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.”
Wow, that was one bad acid trip.
Oh, wait, it’s just another troll?
Hmm, 34 years ago I was just out of high school and just falling in love with Mr K, something much more interesting than anything screechy bullshit troll has to say.
The only creamy drink I do is coffee, and right now I’d settle for that, as long as I can put some vodka in it.
I’ve got nothing. That was both brilliantly timed and perfect.
Reading that caused me to vomit up my organs with laughter.
@Catherine: Flailing. From the troll, here:
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2012/12/09/femra-typhonblue-maybe-the-men-who-seem-to-run-the-world-arent-really-men/comment-page-5/#comment-648552
Make sure you catch them, so that you can put them in a time machine and send them back to be ready for yourself to be born, again, in the past.
Shit, my brain really is broken, isn’t it?
I don’t even know how to respond to Valerie anymore. Except for reaction gifs that signify that I’m officially too old for this shit.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–bjOEBVZY–/wggkxowgeg2ujkmlnop4.gif
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-10/29/20/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-32087-1414629488-2.gif
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-10/29/21/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-32762-1414631891-17.gif
34 years ago I was 13, and the second-nerdiest girl in school, and crushing on the cutest little blond guy, AND trying to overcome the psychological impact of a nasty rejection from the year before. Ah, memories.
Also, if you want to tell Planned Parenthood to be more trans-inclusive, wouldn’t the most logical place to take up that battle be on THEIR website, and not this ancient thread?
Ah, but where was Maggie Smith 34 years ago? Was she remonstrating with Robin Morgan? No, she was probably not.
(Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? Would it be about that time?)
Sheesh, and to think *we* were accused of tumblr feminism just the other day. Or earlier today. I forget.
I’ve inspected the elderly Baileys. I’m scared to open it. Cthulhu might be able to use it as a portal to our universe.
I do have an empty bottle of vodka a managed to squeeze an ounce out of earlier. Shall I wave it in your general direction?
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and also Clash of the Titans.
I have absinthe. I also have sugar cubes. Both are unopened, in the pantry, as I do not own an absinthe spoon. 🙁
@ thebewilderness
“Yanno, maybe they are drunk.”
You know my pronouns use them. She. “Maybe she is drunk.”
See, I should have been arguing with Robin Morgan when I was watching Clash of the Titans, I’m sure she would have been fascinated by my input.
(Which would mostly have been “more owl”)
@pallygirl, that is what forks are for.
Theoretical question – could one just put the cubes in a glass and pour the absinthe over?
My pronouns don’t use anything. Help, the pronouns are becoming self-aware.
One is, apparently, supposed to pour water over the sugar cube and into the absinthe until it reaches some measure of cloudiness. I need videos.
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What is happen? My infant self was a horrible person? I spell-checked Mein Kampf? That wasn’t on Project Gutenberg!
Tequila please…
I think absinthe + this thread = one hell of a bad trip
@pallygirl, seriously, you should be ashamed. If someone had kissed your ass the whole damn way and swallowed every last drop of you and your your friends’ femmephobia dressed up as politics, you’d have a lot more respect for her identity than this, which indicates it’s not really respect, now is it?
Maybe they are an authoritarian who thinks they are entitled to instruct people on what words they are permitted to use.
If we’re going to have oppression olympics, then I think it’s only fair to decide the events ahead of time so every competitor is on a level playing field. Unless it’s the slippery slope argument, which will be boring and inaccurate if it doesn’t have a slope.
I think it has to do with the way it will mix, but it’s probably just for looks these days.
We do appear to be approach Antz and sexbots/split the country along the Mississippi levels of trippiness.
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