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.”
At least I still have my towel.
I *do* remember those cars, but only because I saw them on the tv in “Check out THIS weirdness”-type spots.
@valeriekeefe, speaking only for myself, I’m mocking your writing. It’s incomprehensible. You seem to have taken offence at something David wrote two years ago, and necro’d an old thread in order to indulge in some abstract poetry. I don’t really care for your style, I like poetry to be more narrative, but whatever floats your boat, I guess. To each, his or her art.
So glad my parents never bought one of those things. They may have been drunk, on account of it being the 70s, but at least they weren’t that high.
grumpyoldnurse: to keep your Misandry points all in one place, please use form 1070G. It will track them for you after you spend seven hours last month setting it up.
…. well at least you admit it? Did you launch into the incomphrensible jibberwocky above in an attempt at actually making us read it and thinking it mundane? Is this a performance art piece on the subjectivity of human experience in relation to the transfer of information encoded in symbolic sentences?
deep
I’m going to need a Philosophy and Metaphysics Form so I can fill it out and apply to the Greater University of ArgleBargle.
I don’t think Bravo does poetry, don’t they mostly do home improvement shows and children being tortured by their horrible stage parents?
Reality tv with bad poetry should be a thing. If I have to suffer it, so does everyone else.
@ hellkell – Oh, Bother!!! I’ve been using form 1070G-a since I started collecting my Misandry Points next April!!!!
I told you guys – I suck at paper work!
@ Fibinachi – Oooh! That form I know! You want Z17-9b! I sent it to you last Thursday!
Bravo started off doing fairly artsy things. I remember there being a bunch of smugness over their Canadian refusal to stoop to the lowest common American denominator just for ratings. But in the end, ratings is all.
I have it! The perfect show! Kitchen Nightmares with slam poetry over in the corner by the grill from 6 to 8 every night, performed by a pageant child in a tutu.
@ cassandrakitty – throw in some explosions and a mystery guest and I think you’ve got a winner!
Nope, you also need an unmarried teen mother, or teenage bride, to host.
Being a little bit drunk is not making Valerie’s posts anymore palatable. I am pleased to say that I am literally eating popcorn right now. After filling out form x5213gh I even got it certified as evil feminist corn. So I was well prepared for this thread but am still confused by it.
Real Housewives: Now in Iambic Pentameter!
Also the child can drive around in a miniature tripod car, because why the hell not.
Real House Wifes Of Dysfunctional Resturant Owners And Their Adopted Teenage Mothers?
Also a random celebrity debating some science-related topic with an expert and casting aspersions at the expert’s blind adherence to tradition.
@WWTH, I’m not even a little bit drunk and I can’t parse it. I shall rectify that (the alcohol part, for the rest I need an interpreter).
Also, ancient assanauts.
The universe is kind; someone just handed me popcorn IRL.
Ha! My computer recognizes “assanauts” as a real word. BWAhahahaha!
And also their furniture. It’s not a proper reality show unless someone is judging your taste and finding it questionable.
Ancient assanaut poetry. Glyphs optional.
Assanauts? They put on space suits and little helmets and bravely go where no man has gone before?
Well, it is Bravo.