When you spend as much time as we do here at Man Boobz scrutinizing the Men’s Rights movement, it’s easy to forget what a fringe phenomenon it is. So here are some charts from Google Trends – charting the frequency of certain search terms from 2004 until today — that help to put it all in perspective. (Thanks to Katz, Cloudiah and Cthulhu’s Intern in the comments for inspiring this post.)
That “rapidly growing” Men’s Rights movement that MRAs like to talk about? It may actually be stagnant or even shrinking, if searches for “men’s rights” are any indication. Despite a recent comeback, they’re still less than half of what they were at their height in 2004.
Now let’s put that in perspective.
No, there’s nothing wrong with that graph; it’s just that My Little Pony is so much more popular than Men’s Rights that the latter simply vanishes into the X axis.
But this graph is my favorite:
Well, nothing will top that, but here’s a graph showing that people are a lot more concerned about misogyny than misandry — and, I would add, for good reason.
Let’s see what other trends we can find!
(Oh, and sorry about the low quality pics; WordPress won’t let me embed the charts.)
You don’t really understand how Google Trends works, do you?
HA HA HA HA HA. (cloudiah pauses to take a drink of water.) HA HA HA HA HA.
Men’s rights vs. Women’s rights vs. pick up artist vs. Neil Strauss* vs. visitation
(*author of the book, The Game)
PUA / Strauss comparable to interest in women’s rights.
Visitation trumps all. Funnily enough most blokes start theinking about men’s rights when they get divorced.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20women%27s%20rights%2C%20pick%20up%20artist%2C%20Neil%20Strauss%2C%20visitation&cmpt=q
Of course you can drive all the plots into the X axis by comparing with e.g. “fishing” or “iPod”
Guyz, they are hiding their searches from teh Google.
Ha! I compared the MRM with Louis XIII (though that’ll include uses of his name by other people, products etc) and look at the results … http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=%22Mens%20rights%20movement%22%2C%20%22Louis%20XIII%22&cmpt=q
MRM flatlining! 😀 😀 😀 😀
What part of “Misogyny. I mock it,” do you not understand?
@Joe
The word “visitation” is not exactly exclusive to your hate movement there, champ. The Google top ten are mostly churches and movies.
@kittehs
Lol.
A Voice for Men vs. a children’s TV show that is no longer on the air.
This right here is precious. You realize that no life event MAKES people into hateful assholes, right? That people actually have individual responsibility for their actions?
Also, has it ever occurred to you that men who are misogynists are more likely to have a divorce in the first place? Correlation and causality, how do they work?
That is because it is a very adorable drawing HellKell.
markjones, if the movement is growing, that would mean lots of new people would be curious about it. Wouldn’t that lead to a lot of general searches for “men’s rights” as they tried to learn about it and find sites they liked?
Less interest in Men’s Rights than ‘my vagina’.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20my%20vagina&cmpt=q
Significantly less than Deez Nuts.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20Deez%20Nuts&cmpt=q
No no no David, don’t you know that men just “take the red pill” completely on their own and this provides them with automatic knowledge of which websites to visit. Something about men’s logical brains, hunters not gathers, etc… Men: they don’t need no stinking Google!
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20women%27s%20rights%2C%20father%27s%20rights%2C%20paternity%20test%2C%20alimony&cmpt=q
men’s rights vs. Women’s rights vs. father’s rights vs. paternity test vs. alimony
Yep, as I say, blokes are searching on single-issue stuff, they come across the “manosphere” (ahahaha!!) that way.
And then, of course @Futrelle – they use this thing called “bookmark” which is a feature on your browser… So they don’t have to search for it again… I know! Amazing!!
@Cloudiah – Wait, are we meant to be surprised that something that was a kids TV show, at prime kid’s TV time on BBC1 (the best established channel in the whole UK) is more popular than an obscure website? Really?
Clearly the key to getting Men’s Rights into public consciousness is to make it into a cartoon and get it on telly.
Laxatives are far more interesting than the MRM!
http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=%22Mens%20rights%20movement%22%2C%20%22Laxatives%22&cmpt=q
(Hmm … correlation/causation, anyone? 😛 )
Weird that Australia is so much higher than other countries. It seems like Canada is where most of them hang out
@Futrelle – blokes search for single issue stuff that effects them. QED.
@Ugh – fuck off wanker.
So that’s why so many MRAs talk like cartoon villains!
You might want to make the movement not about the child abusers and rapists first. Just saying.
Putting the cart before the horse and all that.
Today we learned that bookmarks are only used for “men’s rights.”
@Crumbelievable – there’s almost certainly a direct correlation between how powerful feminism is in any given area and interest in men’s rights.
Is Joe1 drunk posting again?
I thought he was banned.
“effects” hehe.
Any other combinations of words you want to claim as part of your hate movement while we’re here? How about searches for “testosterone,” and “used cars”? “Child support”?
You really know how to make an argument, there.