You all need to go read Kate Harding’s bracing (and given all the recent doxxing bullshit, spectacularly well-timed) Jezebel piece titled “Fuck You, Men’s Rights Activists.” Here’s a sample:
Fuck you, first of all, for making it nearly impossible for decent men struggling with abusive partners or unfair custody arrangements to get the help they need and deserve. You have forever tainted those issues with your rage-filled, obsessively anti-woman horseshit, to the point where it’s become difficult for any rational, compassionate person to trust a man who claims he’s been screwed over in family court or abused by a female partner, even if he has. …
Fuck you for showing up every time women speak, especially about rape and abuse, and trying to make it all about you. Fuck you for derailing threads about the victims of Marc Lépine, a man who screamed about his hatred for feminists as he murdered fourteen women and injured many others, because you also hate feminists and want a fucking cookie for not killing anyone. Fuck you for making rape and death threats against young women who dared to protest a speaking engagement by a man who thinks little girls would enjoy being raped by their fathers if it weren’t for society telling them it’s dirty. Fuck you for whining about how unfair it is that women might wonder if you’re a rapist when you approach them out of nowhere, while completely ignoring how unfair it is that women feel the need to be on guard all the time in public. Or that if we relax and behave normally—drinking, dancing, dressing however we want—you will be the first motherfuckers in line to blame us for getting ourselves raped.
And it keeps going from there.
Thank you Kate, for putting it so well.
Kate Harding is spot on as usual (I also miss Shapely Prose) — I’m staying out of those comments though, I haven’t had coffee yet and it is thus too early for that level of stupid.
(Hi Freitag! I missed that old fashioned cat of yours!)
inurashii — let me offer you some nice soothing clown loaches for your break —
http://youtu.be/WckVL5NGLQU
Scented Fuck You candles?
Oh my god some women hate me because I am an MRM and MGTOW. How can I live with my self. My self esteem is destroyed and I am a shame to be a man. We need more women like her to put men like me in his place. Now I will go down in my basement and whip my self because a women told me to fuck off.
I need to save me from myself.
In the meantime, here’s a cat walking funny because of a balloon.
http://youtu.be/vGV1PYM4i70
They are so delusional they are convincing themselves that Harding’s piece was an attempt to open negotiations with MRAs.
Seriously, you can’t make this shit up.
BWAHAHAHAHA who does this fuckwit think has been talking about genuine men’s issues for decades? Feminists, those awful extremists, that’s who!
These guys are the Marianas Trench of stupidity and self-delusion.
Well, that’s certainly a unique way to interpret a “fuck you” in response to a specific event. It means they want us to do more of the thing that caused them to tell us to fuck off! Isn’t it obvious?
PS – I’m fairly sure that Kate Harding does not in fact want to be friends with the MRM.
She was just negging them.
MRAs simply do not understand feminists on even the most basic level. We already know there are men’s issues; the protestors were not protesting against men’s issues in Toronto. We are against their misogyny and their abuse apologia, and they simply don’t get why we would object to either.
Oh, yes. Because doing stupid shit like that will make teh wimmminz love you so much. Yes, gents, keep doing what you’re doing, and then the feminists will become your allies.
I wonder if it hurts, being that stupid.
I look forwards excitedly (spoiler: not really) to MRAs explaining how to tell whether a feminist is partisan, peacemaker or merely rank-and-file ….
“MRAs simply do not understand
feministsanything on even the most basic level.”FTFY
I keep thinking that a specific combination of words will manage to unlock the revelation that, “Hey, feminists and I have long disapproved of some of the same things, and want to change them!”
Nope.
Well obviously us male feminists are only in it to pick up Teh Wimminz, so we’ll be on the more extreme end to avoid looking too entitled.
Howard: I think that’s a good way to think about it, thanks.
Where are they getting the idea that the best way to get people to compromise with you is to be an unrelenting dick? Is it from the Senate?
Every once in a while, I get this really bizarre idea that if I just tried hard enough, I would get through to some MRAs.
I don’t think it would work though 🙁
@whataboutthemoonz – that’s an awful lot of solid skull to drill through. I dont’ think it’d be worth the effort.
@titanblue
It’s tattooed on the back of their necks.
I thought it was tattooed on our lips, and that’s why we have to grow the Stalin moustaches … ?
That dude’s rationalization hamster is working overtime. He may have come out with the dumbest thing ever said by an MRA, and there’s some stiff competition for that dubious honor.
FEMINSITS ARE PLANNING TO DRILL THROUGH OUR SKULLS! SUMMON A VOICE FOR MEN! CODE RED! CODE RED!!!!!!!!
And my power drill’s batteries are flat, so I’m gonna use a BIT AND BRACE.
::laughs evilly::
“Making peace?” “Unrelenting attack”?
They really think of themselves as lil` Internet warriors. Haha
Yes, make peace with the (and I use this word loosely) organization whose driving motivation is antithetical to absolutely everything you stand for. But I guess it sort of makes sense in a way. In MRA-speak, ‘fuck you’ is code for ‘let’s be friends’!
They probably hear it as “I WANT TO fuck you.”