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!
The Steele Bad Writing Challenge
Find the longest possible consecutive string of words that doesn’t contain any nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.
Confession: I AM ELLA. DAVID SENT ME TO ENSNARE BUTTHORN.
I had to go to the doctor last week for an ensnared butthorn.
XD
So Ella dumped Torvus Butthorn,
and treated his writing with scorn.
He said with a cry
“I don’t understand why!”
Poor Steeley, now you’re all forlorn.
Is that so, Anti-Anti-Manboobz? Go back to your asinine libelous hatesite.
Yep…, it’s still bright and shiny.
Hellkell, I am aware that libel is written defamation (I was recently corrected, in fact and I admit, by Boobzers – I believed the term to be slander, which I now know refers to spoken defamation), and Anti-Anti-Manboobz, aka “katz” has spread falsehoods both implicit and explicit. Certainly, he or she is not alone in this respect – which is why you are all, to a one, vile bigots.
Nope.
First, Times v Sullivan would apply in this regard (even if it were, prima facie libelous; which I don’t think it is) because you injected yourself into a public space to discuss the issues.
So it’s pretty much not libel.
But, even if it were, libelling you wouldn’t make us bigots, it would make us big nasty meanies.
Moonz, you run a website devoted to denialism, specifically, misandry denialism; I do not know why in God’s Green Earth you think we would get along.
Where is my clue by four? whataboutthemoonz doesn’t think you get along, they miss being absent for the whacking of the piñata.
I get my point across and hit submit.
No, you don’t.
Oh, and Steeley? Reality check: Ella is not your girlfriend. She’s your EX-girlfriend.
Ooh, my OED Word of the Day is reminding me of Steelepole!
merry-andrew: A person who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; a clown; a mountebank’s assistant.
We may be jester’s fools, but Steele is a merry-andrew’s mountebank’s assistant.
Varpole: You know, previously, the feminists were primarily an abstract concept – a bad one, but more of a nefarious Blofeld-style villain, “behind the scenes” as it were. But now? Well, now, feminist dogma has affected my life personally – my girlfriend, Ella was driven away partially due to feminist ideology and society-wide indoctrination, which led her to sneer at a human rights movement for men. It’s shocking, the misandry that has been instilled in our culture. Feminists are evil, and that is simply all there is to it.
I thought the breakup wasn’t really about your views on women.
It seems you misrepresented that, just a tad.
What else have you been shading the truth on?
katz: I had an excess of lint in my belly butthorn once. It had to be irrigated.
Varpole: It’s not reneged, it’s recanted.
Jeez… This is English, your mother tongue, and you don’t have any more respect for it than you do for us.
That’s sad dude.
For Steele’s benefit: I did not, in fact, go to the doctor for an ensnared butthorn. There is no such thing.
Hey, I used powerpoint!
http://i.imgur.com/jCjET.png
Steelebutte is positively obsessed with the whole “paying for dinner” discussion that happened here, like, once.
In honor of Steele:
http://i50.tinypic.com/33m5tdv.gif
http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg595/capnben1/evilwomen.jpg
Y’know, it’s probably soft of me, but I feel a bit sorry for Steele. Not only does his involvement in the MRM repeatedly, spectacularly and humiliatingly fail to win him any friends, it’s also started to lose him some of the ones he already had. And I feel particularly bad that he’s just not self aware enough to figure out what the problem is here.
This isn’t a poster, but it is The Axe of the Apostles.
No, it has nothing to do with anything. I just couldn’t sleep.
When I got my IUD it was done under general anaesthetic which was covered by Medicare. All I had to pay for was the IUD itself (about $20 I think). I looked at tubal ligation but you still get periods with that, so IUD FTW.
Vasectomies are completely covered by Medicare. Tubal ligations aren’t. Not sure why. More expensive admittedly.
I heard that too, that they don’t like to give IUDs to women who haven’t had kids already. Partly it’s that they have a greater chance to come out accidentaly. But when I went to get mine done, no one batted an eye, or questioned my motivation at all.
I have no idea how the US still has the broken medical system you have. It’s beyond ridiculous.
http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg595/capnben1/ladiesroom.jpg
Last one. These are too much fun; I’m startig to get addicted.
So, Steele has been expounding to us, at length, on how men are superior and need to be treated by society in a special way giving them more power. (that’s not what he thinks he was saying, but it is)
And he assured us his gal-pal was totally okay with that.
Then he’s shocked and dismayed to find out that she’s not–and she finds a movement to further advance the interests of those perched on top of the food chain a little scary, his oration overpowering, and she checked out.
I have to say… my estimation of Ella’s character has been, from the beginning, a bit … well. I mean, if he talks in real life anything like he talks here, then the only people who should hang out with him are aspiring super-villains, really.
So I’m just saying I now have a healthy dollop of respect for a lady I was pretty sure was either fictional or Lex Luthors eviler twin sister.
Perhaps “underwhelming” rather than “overpowering”? 😉
Or just “too tedious and pompous to endure any longer”?
All of this assumes that Ella is a real person who was really dating Steele. Given the interesting ways that his story is evolving I find that rather unlikely.
(Not that I want to discourage him – the Tale of the Girlfriend Brainwashed by Feminism is becoming quite entertaining.)
You really have to examine your life choices when your imaginary friends start to leave you over them.
Aww, I missed Steele?
His pretentious prattlings are hilarious, I would liked to have encourged more. 🙁
Damn you, early-morning classes! *shakes fist at Heavens*