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The Men’s Rights Movement: Much Less Popular Than Horse Porn

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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.

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Now let’s put that in perspective.

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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:

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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.

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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.)

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cloudiah
11 years ago

Your whole argument is a non-sequitor. Just because the specific search term “men’s rights” is typed less frequently into search engines does not mean there’s less interest in the topic. If you follow SEO, you would be aware that long tail search terms are used far more frequently than in 2004, so other terms surrounding men’s rights have gained tremendously.

You don’t really understand how Google Trends works, do you?

Secondly, more men bypass search engines altogether as they click straight through to their favourite sites and get the information they are seeking straight from those sites without having to make a preliminary search on a search engine.

HA HA HA HA HA. (cloudiah pauses to take a drink of water.) HA HA HA HA HA.

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

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”

cloudiah
11 years ago

Guyz, they are hiding their searches from teh Google.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
11 years ago

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! 😀 😀 😀 😀

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
11 years ago

Like many other posts I have read on this site, your logic is terribly flawed.

What part of “Misogyny. I mock it,” do you not understand?

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

@Joe

The word “visitation” is not exactly exclusive to your hate movement there, champ. The Google top ten are mostly churches and movies.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

@kittehs

Lol.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Funnily enough most blokes start theinking about men’s rights when they get divorced.

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?

princessbonbon
11 years ago

That is because it is a very adorable drawing HellKell.

Creative Writing Student
Creative Writing Student
11 years ago

Less interest in Men’s Rights than ‘my vagina’.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20my%20vagina&cmpt=q

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago
Ranter (@socialrants)
11 years ago

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!

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

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.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
11 years ago

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? 😛 )

Crumbelievable
Crumbelievable
11 years ago

Weird that Australia is so much higher than other countries. It seems like Canada is where most of them hang out

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

@Futrelle – blokes search for single issue stuff that effects them. QED.

@Ugh – fuck off wanker.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
The Kittehs' Unpaid Help
11 years ago

Clearly the key to getting Men’s Rights into public consciousness is to make it into a cartoon and get it on telly.

So that’s why so many MRAs talk like cartoon villains!

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Clearly the key to getting Men’s Rights into public consciousness is to make it into a cartoon and get it on telly.

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.

cloudiah
11 years ago

Today we learned that bookmarks are only used for “men’s rights.”

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

@Crumbelievable – there’s almost certainly a direct correlation between how powerful feminism is in any given area and interest in men’s rights.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Is Joe1 drunk posting again?

I thought he was banned.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

@Futrelle – blokes search for single issue stuff that effects them. QED.

“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”?

cloudiah
11 years ago

fuck off wanker

You really know how to make an argument, there.