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.)
What’s your point, Diogenes? You’re not trying to say pedophilia (regardless of the perpertrator’s sex) is something new, are you? Or are you suggesting it’s become more acceptable and that pleases the MRM?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=feminism%2C%20horse%20porn&cmpt=q
Holy shit, feminism is also less popular than horse porn!
And by golly-gee, feminism is also on the decline! It’s at 40% of its prior value. Oh deary me.
Keep your apology brief.
I thought it was weird that Brisbane is such a hotspot, so I did some googling of my own. mensrights.com.au is based in Logan (just south of Brisbane). Their website is quite slick and at first glance they look legitimate, but then you read the first line of their about us page
And you can see they have the same persecution complex as the rest of the MRA.
I guess horse porn trumps everything. Fuck off, preggopunchout. You’ll get an apology right around the time you sprout wings and fly.
hellkell, you can be a gracious failure or a miserable failure. I see you’ve chosen the latter. Have a wonderful day!
PreggoPunchout, everything is less popular than porn, even (especially?) horse porn. The Internet is made almost entirely of (1) porn and (2) kitten videos.
Just for the record guys, I’m not a troll but a long-time lover of this blog and your pithy replies who rarely gets time/has the word prowess of you all to post. Thanks for having me in the “circle-jerk” 🙂 Oh, and not EVERYTHING is more interesting than men’s rights, sad to say :(. Dingleberries for instance: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights%2C%20dingleberries&cmpt=q
Nah, everything firmly trumps horse porn.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=everything%2C%20horse%20porn&cmpt=q
Oh, this is classic too… do boys not count as male?
Hey preggopunchout, feminism may not have beat horse porn, but it’s still more popular than the freakshow that is the MRM.
Eat a bowl of bees, you utter loser.
Feminism still beats the bejesus out of men’s rights
Part of me wonders at that big rise in the horse porn graph from 08-09 and what caused it, but the wiser part of me realizes I probably don’t want to know.
I would bet money all porn-related searches trump almost anything, thanks to Rule 34 (which I mentioned in a room full of people today and none of them knew what it was!).
And it’s so sad — still no comments on PreggoPunchout’s blog. Even when he tries to suck up to JudgyBitch… Crickets.
Ninjaed by cloudiah. Dammit.
Cockroaches are far more popular than the MRM. I find this heartening.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22men's%20rights%22%2C%20%22cockroaches%22&cmpt=q
Aww, cloudiah, you’re just so stupid it’s adorable. Okay, let me summarize for you, since you seem to be having trouble:
1. David posts gloating about how “horse porn” is more popular in search queries than “men’s rights”.
2. You bitch about how everything is less popular than porn.
3. You miss the point entirely and I rub it in your face. And keep rubbing it into your face, you adorable little dumbass.
But porn trumps everything!
http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/state/former-high-school-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-relationship-with-student
Better Hellkell?
The facts are still the same.
The Kitteh, don’t pretend you can’t follow a simple argument. I know you can.
What would a guy in todays world have a possible gripe with? Seriously. Its not like were in Victorian times again, and it doesn’t look like we will have another draft anytime soon. If you were the one who had to pick a legitimate gripe, what would it be?
Well, same crime, same time would be one. Looks like thats happening. Apologists for bad behavior are dying off or being laughed at. Thats one legitimate problem thats being taken care of. Although minimum sentencing guidelines have their own set of problems, they’re at least cutting away the disparities of gender, race, and socioeconomic status that offenders would normally have.
Is PreggoPunchout negging me?
Cloudiah, I’d rather not be worried about frostbite down there. So no, I am not negging, pegging, or whatever else those modern snake oil salesmen have to pop-psych you with.
Preggopunchout can’t read a fucking graph. Who knew?
Diogenes, what is your point? It’s a good thing she got jail time. And you know what? It’s NOT feminist who buy into tired-ass cultural tropes that think a female teacher having sex with a young man is a good thing.
But on average, feminism IS more popular than horse porn! 41 to 33!
Also, the interest in horse porn has been slowly but steadily climbing over the last few years. If it was a brief and recent spike, I would totally attribute it to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but this gradual increase is more perplexing.
He is definitely negging me. XD (vomits a little)
I would attribute the spike in horse porn to the case in WA that happened four or five years ago.
Hellkell
Are you having trouble understanding what I’m saying?
Committing a crime=bad thing to do
bad thing to do=deserves jail time
She did the crime, now she is getting the time. No apologetics. No one is even throwing them out there anymore.