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.)
Diogenes, you weren’t actually making an argument. You posted a link to the Daily Fail and made a brief comment about culture going the way the MRM want it. You can’t keep up this so-superior schtick, you know. You’ve been shown up far too often.
case in WA? you can’t just put that there and not explain!
Ergo, listening to Rebecca Black deserves jail time. QED.
Oh, so woman getting gaol time for a crime = culture going the way the MRM wants?
Fail. Women have always received gaol time – sometimes disproportionate sentences for the same crimes men commit – the whole MRM idea of women getting away with things is as much a fantasy as the rest of their shite.
When are you going to stop pretending you’re not a misogynist?
The Kitteh
Chill out. have some catnip.
Seriously, Diogenes, you have no argument.
Kim: you asked for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Pinyan
Its so funny how you guys will complain about “privilege” while being so blind to it yourselves.
Note, you didn’t argue that minorities, or the poor get harsher sentences for the same crime, probably because you know its true.
http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=gang_lee
Facts. Read them.
Well, at least feminism is ALMOST as popular as horse porn. Men’s rights isn’t even close.
Diogenes, are you really going to go the “female privilege” route?
Don’t act like you give a fuck about the poor or minorities except to make a point. MRAs generally don’t.
Nice try at goalpost shifting, but you started with women’s sentencing. Weasel.
Its not the first time GMP has posted shit defending rapists. Last one I encountered, the guys excuse for raping a woman was that another woman had raped him a few years back. I stopped reading GMP at that point.
Nice shifting of goalposts there, shitbrain. You been taking lessons from Bob?
@The Kittehs’ Unpaid Help. In what way can my post be read as troll material? I looked at the graph, saw a huge spike and suggested a reason for it.
Sorry, Warren, I meant “You’re one of the people I don’t know on this thread,” not “I don’t know if your post was trolling” – the comment itself was neutral but some trolls do start that way. 🙂
@hellkell
That’s terrible. It sounds like it wasn’t even his horse!
But thanks… I really didn’t want to google that.
Feminist porn is MUCH more popular than men’s rights activist porn. (Which actually has no results at all if you search for the phrase in quotes.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22men%27s+rights+activist+porn%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Then again I’ m pretty sure no one wants to see MRA porn.
Isn’t MRA porn mostly in the format of lurid short stories, about the downfall and sexual torture/punishment of feminists?
So, lemme get this straight. I’m not a racist for pointing out sentencing disparities in minorities, and I’m not a classist [?] for pointing out that poor people get harsher sentences, but I’m a misogynist for pointing out that there is a gender disparity?
And wanting people to get the same time for the same crime somehow makes me hate women? But it doesn’t make me hate minorities or the poor. And it doesn’t address the fact that wanting equality is now somehow bad, when you don’t like what I have to say. Interesting.
And you claim I’m an MRA. Do you have any proof of that? I have been nothing but honest the whole time I’ve been here. Heck, you can even check me out at other forums to see if I’m really the same person all the time. I don’t call myself an MRA.
So you get somehow to tell me that I don’t care about the poor or minorities because what? How do you know I’m not one to begin with?
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of minimum guidelines, so if I had a stab to take at tweaking things so everyone would be on the same foot, I would require that all courts seat the defendant before the jury came in, and have them sit behind a wall or in a booth, so the jury couldn’t see them. During the trial, they would be referred to by their initials, like clinicians do. Now, that would produce some more fair results. You would probably be against that too though. Too much fairness.
Kim: I had to do a pretty interesting search, since I couldn’t remember a lot of the particulars.
Diogenes: what you are is simple, naive, not as bright as you claim, and dull.
MRA porn does look quite a bit like Gor porn. I was going to link to Artistry Against Misandry for that terrible e-book, but it looks like the site is down! And never archived by the Wayback Machine! It’s a tragedy to lose the MRM’s cultural heritage like that.
Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/wZm85.png
kell, keep telling yourself that. If it makes you feel better and all.
Oh, and more goalpost shifting, but this time you want to make it all about you. Pass.
Diogenes, I don’t give a flying fuck what you call yourself, but when you come on here making comments that back up MRM fantasies (like the idea that women have benefitted from sentencing vis a vis men, or that feminists are generally likely to think female on male rape is okay) then yes, you paint yourself with the misogynist brush. Your condescending I’m-such-a-clever-teenager bullshit, combined with frequently getting your facts wrong, doesn’t win you any friends, either. So grow up or piss off.
men’s rights activist porn. (Which actually has no results at all if you search for the phrase in quotes.)
the image this brings up in my mind is of porn involving MRAs, which is a horror I can now never unsee.