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!
Makes me think of the few times I tried riding a bike. Way too painful to pursue!
I decided that my original design (cough) made it too hard to read JtO’s fine writing, so I updated it:
http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/posterrepro3.jpg
Also, Creative, ouch!
Even better, David!
Damn, reading JohnthePother’s nonsense makes me wish blokes like him could get pregnant. Not that I’d want a child to be borne by ’em, but just to bring the whole business home.
One of us! One of us!
I love the timecube reference. Pretty much sums it up.
Dear Failsuz, you inspired this one:
http://i.imgur.com/xI040.jpg
Yay! The circle is complete; the blogger has now postered.
Also, on that Good Girl Gina meme, what the ever-loving f***? Rating: 54.
Cloudiah: FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU…
I’m surprised they didn’t say outright “is grateful” or something equally horrible.
Joe, dude, you’re the one who wants to make the ability to disown your children (but retain the right to make sure they don’t know you did so in case they think badly of you) because of nothing but money a vital part of your political beliefs. I know that you were hoping that you could bully everyone into not pointing out how cold and selfish that is, but sorry, you’re out of luck here.
Also, OMG MY BALLS ARE SO DELICATE! You realize that the IUD is also super painful to insert, and women quite willingly put up with that because it works, right? I mean, obviously if it hurts women then it’s going to be less important to you than OMG MY BALLS, but just for the record. Right now all of the contraceptive options we have are crappy in one way or another. I’m all for better options for everyone, but it would be nice if you’d be less of a selfish, sexist baby about it.
On driversuz, I would accept the creepy stuff about how all women should want her son as possibly legit because some mothers do get weird about their sons, but the fact that she doesn’t know what he’s studying? I’m calling bullshit based on that part. Any mother who bases her entire self-worth around her son would know what he was studying, because it would reflect on her.
http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg595/capnben1/alphabadbys.jpg
Also, as a Brit I keep wanting to read driversuz’s comment as “not hoovering”. Bad traditional housewife! No approval cookie for you! No wonder your son won’t tell you his major.
Holy fuck, that GGG is atrocious.
Bodsworth immediately made up for it, though. Thanks, Bodsy.
In addition, http://imgur.com/iE2XQ
Hard feminist chairs! Or is that where Obama’s sitting? Either way, MISANDRY!
It makes me think she either doesn’t know what a major is, or has no idea what hovering is. My mum can rattle off all six of her children’s majors, and where they work. She doesn’t hover. The woman I saw one time at registration day, who sat down with her daughter and began an epic long spiel about WHYHASNTMYPRECIOUSBBYBEENACCEPTEDINTOTHISLIMITEDENTRYCLASS for fifteen minutes (Newsflash: it’s cos she failed the pre-requisites) – Oh yeah, she was a-hoverin.
It’s been pointed out that my poster was a bit trans-erasurey, so I’ve improved it again:
http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/posterreprobee.jpg
But wouldn’t an MRM poster be trans-erasurey? I mean, Manly Men and all that shite.
Oh look, it’s a picture of The First Joe!
http://s899.beta.photobucket.com/user/sBagelsan/media/mensrights2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
Great Ceiling Cat, Bagelsan, you’ve caught his expression perfectly!
“Why can’t I legally disown my child? Women are allowed too!”
“Well, sir, you see, the problem is that you are 2 years old.”
Okay, here’s my poster attempt. http://i.imgur.com/KCSY8.jpg
One of us! One of us!
Hey everyone, I’m trying to link to Man Boobz on my current blog entry, but I can’t figure out the code – do I have the http:// before “manboobz.com”, or www, or just the name, or what? None of them work.
You don’t need www, because that’s not part of the address. I don’t know how your blog works (but would love a link!), but I’m thinking what’s most likely to work is http://manboobz.com. Have you ever been able to link to a page successfully in the past?
I had no idea ‘hover’ was a euphemism for ‘give a shit about my pretend son’.
Clairedammit – thank you! 🙂 This is the post I just wrote. It’s a WordPress blog, and I don’t have any trouble linking to stuff like Wiki articles, but it didn’t want to know about the http addy, or just the name, either. I’ve given up on the link in the text for the moment, and put the link in the sidebar instead. Probably better, it’ll be permanent that way.
Argh – “the link” twice in one sentence. Shoulda been the missing link there …