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MRA: The National Rifle Association needs to stop talking about video games and fight the real enemy: feminists.

Video Games: Super Serious Man Business
Video Games: Super Serious Man Business

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.

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atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“I’m actually a bit disappointed that no MRAs have accused us of being alien lizard people yet.”

Yeah! When’s it going to be our turn, god dammit!?

heathenbee
heathenbee
11 years ago

“We’ve done everything we could to keep teh eebil wimmynz out of our male sanctum by trolling fem gamers, outing them, cyber-raping them and hate-stalking them, and now they are victimizing us through Wayne La Pierre, and brainwashing us by raising us in single-mother households!!”

Or something. Something wtf.

Some Gal Not Bored at All

@atomicgrizzly

Speaking of blaming mental illness, I was shocked when Lapierre suggested creating a database and tracking anyone with a mental illness.

Ironically LaPierre is more dangerous than literally all of those people. He has both a dangerous ideology and the power to implement it.

I sure hope he doesn’t have that much power. Not only is the idea inhumanly evil, it would be counterproductive. Even fewer people would seek help for mental illness issues if they knew seeking help would stick them in a database. Assuming treatable mental illness has anything to do with most mass shootings (which is a big assumption), a database would prevent us from identifying most “crazies.”

Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

“I’m actually a bit disappointed that no MRAs have accused us of being alien lizard people yet.”

That’s just because they know that we’re Silurians 😀

emilygoddess
emilygoddess
11 years ago

@Cassandra I’m still waiting for “feminists did 9/11”

atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“I’m far more worried about people with the view you just mentioned”

Which one would that be?

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

As wacky as this guy is I still don’t think he’s attained the level of batshittery of the guy who wrote the rant about how women all pee in the street nowadays and soon they’ll be selling woman litter next to the kitty litter at the supermarket.

whataboutthemoonz
11 years ago

@atomicgrizzly

The issue with saying a mass murderer is “crazy” is that people with mental illnesses who have no proclivity for violence (and who are, in fact, more likely to be victims of violence) wind up getting lumped in with a violent assweasel who may not actually have any kind of mental illness.

There is a need to distinguish social ‘crazy’ (something I don’t understand) from medical ‘crazy’ (has a mental illness).

Some Gal Not Bored at All

So far we have feminists ruining: string instruments, ballet, cheer leading, atheism, the Internet, anonymity, comedy, web design, math, sex, marriage, fatherhood, television, cats, guns, comics, SciFi, Fantasy, videogames, being white, movies, and (probably, with love to Diogenes) cars. Any of our trolls want to be actually helpful for once?

Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

Atomicgrizzly — the dude who wants a database // thinks we mentally ill folk need to be tracked.

Flora @ Subspecies (@florasubspecies)

My main Skyrim character is a murderous thief. Then again she is a “female” so maybe arrows to the face are just misandry?

Some Gal Not Bored at All

@whataboutthemoonz

There is a need to distinguish social ‘crazy’ (something I don’t understand) from medical ‘crazy’ (has a mental illness).

This would be so great!

blitzgal
11 years ago

I can be a girl character in Saints Row? I don’t know how this one flew under the radar for me; I LURV open world gameplay.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

Civility! We have destroyed civility with our stubborn refusal to be nice to people who’re full of shit.

atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“Assuming treatable mental illness has anything to do with most mass shootings (which is a big assumption)”

Yes, exactly. Mast of the people who do this sort of thing probably wouldn’t have any kind of diagnosable illness that would prevent them from getting access to weapons.

You would basically just be stigmatizing an innocent part of the population for the sake of a false sense of security.

atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“There is a need to distinguish social ‘crazy’ (something I don’t understand) from medical ‘crazy’ (has a mental illness).”

Yeah, that was the problem with my original post. I meant “crazy” as in people who want to go out and hurt others, but it could be interpreted as crazy = anyone with a mental illness.

whataboutthemoonz
11 years ago

If I pee standing up can I destroy men’s bathrooms?

My vagina destroyed Atlantis, remember.

atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“I can be a girl character in Saints Row? I don’t know how this one flew under the radar for me; I LURV open world gameplay.”

Yeah, the characters are fully customizeable too (except for clothing. You need to buy that).

atomicgrizzly
atomicgrizzly
11 years ago

“My main Skyrim character is a murderous thief. Then again she is a “female” so maybe arrows to the face are just misandry?”

Females can only be sex object in vidya gaems or it’s MISENEDRY!!!

Some Gal Not Bored at All

@atomicgrizzly

Exactly! And, I mean this in the nicest way possible, it is the same kind (not degree by any stretch) of stigmatizing that happens when you imply that you must be mentally ill to think/do certain things. (Like referring to Mr.Pro-Male in the OP or mass shooters as probably mentally ill.)

Falconer
11 years ago

Feminists ruined Dungeons & Dragons! I’m sure they’re responsible for dailies and healing surges somehow! Back when it was manly and untainted by vagina-havers, Dungeons & Dragons was all manly THAC0 and descending Armor Class and you had to step up and be brave and figure out if you wanted this roll of the d20 to be high or if you wanted it to be low, none of this namby-pamby always-roll-high-and-pay-women-as-much-as-men. Oh, and it was no use naming your character until he’d hit about 3rd level or so, because before then there was a high chance you’d have a different one by the end of the session.

CURSE YOU FEMINISTS, IS THERE NOTHING MANLY YOU WILL NOT RUIN?!!

The above was, of course, absolute sarcasm.

heathenbee
heathenbee
11 years ago

“So far, guns, comics, SciFi, Fantasy, videogames, being white, what else?”

Having a penis, I’m sure. I know ruining that for men is on *my* agenda : P

2-D Man
2-D Man
11 years ago

Where did this 47% statistic come from anyway? The linked article asserts it in a link to an article about iPad games and grannies.

I await the inevitable comment from a troll telling us all that whatever games these women are playing just don’t count

Actually, in this context, based on the linked article, they don’t.

Falconer
11 years ago

@Flora: My only Skyrim character is a murderous mage. She’s also a woman. So I guess getting your face gnawed by scamps is misandry.

Falconer
11 years ago

If I pee standing up can I destroy men’s bathrooms?

My vagina destroyed Atlantis, remember.

Those poor urinals don’t stand a chance!