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.”
Breaking news: not all countries have Planned Parenthood!
Kinetic accounting is clearly when you prepare a pivot table in Excel but you don’t pivot it. But it might pivot… at any time…
The energy savings there alone would help expand the budget for the creation of more forms.
Perhaps instead of necroing a two year old thread to tell us all how horrible we are, you could have gone to the current where transmisogyny is being discussed and presented us with an action we can take to convince PP to become more inclusive. Because I actually do think it would be better if PP was providing HRT to trans women. But coming onto the comments section of a blog and insulting the blogger and the regulars is not doing jack shit for your cause.
Valerie: you need to go down the hall two doors on the right and make sure you bring form 1325B Wrong Venue.
This isn’t the place, sorry you’re so in love with your word salad that you can’t read.
@WWTH
You have the patience of a saint, and the puzzle solving abilities of Robert Langdon.
4chanWe Hunted The Mammoth is not your personal army. You are we are so many people yourself who are not political props but do demand public apologies for two year old corrected mistakes, so maybe just handle that issue yourself?As in, go… sign a thing or something. Maybe make a coherent statement as to your actual belief and policy or thoughts? You launched with some incomprehensible gibberish about two year old things that have long since been corrected, and you are no closer to explaining your actual position. It’s a position I can infer, and a position that’s ludicrously idiotic in its inane appeal at making everyone your little slave, but at least if you go out and state your actual opinion we can actually know what it actually is.
It’s os confusing. up is down is left is right is what the arrrrrgggg
oh jesus am I back on the acid again? this is the worst trip I’ve ever had!
Kinect accounting failed in the marketplace. It didn’t couple well with the Xbox.
Goddamn, it only took 130 mocking comments before it occurred to someone, “Hey, maybe this angry trans woman has a point and I should be an ally…” Considered progress.
@weirwoodtreehugger
It’s also worth noting the blogger in question has tolerated Adrienne Rich supporters on his blog for a long time… and anyone who knows anything about the Transsexual Empire will know instantly where the problem, where the apologia lies.
If that’s what you wanted, you can go away now. Validation unlocked!
Goddamn, it only took 130 mocking comments before it occurred to the incomprehensible troll that maybe she should try to communicate her point so that people can understand it… Nah, clearly it hasn’t happened yet.
Have you considered that if it took many different people and 130 comments to work out what the fuck you were on about, maybe the problem might be you?
Woohoo, a coherent statement, with punctuation! Considered progress.
@Unimaginative
Apparently not wanting people to die because they’re denied, and policed away from, transition is something you should feel safe referring to as a pet project. That’s not transmisogynistic at all.
Bwahahahaha.
no way chica. You ain’t got a point, what you got is a lack of point
that you strut in to wave about
when you scream and shout
and demand in all caps
with your out-dated trans-asterik-slaps
that we ascede to your something something
but the wrong thing, some thing
might be that your pointed point of opinion
is ARGHLEBARHGLEHAHRHRHAHA
AHAHA
CAPS LOCK SCREAM RAGE
VOMIT ORGANS AND BLOOD
I decide if I’m an ally or not. That’s what allies are. People who believe in your cause.
But, as Leslie Fish said:
I disbelieve you! I disbelieve you! I disbelieve you!
OMG, it was all about poetry, after all… *mind blown*
So, @Fibinaci, what you’re saying is that your support of my rights is dependent upon my acquiescence… those are no rights at all.
http://youtu.be/azkFz1ZbXyU
So, just to be clear, walking in and saying “this is the issue that I need help with” wasn’t an option?
No. That is upside down and backwards.
I love Leslie Fish. She did great stuff with Mercedes Lackey.
No, clearly the correct option is incomprehensible screeching on a two year old thread. Doesn’t everyone do that when they have an issue?
Yeah, your acquiescence to my tremendous demands for… you actually telling me what you expect me to support.
I’m a tough sell, what can I say. A wily old fox. The list of my demands is as long as the waiting line for XB7, which is to say, wholly imaginary and therefore only existent as a mutual exercise in amusing futility.
(This might infer a little on you, if you like being oblique)
——–
This reminds me of a seriously bad habit I had once. I was bad at asking people if I could join them. So I’d come up with these huge convuluted plans for coming along to things. Like, if I grab this snorkel and go to that place at this time I can swim through this lake and collide with that boat and then in the ensuing mayhem I can ask that person for a cart to take me to a mule so I can pet the mule so I’ll have an opening to ask if someone wants to take the mule to the zoo where I wanted to go all along.
It turns out just going: “Yo, anyone wants to go to the zoo” is a lot easier.
——–
plus, it kept thinking your windows were spreadsheets and whenever my cat strolled across the room it assumed my company was experiencing a hostile merger.
That last part was pretty spot on.
Wow. I had actually typed “pet project”, and then changed it to “campaign” because I thought, well, it was a little insensitive. Is she psychic? Is she overwhelmed by all the jabber of billions of people’s thoughts intruding on her brain, and that why she doesn’t make any sense?