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Kate Harding Tells Men’s Rights Activists to Go Eff Themselves

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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.

 

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Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

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

Tulgey Logger
Tulgey Logger
11 years ago

Are those candles… scented?

Scented Fuck You candles?

justeunperdant
11 years ago

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.

inurashii
inurashii
11 years ago

I need to save me from myself.

In the meantime, here’s a cat walking funny because of a balloon.
http://youtu.be/vGV1PYM4i70

cloudiah
11 years ago

They are so delusional they are convincing themselves that Harding’s piece was an attempt to open negotiations with MRAs.

Here’s my take. Feminist partisans like Jezebel are losing influence with the rank-and-file, and the feminist peacemakers are on the rise (the feminists who want to make peace with MRAs but were completely ignored up to this point). The partisans are appealing to the rank-and-file, who are starting to sympathize with us, and asking for continued power. That would explain why the opening move was to give a list of legitimate men’s issues. Because the rank-and-file are starting to believe that we do have legitimate men’s issues.

The feminist rank-and-file will continue to shift their allegiance from the partisans to the peacemakers, but only as long as the MRA partisans (like avfm) continue their unrelenting attack on the feminist partisans (with the outing of the UofT students being the most recent compelling example).

Seriously, you can’t make this shit up.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

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.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

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.

cloudiah
11 years ago

She was just negging them.

Tulgey Logger
Tulgey Logger
11 years ago

That would explain why the opening move was to give a list of legitimate men’s issues. Because the rank-and-file are starting to believe that we do have legitimate men’s issues.

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.

freitag235
freitag235
11 years ago

The feminist rank-and-file will continue to shift their allegiance from the partisans to the peacemakers, but only as long as the MRA partisans (like avfm) continue their unrelenting attack on the feminist partisans (with the outing of the UofT students being the most recent compelling example).

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.

titianblue
titianblue
11 years ago

I look forwards excitedly (spoiler: not really) to MRAs explaining how to tell whether a feminist is partisan, peacemaker or merely rank-and-file ….

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

“MRAs simply do not understand feminists anything on even the most basic level.”

FTFY

gelar
gelar
11 years ago

That would explain why the opening move was to give a list of legitimate men’s issues. Because the rank-and-file are starting to believe that we do have legitimate men’s issues.

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.

MorkaisChosen
MorkaisChosen
11 years ago

I look forwards excitedly (spoiler: not really) to MRAs explaining how to tell whether a feminist is partisan, peacemaker or merely rank-and-file ….

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.

katz
11 years ago

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?

whataboutthemoonz
11 years ago

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 🙁

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

@whataboutthemoonz – that’s an awful lot of solid skull to drill through. I dont’ think it’d be worth the effort.

Myoo
Myoo
11 years ago

@titanblue

I look forwards excitedly (spoiler: not really) to MRAs explaining how to tell whether a feminist is partisan, peacemaker or merely rank-and-file ….

It’s tattooed on the back of their necks.

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

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 … ?

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

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.

cloudiah
11 years ago

that’s an awful lot of solid skull to drill through.

FEMINSITS ARE PLANNING TO DRILL THROUGH OUR SKULLS! SUMMON A VOICE FOR MEN! CODE RED! CODE RED!!!!!!!!

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

And my power drill’s batteries are flat, so I’m gonna use a BIT AND BRACE.

::laughs evilly::

Crumbelievable
Crumbelievable
11 years ago

“Making peace?” “Unrelenting attack”?

They really think of themselves as lil` Internet warriors. Haha

timetravellingfool
timetravellingfool
11 years ago

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’!

The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

They probably hear it as “I WANT TO fuck you.”