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!
On topic: a cat!
http://imgur.com/06HZ0
OMG that kitty is so beautiful!
One more go at a poster.
Sorry guys, totally off-topic and I’m about to go to bed but my mum just told me this and I HAD to share it with you lot…
I have an 8 year old sister, who is totally frigging awesome. She doesn’t get along very well with girls at school because she’d rather play Vikings than Princesses, so she mainly hangs out with the boys. As a result, some of them have become somewhat over-enamoured with her, and yesterday she received her first marriage proposal. Her classmate said to her “TinyFantastic, you should marry me. We can have lots of children and you can look after them”. My sister looked utterly horrified, shouted “I’m not doing THAT. I want to be a SCIENTIST”, and stamped off.
<3 <3 <3
My little sister is the best.
YAY for your little sister!
Another misandristic feminazi in the making, I see! (but seriously, TinyFantastic sounds awesome.)
She is so cute. She’s totally been primed for it, my mum, my other sister and I spent this evening having a conversation about FemRAs. A few months ago she got given a project in school where she had to pick a famous Victorian to write about. She picked Elizabeth Garrett Anderson because she thought I’d approve XD
There’s also been at least two times that I’ve turned up at my mum’s house wearing the same clothes she is. I get really bummed that I can’t see her more often than a few days every six weeks, but this is what living at the other end of the country does to you 🙁 At least my country is tiny.
Oh and I’m reading your blog Kittehs, going to try and get as much in as I can before Belgium 🙂
Thank you, natfantastic! Hope you enjoy, and please feel free to drop a comment if you like! 🙂
Your mention of England being tiny reminds me of when a friend visited Scotland years back. She was heading to a tourist spot – Loch Ness, probably – and the hotel clerk was saying “Oh but you’ll have to stay overnight, it’s NINETY MINUTES away!”
This is adorawesome. (I was like that at her age, except I wanted to be a witch who ruled the world. Scientist is probably more realistic.)
Ninety minutes? Feh. Did the clerk rise at 12 and bed at 6? 😛
I…I feel a regendering coming on…
STEPS TO RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A MASCULINIST WORLD
(FOR MEN)
GET MARRIED AND STAY MARRIED. The most important thing a little girl needs is her DADDY. If you can’t get this step right, heaven help you and your daughter. All children need their fathers, but little girls in particular get chucked under the proverbial bus, loaded with single fathers demanding more attention, more obedience, more respect, more opportunities to crash Thanksgiving and drunkenly rant about getting raped by child support, more of everything they have not earned and do not deserve.
It’s a curious contradiction: MRAs want little girls to act like little boys EXCEPT when it comes to breaking their little girls’ hearts by mistreating or driving away their daughter’s mother. So man up.
RESPECT HER MIND. Little girls’ minds do not work the same as little boys’. Boys are happy to process visual data at an early age. They like to look at pictures. They will sit quietly and play video games and watch TV and look at pictures of dump trucks and do other passive, boring things that are clearly not as good as the things girls do.
Little girls do not want to sit quietly. They want to skip and sing and jump and discover and invent and dance and tumble around together. Eventually, they grow up and invent computer languages and write novels and discover the structure of DNA and be Secretary of State and do pretty much every other useful thing on the planet.
So don’t make girls behave themselves in school! Someday schools will realize the value of letting girls run around screaming while the boys are made to sit quietly and do their work, but it will take the PARENTS of those little girls to make it happen. Remember, manners are for the inferior sex, i.e. you.
CELEBRATE WOMEN. Create a home that welcomes and celebrates women. Have lots of books and pictures and toys and dolls and frilly tea-cozies and spaces that look like they were designed by and for women. Beer can collections and bowling trophies are fine for YOUR room, but your home should be a space that welcomes women. Treat your female friends and relatives with respect and courtesy and when the gals are outside on the back deck and need some wine coolers, get them for them. And when your wife hands her daughter a glass of Franzia, go inside and shut the hell up. That little girl is HER daughter, too.
Oh, one more thing. When she gets to be a teenager and starts spending a lot of time alone in her room, let your wife show her the “Supernatural” fanfiction.
I do like the fact that the UK is small…except when it comes to their roads because GAAAAAAAAAAH driving on teeny roads for four hours makes my hair fall out. Otherwise, since I think nothing of driving ninety minutes to get across town, going four hours is not that big a deal.
Myoo, I think you win for poster that looks most exactly like a real AVfM poster.
Nat, your sister sounds awesome and just like me at that age (except boys like her).
If it weren’t for a 30 year time gap I think Little Fantastic and Little Cassandra would have been buddies.
Shaenon, nicely done! What really got me about the JudgyBitch post was the ‘Let him be different’ part. “Some little boys quite naturally behave like little girls and that is perfectly okay.” Why not just say let kids be who they are, and stop forcing them into pre-defined gender roles altogether? It’s like she almost kinda sorta gets it, but doesn’t. Left to their own devices, kids like all sorts of stuff. Not all little girls like to sit quietly and have tea parties with their stuffed animals – or maybe they do, but they also like romping around in the creek, digging up bugs, mutilating barbie dolls* and playing video games. I mean, if she gets that not all boys are the same, how is it such a huge leap to get that not all girls are the same… not all people are the same… people shouldn’t be forced into certain socally acceptable, predetermined roles just because of their physical gender, etc etc. How can she get one thing, and be so blind to the rest?
*no barbie doll was safe in my house. ever.
http://i50.tinypic.com/2prwyo6.jpg
Because stupid, booty, and photoshop filters create greatness.
yea Shaenon! I wish someone had shown *me* the fanfiction sooner!
I think that chair needs a princess cupcake hiding in the open gap, waiting to bite the unpadded man-booty with her scary teeth. It can be a symbol for how modern marriage works (in the minds of deranged sexists).
There are several man-bootys I would totally nom, given the opportunity. The MRAs were right!!!
I hope this works. This is my first time using imgur.
Oops, it didn’t. I’ll try again. *Crosses fingers*
men’s rights poster
I think it’s also a symbol of how kinky marriage works.
*distracted*
Okay, my last try and sorry for too many posts in a row. If this doesn’t work, I’ll stop I promise.
http://thebionicmommy.imgur.com/all/
http://i.imgur.com/mC9WZ.png
I think I figured out the problem. I hadn’t put it in a gallery or verified my email.
http://i.imgur.com/48PMf.png