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.)
pillowinhell: yeah, he’s talking about vellum as if it’s not amateur hour. It has it’s uses, but who cares? Watercolor paper is a bigger pain in the ass.
Our prodigy, ladies and gentlemen.
(Did he figure that out when he was 10, too?)
The Kitteh
What have you ever done?
What does it matter what Kitteh has done? She’s cool and you’re a dipshit.
Hellkell, yes water color paper is a BIG pain in the ass, especially when the paper you prefer is out of stock. Then again, watercolor is a big pain in the ass, because it doesn’t like to stay just the way you put it.
Diogenes: I can’t tell you what Kitteh has done, nor does it matter. I can tell you one thing Kitteh HASN’T done, and that piss everyone on this board off by being a clueless buffoon.
Actually, there was a series of actual wars, and some people won. “Having all the wealth and status due to three hundred years of continuous murder and slavery” != “Having a superior culture.”
katz
That didn’t have to become the international standard.
I remember reading in an ancient text that in Jewish lands, time was measured as parts of 1080. Way to miss the point dude.
memo to self: must try harder
pillowinhell: sometimes I soak before using it. Seems to cut down on the frustration, but it also depends on the type.
It’s cool you’re a sign painter. My great-grandfather was a sign painter for Coca-Cola for years.
Ugh, the Chinese and Koreans had gunpowder first. They had cannons first. They had cannons that shot out multiple arrows in fact.
But Chinese, and Korean are not the principle languages of the New World, are they?
Also, I seriously love how Diogenes’ argument breaks down to “Well, yeah, the basics of all modern math and science were invented outside of Europe, but businessmen wear two button suits, so that means obviously Europe was the superior culture.”
The man’s got his priorities.
Kitteh and I both got negged by asshats on this thread! (cloudiah high fives Kitteh.)
Can we go back to talking about the many search terms that are more interesting than misandry or hypergamy instead of indulging Diogynes in his childish need for attention?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=men%27s%20rights,%20misandry,%20hypergamy,%20lint
Are you fucking kidding with this? I can’t even…
“Sure, some cultures invented technologies before us. But WE were the ones who thought to apply those technologies towards genocide and slavery on a global scale, so that proves we’re superior.”
Most. Watertight. Argument. Ever.
http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/roman.htm
A link I always found interesting.
::Kitteh high fives cloudiah::
😀
Ugh: thank you. My brain just fucking quit from the stooopid.
When people complain about the poor and minorities being disproportionately incarcerated, they don’t demand to incarcerate more white people or the privileged. Rather, arguments always have to do with the poor and minorities not getting adequate legal representation, and laws that impose punishment that is out of all proportion with the crime. Neither of these factors apply to the fact that men are the overwhelming majority of those who perpetrate violent crime, and are thus disproportionately represented among people convicted of violent crime.
Your idea about keeping a criminal defendant behind a screen is asinine. The jury needs to hear what happened. If the defendant is a man who is accused of raping a woman, the technicalities of the crime are relevant, and to keep the gender of the accused under wraps, you would need to control the narrative and witness testimony to an extent that the jury hears nothing but bewildering nonsense.
Right. A text that no one has been able to read since the Middle Ages, but you spent half an hour on it and voila, you are about to crack the code. Sure, sure. Come back and report once you DO crack the code. Will that be before or after you colonize Alpha Centauri?
Also, for the love of pete, stop calling yourself a “philosopher”. Every moron with a chip on his shoulder describes himself that way, and this kind of ham-fisted self-aggrandizement fools no one. Knock it off. You are barely able to articulate a coherent thought, never mind philosophize. And incidentally, a true philosopher never describes himself as such — he doesn’t have to.
Check out the regional interest on this one.
@Diogenes
LOL! Yes I’m sure Lovelace and Turing would never have come up with a binary computational system if not for the ancient Romans!
Who’s “we”?
Just admit you’re a product of Western thinking.
Sure, if someone can google the location of my winter hart for me? Lost it two weeks ago. I really miss my funky hat.
Hey, let’s play where in the world is Pillowinhells funky hat! I bet it comes close to MRA search popularity.
Mmmm…. watercolor paper… *jerks upright* DAMMIT ARTBRAIN. Stop wanting expensive things that you can not have!
And oh god, WHY did I google Rhonda Ford? WHY? *claws at eyes* I made the mistake of reading the comments, and dammit, my brain, it burns and cries tears of neuronal paaaaaain…. (No, fools, DO NOT GOOGLE IT. And if you do, DON’T FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE.)
Also, Diogenes, I actually went to a school where a teacher raped a child. Know what happened to him? He had to leave. Did some Googling, but he never showed up, so far as I can tell, nothing else ever happened to him. So now we both have an anecdote. What do you want?