Ok, class project!
As regular readers of this blog know all too well, the manosphere has a rather distorted version of feminism. Indeed, MRAs, MGTOWers and other misogynists spend a lot of their timedoing battle against feminists of their own imagining, whose alleged beliefs only have a tangential relationship with anything you or I know as feminism. It’s not always clear if MRAs know they’re battling straw feminists or not, and I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to figure that out.
In the meantime, I’m trying to assemble a little guide to this straw feminism.
I’m wondering what you all think are its central tenets?
(Specific examples and links, to posts and/or discussion on this blog or elsewhere, would be great if you can provide them.)
Take a look at Kate Beaton’s amazing “Straw Feminist” cartoon if you need inspiration!
Ironically, the gang over on the Men’s Rights subreddit had a whack at the “straw feminist” question the other day. They didn’t do too well, with the OP basing his “refutation” of accusations that MRAs spend much of their time attacking straw feminists … on a list that incorporated some not-actually-real feminist quotes. (I factchecked a similar list of EVIL FEMINIST QUOTES here.)
Yeah, it was said before…thanks for not reading past the first page, Phil.
And by the way, Straw feminists thinks every woman everywhere is good and never does anything wrong. All men are bad, and do everything wrong.
@Some Gal:
+1. Radfems aren’t raring to ride the “cock carousel,” Phil. Or to spermjack. Also,
Ohes noes 100+?? Most of them pithy little things? The strain!1!! Totally not worth reading 100+ comments before accusing everyone of omitting something.
We could pretty much redirect the whole necro conversation straight here.
Could one say the trolls are necro or maybe zombies even in live threads? Their comments seem to come from the Typing Dead* at the best of times.
*As in the walking dead, not the Grateful Dead. Though who knows, maybe zombies who type are grateful?
I don’t know, I was thinking of that awesome edutainment game, Typing of the Dead when I read that.
LOL I should have known there’d be a game with a name like that. It’s almost like Rule 34.
Straw feminists prevent boys from succeeding at school.
Actually the rot of radical is root. So the meaning of radical feminism is not extreme but rather means to go to the root. The root of the problem is defined as patriarchy.
Straw feminists are a puzzle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a scented fucking candle.
Speaking of The Simpsons, straw feminists are responsible for falsely accusing Homer J. Simpson of a crime he didnt commit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI-fcc5iv2k
All joking aside, I love Kate Beaton.
That is all. =)
Here is an o to toss up there and turn rot into root.
It’s based on that classic game everyone always played in the movie theater while they waited for their movie, House of the Dead. It’s a pretty weird but funny game. Much like House of the Dead.
What possible difference would it have made if you had read all the comments? zip, zero, nada, is my guess.
“It’s based on that classic game everyone always played in the movie theater while they waited for their movie”
Ahem, who? 😉
I am Dagrabbit’s YouTube embedding genie:
Strawfeminists spend their 20s having endless sex with jocks and bad boys, because cock carousel. The non-asshole, non-jock guy they married is just the beta slave they roped in to pay the bills. (This was all said about one prominent young feminist recently.)
Was it me? Because that shit is true.
Feminism is encouraging deliberate single motherhood through unplanned pregnancies which means that nearly ALL THE KIDS will grow up to be poor, lazy, drug addled, alcoholic abusers who wind up in prison. Only the mere presence of testosterone/full grown penis can prevent this.
Also, no man should be held to any responsibility for helping to raise and or provide for his children.
No man EVER gets custody of his kids, even if the ex is a psychotic abuser, so don’t even ask the courts about it.
Thanks, Cloudiah. =)
Feminists believe there are zero physical differences between the sexes. Which means feminists believe the average woman can bench press 250 lbs.
No feminist can care about any man, for any reason at all. We completely lack the human trait of empathy.
Feminists are feral. We’ll attack anyone over the tiniest provocation, and our wrath is completely out of proportion to the percieved crime.
Straw feminists hate religion because it keeps them in their place.
Straw feminists love religion because they secretly run all the world’s religions, using deluded men as fronts.
The main thing straw feminists find oppressive is a man opening a door for a woman. They’ve been known to scream at, even becoming violent with, any man who dares to open a door for a woman. No self-respecting straw feminist would ever say ‘thank you’ or anything, but would much rather assume the worst! That, rather than being polite, this door-opening man is just trying to oppress her.
Feminists get their marching orders from Cosmopolitan magazine.
Anything feminine is feminist.
Feminists are just looking for attention. A black eye is a woman’s way of saying “Waah! Pay attention to me!”
Sorry. Just threw up a bit in my mouth on that last one. This has not been a happy day, and my brain is in a very black place right now.
So I leave with a sillier note.
Feminists are apparently powered by sloth and bon-bons.
twomoogles: Oooh, good one.
Straw feminism pressured me into changing my Gravatar to a picture of my cat.
The evil power knows no bounds.
Straw feminists want to get rid of all restricted-age video games like first-person shooters and only have games like Wii Sports or Kinect Adventures.
Straw feminists want video game content dumbed down in MMORPGs because female’s can’t play their characters adequately.