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!
Einhornglitzernkrieg was actually taken by a death metal band at the time of the original Dworks Crusade, so they had to go with kampf instead.*
And Bagelsan, that was brilliant. The cupcake’s expression really ties the whole image together.
*Note: Not really.
Seriously, why is there a unicorn? Or is it some inside joke again?
Well, I’ve certainly seen the light, thanks to the brave artists of AVfM! None of you feminist cupcake princesses are going to get your hooks into ME now! Never! Thank you AVfM for showing the me The Troof About Feminism! Box-cutters and cupcakes, all of you!
Take that you feminists!
/douchecanoe
*we now return you to your regularly scheduled mockery*
Also this, in case anybody missed it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/the-war-on-men–straw-feminism-101/2012/11/26/0ae5c158-37da-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_blog.html
the mouse one isn’t even original in its incoherent crazy: http://www.pigazette.com/Pig%20images/AntiSuffrage.jpg
I’m guessing “Free recipes for Life” is a reference to spermjacking. That’s gotta be it.
I read too much stuff about the forced birthers, clearly. I assumed the capital L on “life” there had to be some sort of anti-abortion reference.
And even with that, the poster still does not make a damn bit of sense.
I think this is too much like my original poster but I like the image juxtaposed with the AVfM headline:
http://i.imgur.com/PPCWs.jpg
But with this one, I feel like I have successfully made a parody that is sillier than any poster they have yet to create. TOP THIS ONE, MRA POSTER BOYS!
http://i.imgur.com/vGX6T.jpg
(Seriously, they can’t do worst than that, can they? That would be unpossible!)
Cloudiah: That one is hard to compete with, but I’m sure they’ll manage.
Yes, I shouldn’t misunderestimate them.
@Freitag
Suzanne Venker is apparently Phyllis Schlafly’s niece. Hey, her aunt made a CAREER of telling women that they are terrible people for having CAREERS, so why not? But seriously, way to regurgitate the same bullshit your aunt peddled thirty fucking years ago. It’s just the same record, over and over again. Skip, skip, skip…
@blitzgal, yes. I read that in the original piece on Faux, and had to LOL at it. Nice that she’s gotten out of the kitchen long enough to write three books, eh? How many did auntie write, I wonder idly? For women who hate career women, they seem to have made careers out of hating career women.
Ow, I think I just broke my brain.
Oh, for anybody reading the WaPo rebuttal, read the comments. They are…fascinating.
You know how sometimes something is so ugly that you love it?
Well.
http://i.imgur.com/JZdPT.jpg?1
By the SACRED MEATBALL what the fuck did they do to that art, Tulgey?
I’m wondering IF FREE RECIPES FOR LIFE is like FREE UPDATES – there are UPDATES which are FREE and will give you a RECIPE FOR A GOOD LIFE.
Suzanne Venker also had a role in creating a manboobz post!
This article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/home-front/295445/ryan-gosling-s-thankless-save/suzanne-venker
Led to this post by way of r/mensrights:
http://manboobz.com/2012/04/06/hey-girl-i-wish-you-were-a-greasy-smear-on-the-road-the-mens-rights-subreddit-hates-on-the-lady-rescued-by-ryan-gosling/
By way of Credible Journalist Suzanne Venker leaving out the part where Laurie Penny said she thanked Ryan Gosling. I’m sure it was just a mistake, though: Venker was probably just rushing in order to get her agenda out.
I think the poster is saying “tribble capricorn lettuce.”
Incidentally, here’s a real surrealist artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun
Falconer: that was mine. Even MRAs are unwilling to do as much violence to aesthetics as I am.
Tulgey, you did that last one, right?
Seriously, I have no idea.
Ninja’d. Time for some breakfast.
@Tulgey Logger
Is that real or a pisstake? I ask because even in my sparkly dark tortured gratuitous emotional masturbation too many photoshop filters phase, I would have thought that was bad.
Damn, ninja’d too. I’m gonna have to install a nightingale floor.
Tulgey, that was gloriously, fractally bad. In a good way.
I think the title of this post has just been disproved!
I am glad. Anyone who could produce that as a ‘good’ poster with a straight face would have no hope for redemption.