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.”
It’s amazing how quickly this conversation went all purple monkey dishwasher. I guess that’s what happens when you forget to remember that you need to request the forms later.
Fill out form XD3 (Nefarious Deeds Clearance Request) and we can discuss Nefarious Deeds with you.
Do not spindle, fold, or mutilate form XD3. Do not taunt form XD3.
@ Unimaginative – I’ve also received messages sent to me in sacred fumes. However: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZN_8M4OpMo
Ooh, does anyone remember those three wheeled cars from the 70s? Spoilers – a tripod was not in fact more stable,
I’m so glad someone could mock a trans woman with a multiple personalities joke. It really does just keep getting better and better. You’re better than the TERFs when it comes to transmisogynistic language. Go on, give yourselves a hand!
Oooh! Thanks, hellkell! (at least, I assume it was you who emailed it to me yesterday)
YAY, US!
Purple monkey confused dishwasher, with a broken rinse cycle.
I’d chew you out, but after spending five minutes shouting tense conjugations at the mirror I’m no closer to sorting out how to express my chagrin over your soon to be will have been a problem because it is currently going to have been being a issue problem for today-morrow and our have beens are all really to be potential
Has anyone seen the Any Excuse For Outrage Form? I think it may have been replaced by the Don’t Sprain Anything Doing That Reach Template but I’m not sure.
@vaiyt
“I like how valeriekeefe just makes references to “his agenda” like we’re all supposed to agree without even saying which agenda it is.
The sentence structure is also really confusing and I don’t know if they’re supposed to be a trans woman or an ally. In the latter case, I’m sure you all can appreciate the irony of someone who’s not a trans person presuming to speak for them while complaining that someone else is talking over them.”
Wow… okay, One: What about my photo would make you doubt what my pronouns were?
Two: Gosh, if in a call-out of talking over trans women it’d be incredibly tonedeaf and ironic if I were a cis woman… maybe you could at least lean towards the possibility that I’m a trans woman? Maybe?! Cuz I am.
Do I need to detail some sexual assaults before you will stop mocking my concerns? Where does the disgusting threshold lie before affinity fraud gives way to stated principles?
These are the tripod cars, btw. I remember them, because I am an olds.
http://www.myperfectautomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/china-ev-3-Wheel-Electric-Car-FL5000W-ZK-1-.jpg
Purple monkey dishwasher’s acting up again. Froth errywhere.
@cassandrakitty
42, by the way, is also the number of states in which Planned Parenthood will not provide HRT to trans people under any treatment regime.
Cisfeminism* is arguing that the same movement that used to fund outlaw abortion clinics can’t call on Planned Parenthood to have informed-consent HRT.
*As opposed to feminism
Cassandra: I’m an olds too and don’t remember those. Was it not in the U.S.?
Wait, are we not doing Vogon poetry any more
It’s cool, Fibinachi! I’ll have gotten a very strongly worded reprimand from the FHC sometime last Tuesday. At least, now, I finally know why they will have revoked my clearance for operation Nefarious Deeds (TM) and why I got the request returned this morning with “You Stink” scrawled in lavender ink across the bottom.
Better go fill out form XD3 (Nefarious Deeds Clearance Request) so I can get rejected this morning!
@ hellkell
I only remember seeing them in the UK, now that you mention it. Apparently Americans were a bit more quick to catch on to the whole not actually more stable thing.
Grumpyoldnurse, don’t bother, you’ve been pre-rejected as of next Monday.
“Wait, are we not doing Vogon poetry any more”
Yes, trans women say things incoherent and yet somehow mundane to your ear… Bravo.
… this is especially funny because LBT is like, right up this thread as well.
No FunTimeWriting on that one. It’s just… did you strain a muscle reaching for that little bit of potential-insult that you could leverage into an attempt at making people here seem bad?
You’ll need to acquire an Any Excuse For Outrage Form, which is by sheer coincidence right now in a bunker twenty miles under the sea as part of the ongoing efforts of Operation YELLOWSUBMARINE.
Owing to a time-related problem with out XB7 forms, you’ll want to look for the blue submarine. The yellow one is where we store the cryogenically frozen brown rice from the Han Dynasty.
It’s taken Americans a decade to come around to hybrid cars, tripod cars were never gonna happen here.
The best thing about tripod cars was watching them try to make sharp turns. They tilted, like catamarans.
@ hellkell – and that’s why I keep losing all my Misandry Points!
::reaches for another chocolate chip cookie::
I bet they tilted. I would be scared shitless to drive one.