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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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pillowinhell
11 years ago

Well seeing as this is now the “all about cynic” thread, have you “invented” any other mathmatics Cynic?

How’s your IQ score doing? Renewed your MENSA membership lately?

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

the image this brings up in my mind is of porn involving MRAs, which is a horror I can now never unsee.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

pillowinhell: that all depends on how blackout drunk he’s been lately.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

The Kitteh

Just consider me an unlicensed philosopher. I practice my trade throughout the internet bringing enlightenment where it’ll penetrate. 😉

I backed up my assertion with data. I would hardly consider that a fantasy. Unlike the person above who asserted that the sentencing disparity went the other way.

Misandry: You define it.

And if anything, I did come up with a possible solution to a problem we all know exists.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Haha the guy who spent an evening arguing the superiority of “Western culture” is now giving us a lecture on what is racist.

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

You know jack shit about philosophy or anything else, kid. And now you’re spouting “misandry” you’ve proven everything we’ve said about you.

I repeat: piss off, boring head-up-arse troll.

katz
11 years ago

case in WA? you can’t just put that there and not explain!

I’m assuming Hellkell refers to the Enumclaw horse sex case of 2005. Guy died from a ruptured colon while fucking a horse. Wasn’t charged because Washington had no law against bestiality at the time.

I was living in Washington at the time. SO MANY HORSE SEX JOKES. Seriously, you couldn’t mention the word horse, or any horse-related word, without people cracking up.

My favorite was “It was a Trojan horse.”

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

No, you created a solution in search of a problem. Did you strain anything trying to pat yourself on the back?

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

pillowinhell

Well, I spent a half hour practicing the script of the Voynich Manuscript today. I think I have a way to crack the code.

And I did spend some time practicing writing on vellum.

Oh yeah, and I worked on a piston on emachineshop today.

Probably more than what you’ve done.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Just consider me an unlicensed philosopher. I practice my trade throughout the internet bringing enlightenment where it’ll penetrate.

Remember when Diogenes argued that Montesquieu “believed in equality”?

Truly his knowledge of philosophy dwarfs that of we humble layfolk.

pillowinhell
11 years ago

Hellkell, ah yes, right!

And of course the IQ test must have been floating just above the toilet bowl. Though I suppose if you’re drunk enough, finding the flush handle could prove a major cognative challenge.

katz
11 years ago

Did you invent vellum when you were 10, Diogenes?

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Katz: yup, that’s the case.

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
11 years ago

Every time one of these trolls show up they remind me of that particular sort of street harasser who you do not dare respond to else they will trot after you for block after block demanding your attention. Sometimes they do it even if you ignore them.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Diogenes: well, fuck right off if you didn’t make your own ink and carve your own nib for that vellum writing. STANDARDS, PEOPLE!!!!

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

And I did spend some time practicing writing on vellum.

Glad to see those scholarship dollars are going to a good cause.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Aw, c’mon, he has A HIGH IQ.

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
11 years ago

We didn’t have any upskirt picture laws in WA until some dipshit dood started harassing women at the county fair. Now we do.

pillowinhell
11 years ago

Ooh. You worked on vellum today!!

So? And a piston! Oh my god whats that? Grade nine small motors class?

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Today, I killed a calf to make my own vellum and then cracked the Harappa script, so I’m pretty sure that makes me the better expert on who makes 75 cents on which dollar in today’s society.

pillowinhell
11 years ago

Cycnic, I’m a professionally trained sign painter and I replicate/ design my own illuminated manuscripts myself. Vellum is not a big deal.

Ugh
Ugh
11 years ago

Haha only a truly superior mind could craft a machine component that moves both forwards AND backwards.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

Ugh,

There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes to the hour. So, the Babylonians won that one.

There are 360 degrees to a circle. Another Babylonian victory. People hardly use radians.

What about base 10 math, and numbering system? Lets give that one over to the Indians.

The metre, and SI units? Well, thats the French mostly.

But today? Every suit has buttons on the same side. All airline pilots must speak English because thats the worldwide standard for tower control communications.

There was a culture war, and some people won. Just realize that. Look over at videos of Japanese businessmen, or Chinese bureaucrats. They’re wearing the suits designed on a couple of blocks in London around Seville row 150 years ago.

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

LOL now Dipshit the Naive has descended to the “neenerneener I’m better than you” level. Must be channelling his inner six-year-old.

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