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.”
“Spell-Checking Mein Kampf: My Misadventures In Manifestos, MRA’s and Misogyny”
The sequel is
“Applied Neurology: How To Scrape Out Memories With A Spoon”
Glass of wine, do your work,
Rid my mem’ries of this jerk!
All this talk reminded me of a bottle of absinthe I had bought ages ago. I just checked; it’s still there. OMG, 60% proof? No wonder we’re supposed to dilute it.
I sent the dark lord a troll alert.
@Fibinaci
“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”
It’s your pretenses to intersectional feminism that dictated the rubric under which you would be judged.
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I don’t think this troll has staying power.
http://www.alandia.de/absinthe/images/product_images/popup_images/absinthe-jade-set-767.jpg
The Jade brand of absinthe has brought my much joy, albeit costly joy. I loves it so.
Authoritarian asshattery for fifty Alex.
Sez the troll that thinks oppression olympics = intersectionality.
Even my cat seems to be wondering what’s going on, she’s weaving in and out of my legs alternately purring and yowling.
I bet she didn’t try to talk Robin Morgan out of, um, something? Either.
(Still not sure what we’re supposed to be angry with her about tbh, only book of hers I remember is Demon Lover.)
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Feminists caused trans meds to be de-listed in the US, and now you want us to campaign for Planned Parenthood to provide them? Or is it that Planned Parenthood runs the FDA? Holy crap, we’re back to women secretly running Big Daddy Gummint! I’m sensing that the real cause to all these problems is… Ancient Aliens.
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Dammit.
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“I don’t think this troll has staying power.”
Gosh, I miss when I had the moral certainty to define troll as, “someone who disagrees with me.”
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Wait, wasn’t the reason trans meds were de-listed because trans is no longer considered a mental illness?
Honestly I feel like if I started signing “rubber ducky you’re the one, you make bathtime lots of fun” it would make about as much sense as the rest of this conversation.
(Except that I didn’t have a rubber ducky, I had a rubber shark.)
Maybe you don’t have any moral certainty because you’re an asshole.
We do disagreements hands down and walking away every day. Some days we disagree with our own selves. Trolling is not disagreeing and you have surely been on the intarwebs long enough to know that.
Rubber sharky, you’re the two! I like bathing, yes I do!
I can only speak for myself, but I don’t take cues for intersectional feminism from white pedantic libertarian FeMRAs. I don’t think it’s productive.