When confronted with the simple fact that men hold the overwhelming majority of positions of power in the world – in government, business, culture, and pretty much everything else – MRAs like to pretend that the actual gender of those in power makes no difference because, well, the men in power are probably a bunch of manginas doing the dirty work of the women who really run the world. Or something like that.
Indeed, some MRAs have even managed to convince themselves that the very basic historical and sociological fact that men in power, by and large, tend to represent men’s interests more than women’s interests is some sort of locical fallacy – something that they’ve labeled “The Frontman Fallacy.”
Now A Voice for Men contributor and YouTube videoblogger TyphonBlue has done these guys one better in terms of sheer antifeminist loopiness. In the comments on one of the Warren Farrell protest videos I recently wrote about, she argues that men in power don’t really push male interests because … they probably don’t even think of themselves as men.
Here she is, writing under her other nom-de-net Genderratic:
I don’t even know what to say to this. I mean, WHAT?!
PROTIP: You’re not going to convince anyone you’re a great ally of trans* people if you refer to them as “it.”
Actually, the bewilderness will already have eaten me a month from last Saturday.
Are aliens the reason that Valerie is so caps lockingly upset that a blog dedicated to mocking misogyny is mocking misogyny?
I initially read that as “there are pictures of Labradors in caves”, which does tend to support the brain cells giving up in despair idea.
Valerie, that would be a mistake, which you no doubt already know. I have no idea why you think David and the commenters here are responsible to be your water carriers. Nor why you chose to necro a two year old thread the get high on umbrage. From my point of view you walk and talk like a troll.
I would lunch with you, not of you. Promise.
This.
Actually if the shark stomach acids are kicking in that would explain the headache.
That’s what the last shark cat said…
That sounds painful. you might want to keep your organs inside your meat suit. If your vessel contracts an explosive organ vomiting virus of some kind, we’ll need more forms for the biological ickery division and they’re really peculiar about what kind of lines you sign and what precisely “viral samples” entails.
Also as per the regulations and bylaws of our esteemed meta commitee on commitee commitees it behoves me to point out that projectile vomiting your own organs is only allowable every fort night under the full moon in our terrible dread rituals to banish the tax returns to the realm of Quag’Naggoroth and maybe get some decent coffee down in Potential Accounting.
@thebewilderness oh good. Cuz cartoon kitties would not be tasty.
Never eat organs for lunch. It is a mistake I promise.
For decent coffee, I would potentially become an accountant.
Why yes, we are hilarious. Thanks for noticing 🙂
*could, dammit.
@ Puddleglum – That is wrong and bad and you know it!
Potential Accounting is a great job. You never know if you’re going to be doing accounting, or if you’ll be dragged into some high concept interdisciplinary study of kinetics.
That’s easy though; just keep asking how much it’s going to cost. Do spreadsheets (pivot tables! All the pivot tables!) on the budget and possible expenditures. Where’s the income coming from? Did you get receipts?
Or some arcane combination of both! E=MC squared times the depreciable cost of estimated annuities!
(Yeah, I had to google accounting terms for that. Is it appropriately incomprehensible?)
@grumpyoldnurse, well, my avatar does say ‘evil’.
Quite right, Puddleglum! My bad! Please carry on!
@unimaginative, so long as you have up-to-date charts on what the current rate of depreciation is, that would be acceptable.
Utterly baffling, Unimaginative!
@hellkell
“OK, I gotta ask: why the fuck would you come to a blog that’s purpose is to mock misogyny to demand that we hassle PP on your behalf? What failure to read a room is this?”
Because I’m a… woman? Because when I heard, “my body, my choice!” I kinda thought it meant everybody?
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It would have quicker and easier for Valerie to just post this
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/55852829.jpg
You’re a… woman? And therefore, people who hang out on a blog that mocks misogyny should drop everything and support the campaign that’s closest and dearest to your heart, even though you can’t quite explain what it is without a lot of guessing on our part?
(By the way, if you could come out and state, “I think Planned Parenthood should provide transition meds for trans people, and I think all feminists should support me in this,” we’d at least know what the fuck you’re carrying on about.)
@WWTH, I want feel bad cuz I had the same thought.