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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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The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

@Kitteh – actually funny. 😀

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

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

I suppose that’s true, in the same sense that there was no specific white supremacist movement back when slavery was still legal. That means the white supremacists are winning, right?

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
11 years ago

I don’t quite get the bit where a guy who sticks his dick in people while they are sleeping self identifies as a nice guy. Or is “nice guy” the current euphemism for d00dz who stick their dicks in sleeping people?

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

@Cloudiah – no point arguing with Ugh, he’s a broken record.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

thebewilderness: it’s just so HAAAARD, you know, to know right from wrong and that sleeping people are off limits unless you’ve negotiated that earlier.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Joe, fuck off.

MKlein
MKlein
11 years ago

@LBT – YES. Specifically, you need to tell the Loki’s Army fandom/subfandom of the Avengers. Because Norse Mythology reasons 🙂
(In fact…*sprints off to Tumblr*)

The First Joe
The First Joe
11 years ago

Enjoy your circle jerk, assholes.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

@Cloudiah – no point arguing with Ugh, he’s a broken record.

I will stop calling the MRM a hate movement the day you provide me the name of one popular MRA who does not advocate for rape and child abuse.

If I’m lying about the MRM, that should be pretty easy to find, right?

cloudiah
11 years ago

You have a nice day too, Joe. It’s always such a pleasant experience when you come by to poop in a comment thread.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

@Cloudiah – no point arguing with Ugh, he’s a broken record.

I will stop calling the MRM a hate movement the day you provide me the name of one popular MRA who does not advocate for rape and child abuse.

If I’m lying about the MRM, that should be pretty easy to find, right?

Ranter (@socialrants)
11 years ago

I really need to read the comments here more, I can’t tell if some are MRA trolls or making fun of them. It’s like reading a headline and not being sure if that shit actually happened or its an Onion article. If someone told me the MRAs have declared that the lost city of Atlantis sank because of feminists, I honestly wouldn’t know if they were shitting me or not.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Enjoy your circle jerk, assholes.

Haha and what would you call a group of people who exist to tell each other about how it’s alright to be a rapist or an abuser?

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

We’ll enjoy it just fine without you, Joe.

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
11 years ago

Why is it always penis references with these trolls? whywhywhy.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

@Ranter – Joe and Mark thingy are trolls. Warren and Jaye I don’t know, and everyone else is either a regular or not trolling (as in, trotting out misogynist shite). 🙂

Bee
Bee
11 years ago

No no no no wait, MRAs use Bing.

cloudiah
11 years ago

If anyone needs a laugh, there’s new banner art, a post full of Bodsy’s MRM posters, and a resurrected gem from Myoo available here:
http://artistryforfeminismandkittens.wordpress.com/

MKlein
MKlein
11 years ago

And star wars will always be culturally relevant, period. Calling it a fandom is like calling the ocean a body of water (*nerd moment*).

katz
11 years ago

Rebecca Black: Still more relevant than men’s rights.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

Bodsy has won all teh internets.

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

Bye Joe! Have fun doing whatever it is you do!

What is it about the tag line that’s so confusing? It’s like if you came into Football.com or something and went “WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT FOOTBALL? You’re a circle-jerk of football lovers!”

Well, yes. It’s kinda what we came for.

RE: MKlein

I’m familiar. I had to tumblr savior to get rid of so much of the fandom stuff; there were only so many Loki horse jokes I could stand.

BuffySummers1000
11 years ago

I’m new to this whole world (I mean I knew about it, but I didn’t *know* about it – if you know what I mean). I’ve been looking at it pretty intently for the last couple weeks and I’m thinking it’s time for a Silkwood shower and a bit of a break. Seriously David, I don’t know how you do it – you’re a Saint.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245447/Rhonda-Ford-Oklahoma-teacher-sex-student-half-age-spend-12-years-bars.html

It could be that a lot of them just realized culture was shifting the way they wanted it to anyways.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Diogenes, if you have use the Daily Fail, you’ve lost before you started.