did misrepresent you in my paper abortion comment. That was sloppy initial reading on my part. I have some personal baggage regarding dads who have no interest in a kid until they’re grown, and I obviously let that get in the way. I’m sorry, that wasn’t fair to you.
Moving on.
Nope, not me. I think men should have a lot more contraceptive options in the comfort of their own home countries. Next assertion!
What I wrote (emphasis added):
I know that some people have more money than others. When my husband was still enlisted and I was waiting tables and going to school, we would have sorely missed $400 a month, no matter where it went. If you don’t have the money, you don’t have the money. That’s why I couched the final statement as an IF.
The beginning was just to give some perspective on how certain well-heeled SWPL yuppies might spend the money that could contribute to a child’s upkeep in a month. I have worked with such people. And I know that they do complain of such while they blow cash on dumb shit during the course of a regular day.
So,
…obviously applies to us both.
I love everyone’s posters – tis thread is my favorite thing today.
A naked king? Do tell…
Never mind (wow this thread moves fast)
Mr Kitteh was a king back in his earthly days. He never calls himself that now, but hey, as far as I’m concerned he’s my king even if he isn’t anyone else’s. 🙂 He did a little peel in the park to give me a happy this morning (benefit of being in Spirit: passerby on this side are highly unlikely to be able to see him!)