Over on Reddit, Men’s Rights subreddit regular 0bvious_Atheist has offered the most, well, inventive explanation for the Newtown school shootings I’ve seen thus far. Apparently channeling the old Man Boobz troll NWOslave, he argues that they were the result of … Title IX.
The only good news here is that this theory was too weird and opportunistic for even the Men’s Rights subreddit, and 0bvious_Atheist’s post got many more downvotes than upvotes.
Also, the 4Chan thing hasn’t been confirmed by any reputable media source. Here’s something from the not-exactly-100%-credible Daily Mail on it is definitely a fake.
Thanks to r/againstmensrights for pointing me to 0bvious_Atheist’s post.
ZOMG, do these shitbirds know that you can be an atheist without being a complete and utter asshole?
Is this what passes for backing up your assertions in MRA land?
What’s grimly amusing is, he’s not COMPLETELY off the mark – this is actually called “aggrieved entitlement,” which is why every single attack since 1982 has been by males and overwhelmingly targets female victims – to the point of releasing the males first, then systemically murdering females (total strangers or not – just for being present, with a vagina and a beating heart) execution-style.
So it’s pretty safe to conclude that **anyone** who tries to suggest that aggrieved entitlement and the resulting male-pattern violence is somehow, magically, the fault (or responsibility) of the people who are targeted for victimization, is in fact a human-shaped sack of talking vomit, and quite possibly a menace to society themselves, imho.
Curse you, blockquotes.
I have only one thing to say:
HOBBITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to go to a women’s only gym which was a safe place for many women who felt uncomfortable in a mixed setting. Some brilliant guy decided that this was a horrible form of discrimination and tried to initiate a human rights campaign to allow himself and other males to join the gym. He compared his crusade to the day Rosa Parks decided she would not move to the back of the bus. Sadly he failed and had to settle for the hundreds of other gyms in town.
I used to go to a women’s only gym which was a safe place for many women who felt uncomfortable in a mixed setting. Some brilliant guy decided that this was a horrible form of discrimination and tried to initiate a human rights campaign to allow himself and other males to join the gym. He compared his crusade to the day Rosa Parks decided she would not move to the back of the bus. Sadly he failed and had to settle for the hundreds of other gyms in town.
@Kamilla: For the sake of “equality” he should have proposed a men’s only gym. Segregation for all!
On another note, I’m wondering if all this mass shooting apologist crap is due to these guys feeling like their gender is getting a bad rap.
Huh? Like…you can’t control yourself? Or you can’t form your own club or get together with the guys to watch football or play football or basketball?
If their last bastion of male interaction is the internet, then maybe they should stop playing WoW and CoD, and go outside and try hanging out with some dudes. It would help if they’d stop with the “No homo” bullshit, and just be cool interacting with guys without policing each other’s masculinity. Just a thought. Or, you know, feminists are evil. Whatever works.
Of course no gun control law would stop violence happening. It’d just make it less efficient and less lethal.
Is that why Augusta National Golf Club finally started admitting women earlier this year—the Title IX Femspiracy finally got around to oppressing them?
This, and that everything has to be about them.
Fucking entitled shitbags. Everything has to revolve around them, everything has to promote men (or that very narrow range of people who they think are acceptable men) and exclude women, and they just shrug off murder, even when it includes little boys.
NO REALLY!? (:-O
Btw, how come you have sororities and fraternities in the US? In Sweden we have clubs and organisations at universities and colleges as well that arranges parties and stuff, but they’re gender-mixed. Since lots of people are interested in hooking up, and lots of people are straight, it sort of seems more efficient to have mixed clubs. Is there some special reason why you have this gender-segregation thing, or is it just tradition that goes way back and nobody remembers how it started?
By that “men are excluded” argument, women should have been going around committing mass murder when we were excluded from most sorts of work, from voting, from owning our own property, from getting loans, from … strangely enough, we didn’t. And strangely enough, most men even in the misandrist dystopia of the US don’t do it, either.
Eat Legos, MRM.
Because men everywhere but Sweden HATE WOMEN, to the exclusion of all else. When hating women is built into the reality of half of everyone, mixed organizations? We can’t get men to acknowledge that this is indeed JUST PART of male pattern violence – because that would require them to acknowledge that male pattern violence even exists.
And they won’t. Calling it what it is makes it much harder for them to excuse doing it.
Hate to break it to you, Miss Andrist*, but we don’t have fraternities or sororities in the UK either.
*Also LOL, troll harder.
Serious overstatement and generalisation there, Miss Andrist. A patriarchal society doesn’t literally mean all men hating all women. And, incidentally, you’re grossly insulting a lot of the regulars here with that comment.
We don’t do fraternities or sororities in Oz, either, as far as I know.
What a fucking asshole.
Fraternities and sororities in the US tend to be really big on tradition. A lot of the tradition is a matter of the members wanting to protect their privileges, at least at the University I went to. So I suspect they’re single gender mostly because nearly everything was years ago and no one wants to change the system.
So, does anyplace but the US have fraternities or sororities? They are huge among a certain class of people here, middle class with pretentions, like my mom’s family, for one. When I was in the ninth grade, my grandmother already had my sorority picked out for me. (I didn’t joint one. I was so not that kind of young woman.)
I know when I think of fraternities or sororities, I get a sort of twinset-and-pearls or Ivy League image – very 50s or 60s stuff and very rich-white-kids. Which may be totally inaccurate of course!
I really don’t understand the kind of people who join frats/sororities. Used to work with some, and their need to be liked and accepted just seemed a bit over the top to me. Why would you willingly sign up for that kind of hazing? I don’t get it.