Life is tough for dudes in our evil misandryarchy. Even dudes who just want to help littler dudes find themselves blocked by evil women.
Take, for example, the sad tale of a public-spirited MGTOWer who calls himself TheDisgruntledGentleman, and his thwarted attempt to join the Big Brother/Big Sister program. No, not the TV show, or the creepy dystopian leader/voyeur from 1984 — the mentoring program that pairs adults with at-risk kids. Let’s let him explain:
So, instead of just hand wringing about how males are targeted and denigrated within all aspects of life, I decided one way of trying to help would be to join the Big Brother Big Sister program. The first meeting I went to explained that there are twice as many boys looking for a match than there are girls. They said it was partly because more females than males volunteer. They didn’t mention how most boys have a mother in there life but no father because of the misandric divorce courts but I digress…
Oh, dear. We’re not off to a good start here.
Anyways, as part of the process, I had a one on one interview with a female member of the organisation to assess if I was suitable to be a Big, and if so, they wanted to know about me so they could match me with a little. I mentioned that I carry a firearm everywhere I legally can, I also wanted to know what protections were in place to protect me from unfounded accusations, and I expressed how I couldn’t be with a Little if his father had been forcibly removed from his life because of the vindictive actions of the mother. I think the final one sealed my fate however.
Yeah, why on earth would the program reject a gun-toting, woman-hating, self-described “disgruntled gentleman” whose only question for the organization, apparently, was about what would happen if he was accused of child molestation or abuse?
I’m not particularly upset at being rejected because after looking into it more, the activities deemed appropriate to do with your Little seem somewhat feminine, but it just further hammers home that even when you try to help because there are boys out there screaming for some positive male role models in there lives, you’re only allowed to show them masculine things that females deem are appropriate. It just makes me sick.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but you’re not actually a positive role model for anyone.
In the comments at MGTOWforums.com, where TheDisgruntledGentleman posted his tale of woe, others stepped forward to offer their own, er, critiques of the Big Brother program. “I’m really not surprised by the outcome of this at all,” wrote Mpav8r.
Basically, for our purposes, without intending any disrespect to the pious, we can compare the Big Brother service to a kind of prostitution agency, specializing in providing uber-manginas to attend to the fatherly duties of the harlot’s absconded alpha daddy, or the cuckolded beta wallet in exile; furthermore these manginas are free-range certified not to be paedophiles, or likely to have any real parental influence in lieu of the mother’s. Big Brothers is basically a volunteer organization that makes the logical connection between single moms and pathetic beta chumps trying to score brownie points, and attempts to exploit it for the perceived benefit of the children.
Most pathetic is the fact that these volunteers know for a fact that they will not be getting any tail as part of the deal. Unless you have a bleeding heart for abandoned bastards, you’d have to be a fool to waste your time on such a fool’s enterprise.
Based on what you said in your post, I would wager that the women in charge likely factored you as an armed misogynist pedophile with a chip on his shoulder. I would have gone wearing an old navy outfit and talked about flower arranging and self-esteem.
Relic, meanwhile, suggested that the best way to help out young boys today is for MGTOWers to keep being the woman-hating assholes they already are. Well, that’s a rough paraphrase. He phrased his advice slightly differently:
For me personally, I have zero interest in helping single mothers raise their kids. If she wanted a positive influence from a male, maybe she and her kind would not fuck us over at every turn so dad stays in the home. It’s only when society passes the breaking point things will get better for men. Stalling this only prolongs the suffering. Until then, I’m in the shadows.
I’m willing to bet that many men have been falsely accused of crimes trying to give back to these programs. No fucking way I would expose myself to that nightmare to help a single mother. Allow the whole thing to come crashing down while putting good information out there for truth seekers to get educated. It’s the absolute best thing we can do for boys.
I do agree that the best thing MGTOWers can do for boys is to stay as far away from them as possible.
@hellkell
Hooray for Sharpies! (Sorry Argenti.)
@Kiwi Girl
The movie of The Men Who Stare at Goats is, according to the boyfriend, “not as good, not as serious mainly.” I’ve only seen the movie and it was not terrible, but I wouldn’t really recommend it to anybody. If you have access to it for free (like on Netflix Instant or television or something), you probably won’t regret seeing it if you have it on while doings something else. That’s the best I can say about it.
VarpAL is an odd duck. I’m not going to stink up Scalzi’s place outing his past behaviors here, since John can police his own place just fine. I am not sure I believe he will kick in, and the reflected approval the promise gets is what I think his actual motive is.
As to his being honest… I don’t think it is in him to be honest. Perhaps his non-net life is different, but I suspect not.
The book is strange, the moreso for having some semblance of truth to it. I don’t see how it could be made into a comprehensible movie. The actual facts are so strange as make it impossible to present as a plausible narrative. It would have to look like surrealist agitprop.
By which I meant, “The Men Who Stare At Goats”
Nice one!
Apropos of nothing, I think we might all have a laugh at this old ad.
It’s an ad for Hush Puppies shoes from the 70s or 80s. The copy at the top reads, in big white letters, ATTENTION MALE CHAUVINIST PIGS.
Then there’s a photo of a collection of four shoes in different styles. Two of them are in shades of brown and cream, the one in the front is red and blue, and the one in the back is PURPLE AND GOLD. Purple and gold!
The copy at the bottom, in really tiny black print, says
It’s like, the last gasp of (a colorblind) Don Draper.
@Falconer
I particularly like how the “libs” are assumed to be negging the rugged, masculine, virile men. Name-calling seems like a particularly unnuanced and (even more) childish way of negging, but what can you expect from women, amIright? *bro high five*
Did you miss David’s year-old challenge, resurrected yesterday?
Five glorious manboobzers have answered the challenge. You guyz are hilarious.
Falconer, that ad is also hilarious.
@cloudiah
Thanks for posting that! I hadn’t seen the last one with the flying bear. Awesomesauce!
The word “virile” never fails to make me laugh derisively.
A lot of post-apocalyptic stories and games are set in Vegas, creating a contrast between the setting’s past opulence and its present decay (same reason such stories aren’t usually set in Anytown USA; there wouldn’t be enough contrast). So I thought Dubai would be the perfect city to enhance the contrast even further.
It’s also a very multicultural setting with interesting population dynamics, which is fun for both the players and me, and I will always gravitate to a setting that isn’t full of white people.
Also what Emily said. Islands shaped like maps of the world, littered with wrecked ships and detritus? Indoor ski slopes, now exposed to the elements and filling with sand?
That ad is awesome in its awfulness, Falconer.
Except that Don was never quite that out of touch. I can see Duck writing that while Peggy says “no, no” and gets overruled. (Iz Mad Men fan.)
Flying bears! And I too would love to see you unlurk, augochlorella if you want.
Yeeeah… I’m going to guess he was rejected less for the misogynistic comments than for the part where he demanded that BB/BS cover for him if he abused his Little Brother.
You know how I can tell you’re not actually a member of a cruelly oppressed group? Your idea of doing volunteer work is marching into the volunteer office, pointing out all the guns you’re carrying, laying down a list of demands, mentioning that you expect them to clean up any little messes with the law you might get into, refusing to accept most of the assignments that might be handed to you, and then flouncing off to the Internet to complain about how unappreciated you are. And, um, never doing any volunteer work.
A large number of the commenters agree it’s a shame that young boys don’t have Proper Manly Role Models in their lives, but they certainly can’t do anything about it, because caring for children is sissy.
Actually I guess my mom got a lot of that back in the day, the “you women’s libbers just can’t admit to yourselves that what you really want is to be dominated by a Real Man like me” bull poop. To which I ask, why? Why wouldn’t they just admit that they wanted to be owned by somebody if that’s how they really felt? What did fighting for equality get them, except ridicule and, in some cases (not so much for my white upper-middle-class straight mom) serious danger?
I guess I’ll add that to my ever-growing Inexplicable Things Misogynists Assure Me Women Do All The Time list. Here it is so far:
Inexplicable Things Misogynists Assure Me Women Do All The Time
– Vindictively arouse geeks they don’t want to have sex with
– Vindictively choose to date abusive men (in this case, the women’s malice is directed at all men everywhere that they are not currently dating)
– Vindictively fool men into fathering children with them in order to extort from men less than half of the cost of raising those children to adulthood
– Coyly pretend to want legal and social equality despite actually finding their subjugation totally fun and sexy
So I was looking at some of the other MGTOW threads (WHY???) and I noticed that one of their derogatory words for women seems to be ‘ankles.’ Anyone know the origins of that? Don’t get me wrong, I prefer it to c—, but it seems odd.
Women have ankles and now that we all wear slutty slutty clothes you can see them? Anke-biters as a slang term for children? Who knows?
Ankle-biters. What I wrote looks like I’m trying to suggest that someone bit an ankh.
Don’t do that, you might hurt your teeth.
@cloudiah
I looked it up on Urban Dictionary.
(Word censored by me.)
Despite being extremely sexist, it does appear to be a gender-neutral term.
Link: http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=ankles
I remember that thing about ankles – I think it was what passes for a witticism in MRA land, something about being lower than a c***.
Ninja’d again!
@The Kittehs’
Yours is more impressive since you did it from memory.
At least the long-term memory’s still working! 😀