I’ve seen some strange and paranoid comments on Men’s Rights hate site A Voice for Men, but this recent comment may be the strangest and paranoidest I’ve ever seen. In the comments to a post outing one of the protesters at the Warren Farrell talk at the University of Toronto, a commenter called Redfield is worried that Canada has now become some sort of death trap for men. Because of all the feminism.
That’s right: Because a couple of feminist college students in Toronto made jokey remarks on Twitter about killing all men, this man is afraid that his 18-year-old son will be in actual physical danger from evil feminists if he sets foot in Canada.
In a later comment, he reports that he and his sons will be going to Canada after all:
But he wonders if there are any “travel advisories” that can, I guess, warn him where feminists tend to congregate:
In the comments here at Man Boobz, Cloudiah imagines how his conversation with the consulate staffer might have gone:
Mid-day at the Consulate General of Canada in Sydney.
Pierre: Hello, you’ve reached the Consulate General of Canada. My name is Pierre. How may I help you?
MRA: I am planning a trip to Canada with my sons next year, and I wanted to know what the feminist threat level will be?
Pierre: Excuse me?
MRA: Yellow? Orange? RED???
Pierre: I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
MRA: I need to know what steps I need to take to protect myself and my boys from being killed by feminists. Do we need to get any shots?
Pierre: Did you say ‘feminists?’
MRA: How many men would you estimate are killed by feminists in Canada in January? February? Or do feminists only thaw out in the Spring?
Pierre: You think we freeze feminists?
MRA: I need to make travel plans!
Pierre: Sir, I think you might have been misinformed.
MRA: I assure you that my information is accurate. It cannot be denied that feminists have been engaged in a campaign to kill all men in Canada.
Pierre: Sir, I believe I would have heard about that.
MRA: I SAW A VIDEO! A pack of rabid feminists tore Warren Farrell apart, limb from limb, and feasted on his spleen!
Pierre: Warren who?
MRA: Then an angry mob of feminist zombies attacked John the Otter with flamethrowers. Or maybe one of them had a cigarette lighter, but it was definitely menacing.
Pierre: John the what?
MRA: They might have accidentally singed his sleeve! Or murdered him with fire!
Pierre: Sir, I’m not sure how to say this but… It might be best if you stayed home.
MRA: It’s because they’re SPERMJACKING us now, right? You’re saying that for my own protection. I get you.
Pierre: Um, sure. Right. Please do not come to Canada. Ever.
MRA: THEY’RE POINTING A GUN AT YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW, AREN’T THEY?
Pierre: [Holds phone in front of his face for a moment. Slowly places it back in the cradle.]
MRA: [Hears dial tone.] Oh my god, they’ve killed him. I must alert A Voice for Men!
I think this is literally how these guys see the world.
This may be why Men’s Rights movement is so much less popular these days (as a search term at least) than one up-and-coming rival for the world’s attention: Smelly discharge. Google Trends doesn’t lie!
Thanks to Cloudiah for coming up with this as well. She is winning so many internets she may need to move into a bigger place.
To see more things the Men’s Rights movement is less popular than, click here.
NOTE: I am aware that “paranoidest” is not a real word. The correct term is “paranoidallyest.”
Tracy that poster is awesome. AWESOME.
Let’s count together.
Canada has 54 full-program universities: institutions with at least ~2500 students and a range of Arts/Humanities options.
Of those 53:
– 9 offer some courses in Women’s Studies.
– 3 offer an undergraduate-level certificate or minor.
– 26 offer a full undergraduate program.
– 15 offer a full graduate program.
– 0 (zero, zilch, not a single one) do not offer any Women’s Studies programming at all.
In other words, if your child is too precious to be tainted by a Canadian feminist, too bad. The absolute best you can hope for is an institution where only scattered courses are available, and they make up only 16% of the market.
More importantly, there’s a pattern: the more Women’s Studies a university offers, the more prestigious it tends to be. You find graduate programs at institutions like the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and McGill, and the various other schools which the children of wealthy dentists queue up to attend.
You want to protect your children from Women’s Studies? Hope you don’t mind sending them to the Royal Military College. But even there, there are DANGEROUS FEMINIST COURSES in the social science and humanities program! Oh NO!
Never mind that this guy is coming from Australia, whose universities are perhaps the most overtly-feminist in the English-speaking world.
*sigh* predictable troll is predictable. It means you’re new dude, all new posters go into mod.
And idk about wanting the trolls of old back — Steele had this long rant about how dude was misandry.
Oh, I think there’s some degree of quality in posting an unpunctuated three words and then following it up with a whole paragraph ranting about being sent to moderation.
It isn’t unpunctuated, he used a comma, in the right place even!
And commas save lives —
Let’s eat Grandma!
Let’s eat, Grandma!
See? Assuming he’s not a hit and run troll, this one does show promise — are there even still regular trolls with NWO and DKM in hiding and Steele, Mr Al, Pell, Br–don et al banned? (Heaven help me, my glossary troll didn’t come back did he?)
I can’t believe no one has posted this yet.
(whispering) Feminism HQ is located underneath Niagara Falls.
The Maple Leaf in Canada’s flag is misandry because Adam, the first man, was depicted in many paintings with a leaf covering his junk.
Tim Horton’s promotes misandry because they sell dough-nut holes — which are shaped a lot like gonades — which they encourage customers to devour.
/sarcasm off/
Who knew the creators of southpark were secret MRAs
Is this guy actually in Australia? Because I can assure him that the feminists in Australia are every bit as dangerous as the ones in Canada (i.e. not dangerous at all)
Yay for down under and our feminist university trained drop bears
Yay for down under and our feminist university trained drop bears
Surely there is a horrifying marsupial you could drop on them instead?
@Bagelsan
Drop bears are terrifying marsupials. They resemble the common koala but drop down on people walking underneath them and bite their heads. If you smear Vegemite behind your ears while bushwalking, that’ll keep them away.
Innocent man killed by feminist drop bear!
Surely if we want to go for a terrifyingly feminine source of menace we need a spider. It’s not like Australia doesn’t have a nice selection to choose from.
Idk, I like the idea of marsupials better than spiders, but then again, I’m terrified of spiders (and I mean the harmless kind even, forget Australia’s selection of deadly ones)
Well, there is the rare and very cute Giant Shoe Spider of West Gippsland, but she’s too lazy to train to do anything.
If I knew how to make animated gifs, I would totally do one like this of her! 😀
But if we made it a spider they could try to appropriate LOTR and give The Matrix a rest for a while.
Spider cat works I guess…and I am half not looking forward to The Hobbit and its Lots of Giant Spiders (wtf was with Tolkien and the giant spiders anyways?)
Tolkien’s spider issue is even weirder when you consider the fact that he was English. Not a lot of really scary spiders in England. It would have made more sense if he’d had Bilbo facing off against a bunch of evil wasps.
Is there any Anti Misandry Hero type for them in LotR? Can’t say I can think of any.
The thought of MRAs as hobbits is kinda funny, though. Or one hobbit, at least. “My precious” in their cases would be their boners.
I wonder if he threw in the spiders when doing The Hobbit as a kids’ story and just went from there? I haven’t read enough about the development and chronology to know when Ungoliant entered the picture. Started Unfinished Tales once and couldn’t get into it at all, having read The Silmarillion already.
“Is there any Anti Misandry Hero type for them in LotR? Can’t say I can think of any.”
Hmm…if we pretend that elves are all women and dwarves men, then I guess Thorin. But no, that doesn’t really work either as the Hobbit is annoyingly devoid of women.
Maybe Boromir, heroically slain by
orcsfeminists!Did anyone else wonder if Son is deliberately hoping to move to Canada to distance himself of embarrassing manly Dad? Also, Sydney. I hang my head in shame. Australia, you’re standing in it.