Our old friend over at the Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology blog is angry again. This time he’s mad at a legitimate target: National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre. But not because LaPierre is the head of an organization that has stood athwart every attempt at sensible gun control, making tragedies like the one in Newtown an all-too-predictable side effect of the easy availability of semiautomatic weaponry.
No, Mr. Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech is made at LaPierre because he thinks the NRA big gun has turned into a feminist. No, really. Noting that in the wake of the Newtown shootings LaPierre launched a transparently opportunistic attack on violent video games, Mr. PMAFT accuses him of doing the work of the grand feminist conspiracy against men and manhood:
The most important reason why LaPierre is wrong is because what he is doing is feminist. Video games are an activity predominately enjoyed by men. So are guns. Both activities are under attack from feminists (just like other predominately male activities like science fiction are) because men are interested in them and women are mostly not interested in them. LaPierre is shooting himself in the foot (pun intended) by alienating allies among the video game community and helping out feminists in their war on male activities.
Never mind that nearly half – 47% — of those playing video games these days are girls and women, according to the Entertainment Software Association. (I await the inevitable comment from a troll telling us all that whatever games these women are playing just don’t count because blah and blah.)
What LaPierre should have done is form an alliance with the video game community. While the Newtown shootings are being used against gun owners right now, the next target will be video games and other mostly male interests and activities. Both the video game community and the gun community are fighting the same enemy, feminism. They should be working together to point out facts like how the Newtown shooter was raised by a single mother and how homes where the father is kicked out lead to more violence.
Never mind that the shooter — like virtually all mass shooters — was a dude; a woman is always to blame.
The NRA is in a position of weakness now because they are attacking video games and not the real causes of the Newtown tragedy, single motherhood and feminism. The NRA is in the same boat as the Republican Party where it needs to become an explicitly anti-feminist and pro-mens rights organization to survive. (Lots of conservative and right wing organizations are in this situation.) Guns aren’t the problem here, but neither are video games. The NRA needs to realize this and realize that its only way forward is by fighting feminism. Anything else leads the NRA to irrelevance.
So one of the most powerful lobbies in American politics needs to team up with a Men’s Rights “movement” that can’t organize a single event that draws a crowd bigger than 8 people, or else it will fade into irrelevance?
I dearly hope the NRA fades into obscurity, and I am hopeful that public opinion about guns is beginning finally to shift in the right direction, but I’m not sure the NRA needs any pointers from MRAs on political relevance.
Well, apparently feminism, according to the UK column, prevents men from being husbands and fathers but instead allows women to decide if they can even exist.
Where do they get this shit?
Oh, where shit normally comes from. I forgot.
The idea that women make up half of gamers is a major feminist distortion. Women are predominantly Facebook casuals, for example, Farmville. Those aren’t real games, and women are a tiny portion of real gamers. The industry is by and for men. Feminists may have a difficult time accepting that.
He makes it sound like feminism is a specific person.
I’m just glad to hear people bringing up the positive social implications of bronies after getting chewed out by Baron Blackheart on the fora for saying the exact same thing XD
Me:
AJ Carson:
I’m a regular Nostradamus, I am!
@AJ Carson, go right on telling yourself that. Along with whatever else helps get you through the day.
I’m so glad AJ dropped by to clear that up.
@AJ Carson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
That is all.
I’m surprised it took so long.
go right on telling yourself that. Along with whatever else helps get you through the day.
Are you looking in a mirror? It’s common knowledge that women are mostly Facebook casuals or pretenders. Is your denialism this strong?
OP:
AJ Carson:
@AJ
Do you have a citation for all this “common knowledge”? Sounds like it would be pretty easy to find.
Arseflaps
Thanks for the misgendering. Always appreciated from a troll who thinks there are only women here.
Common knowledge? Citation please; I don’t trust the “common knowledge” of MRAs and trolls. And what’s a “pretender?”
I agree that there are some real women gamers, but not many. It’s like, how there are some stay-at-home fathers.
Very much on topic, we need our own Miss Sweetie Poo.
Evidence or GTFO Carson.
If the industry was “by and for men” and so few women are involved then why are the big brave menz so threatened by those few women?
Couldn’t be that those men are the usual mob of cowardly misogynists who can’t deal with the fact that women exist, could it?
It’s true. The only way I can get through the day is by telling myself the lie that nearly 47% of gamers are female. My world is crumbling around me. I am bereft, and walking in a great darkness.
David, you’re brilliant, except for the “because blah and blah” part. AJ hasn’t even given us a bullshit reason why Facebook games aren’t games.
Haha the whole of women’s rights has been brought down by the evidence-free assertion of a man too MANLY to understand how blockquotes work.
There is much woe and knashing of teeth.
Thanks for the misgendering. Always appreciated from a troll who thinks there are only women here.
I didn’t misgender you, and who cares?
everyone else:
The vast majority of AAA gamers are men. Infact I’d say that I’ve never even heard of a woman who can hold her own in the Halo arena.
David, you’re brilliant, except for the “because blah and blah” part. AJ hasn’t even given us a bullshit reason why Facebook games aren’t games.
They’re games. But they’re games for casuals.
Yeah, but you have to change their batteries like every five minutes.
Oh noes!! Wimminz exist? How can I continue my existence knowing that???
Ive been hanging with eighteen members of my dysfunctional family, and I have loved seeing just how non-normative we are. My ex brother in law spent most of his time in a sarong, my androgynous sister preached the fuck leg shaving gospel, my teenage nephews showed an impressive level of physical affection with each other and my neice told me she really hoped the next Disney princess is a lesbian.
I wore a skirt and the newest member of the family, six year old stepbrother, was a little confused.
SB: Boys don’t usually wear skirts.
Me: But I do.
SB: So you’re kind of a girl-boy
Me: Yup, Im a girly boy.
SB: But you’re still a boy?
Me: Yeah, Im still a boy.
SB: Oh, okay!
He’ll fit right in.
(On the OT my nephews love playing Walking Dead, but show no inclination to shooting people)