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.”
Apparently there are several national styles of pouring absinthe.
There has been a dearth of quality trolls this year.
Am I the only one who interpreted that last post to mean “If you were like me, and had your ass kissed all day”?
I have absolutely no clue what on earth you are talking about. I also don’t care.
Does modern absinthe even have wormwood in it any more?
And she’s back to incomprehensible babble.
They seem to also assume everything is about them.
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Some absinthe does, but it depends on who makes it.
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I guess if we go by the evidence of most trolls, this site is the Nexus of Feminist High Command, so any movements from here will automatically flow out and eventually change the world?
The strategy makes sense, through that perspective.
About as much sense as hypothethical accounts and causality defying forms anyhow.
Also, I don’t know if it’s my place to say this?
But I do sort of want to comment on:
@valeriekeefe
Fuck you. Where the hell do you get off coming into a random space, shouting and raising a fuss, and when engaged (after, as you noticed, 130 comments that mocked you and more that still do) somehow dictating when other people abandoned fights or not? Fuck you. Step on a four sided dice. Not even one fucking word of: “34 years ago? The good fight? Thank you”. Not even a “And I appreciate it, but there’s so much still to do”. Straight to “You’re not good enough, you abandoned me, you’re bad bad bad”?
fuck you. The battle scars other people have aren’t fucking insignia they wear so you can judge them worthy or not worthy, you prancing little parasite of joy. No one came in here and asked you to dictate who was acceptable, or not acceptable, and pretending you have that right by some god given virtue is the sickest usurpation of attention I have quite seen. If you want to talk about privilege, how about the kind of massive blinkered blind spot that allows you to dismiss out of hand the struggles and battles of other people, their sacrifices and work, and declare it “Oh, just not enough, bleed some more for me!”? Fuck you. And not only that, but oh no, in your bravery and compassion you’ve sheltered all those poor battered others who just didn’t have your strength and stamina to fight the good fight, and you’re going to magnamoniously bring it up a little bit?
fuck you.
Not even trying to be funny now, that’s just sick and wrong and if anyone here should be apologizing for any damn thing it should be you.
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Valerie is the best troll we’ve had since Mikey who I think was here at the beginning of this year. We got a great new catch phrase in “spell checking Mein Kampf.” That’s all we can ask of trolls really.
This absinthe on sale over here has wormwood: http://www.topshelfliquor.co.nz/estore/style/7640105020638.aspx#.VHLL5ck0854
OK, I’m guessing pallygirl is confused right now rather than ashamed. I’m basing my guess on the fact that what you said doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Granted, I got fired from my Nazi copy editing gig, so I may just not be smart enough to understand Keefe’s agitated truth bombs and outrage strafing.
*Holds up lighter for Fibinachi*
When I write my memoirs they will be titled Spell Checking Mein Kampf: A Tale of Misandry and Cats.
Not confused, sadly sober, but hopefully more capable of doing something with the bottle of absinthe that I bought about two years ago.
There’s a local distillery where I live that makes it with wormwood. It’s good, but not particularly hallucinogenic. But then, I also have no reaction to flying ointments, so that might be me.
Ooh, and the reason for the sugar/water drip – lots of low quality absinthe was very harsh, so you had to add sugar, and the water drip brings out different aromas.
The more you know.
Pallygirl is desperately clinging to the promise of boozy oblivion, as are all of us, really.
+1s to Fibinachi!
@weirwoodtreehugger
“When I write my memoirs they will be titled Spell Checking Mein Kampf: A Tale of Misandry and Cats.”
It’s so adorable that you get to minimize the mortality effects of the delisting of transition medicine in the US and the moral implications of tolerating same when it was a cisfeminist (one word) project.
I would spell Czech: Mein Kampf, but that wouldn’t appease the troll.