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.”
We can support Trans rights and not take you seriously, we’re good like that.
Thirty four years ago I was 34 and fighting the good fight. I have the battle scars to prove it.
That’s not good. That’s tokenizing.
34 years ago today I was 6 months old. I apologize that I was too busy selfishly crying, shitting in my diapers, and learning to crawl to be a social justice activist.
Thirty four years ago I was ten, and obviously falling down on the job.
We have the best coffee in Potential Accounting.
What did you think all those deductions on your paycheck were for?
Is it oppression olympics time again? Can’t we agree to only have that every 4 years?
Hahahah. Hahah.
HAhahahahah. Oh my god. Hahahah. That is the funniest…
“You’re like the PEOPLE who SPELL CHECKED MEIN KAMPF” is now going to be my new favorite insult. That is a golden phrase that I just love, because it insults me more than it insults anyone else.
Yes. Yes, let’s make moral judgement on the people spell-checking the magnum opus of their friend in a climate where the arguments raised in said book where not considered all that odd, and further, let’s hold them accountable for the actions of people who read said book and decided to murder millions.
If they hadn’t corrected that atrocious grammar, we’d have avoided all this! It’s their damn fault! Typography kills!
Also no one owes you shit. You’re drunk on nominal power differentials! You’re high on assumptions of systemic organization of power flows! You’ve dwelved too deep into scholarly analysis of relations between people! You’ve come upon the river flowing with ideas and models and tried to splash the buckets of epistemology over reality, and it don’t work that way at all.
Do you even know what privilege is?? Do you know what unearned privilege is? Do you know what the words you are using mean, and the context, and the set up, and the thoughts behind them, or are you just parroting phrases in an attempt to invoke shame in others because you, for some reason, have learned that particular magic trick?
@thebewilderness
Then you should be intimately aware of the fuckery Janice Raymond got away with and Steinem and Morgan replicated, in addition to the occasional and laudible action of the womyn of Olivia Records and elsewhere, but the ultimate reality is you abandoned this fight. You left us to the wolves. And I, and other trans womyn, had to hurt because of it. Because we took you out of the way of their knives.
And it’s time to fix this.
@fininachi
There is definitely a reek of cargo cult about it all.
How come women is now being spelt womyn when it wasn’t in earlier comments?
Happy half birthday, btw, wwth. Perhaps someone will share their cake with you.
(I have no cake but, um, coconut and chocolate covered almonds?)
The troll is sloppy?
It’s part of the magic incantation of course!
Eff off! I pick my fights. You do not.
You know where I was when I spell checked Mein Kampf? DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH!
34 years ago I was 5 year away from being born.
And 6 years after I was born I lived in a war-torn nightmare land.
In that war I lost family members to a actual (Hague defined and all) genocide.
So you know what?
I cordially ask that you learn that “genocide = genocide”. And “genocide =/= anything else that it’s not genocide”.
If you can’t or won’t learn that?
Then I, also cordially, ask you to go step on a Lego.
They fired me from my job spellchecking Mein Kampf on account of my German sucked.
@thebewilderness, sorry, you’re not allowed to pick what’s important to fight for, apparently.
That ancient Baileys is really beginning to look tasty right now.
I support women’s rights and don’t take GirlWritesWha seriously either. I’m just not a fan of pedantic Canadian FeMRAs or their wordy blather.
Thanks Cassandrakitty! It was actually my half birthday yesterday although I just realized that now.
You too?
I meant the reason I got booted off the spell-checking Mein Kampf project.
I may have also filled out the wrong form.
Getting drunk on the job probably didn’t help either. Speaking of which, elderly Baileys, please?
Elderly Baileys, isn’t that cream sherry?
/ducks and runs
Wow, thread moved.
There are “PEOPLE who SPELL CHECKED MEIN KAMPF” now too. 0_o
Is that supposed to be a feminazi “joke” or just a part of the general wild flailing?