So: many if not most of you have probably heard about the whole #INeedMasculismBecause thing. For those who aren’t: a bunch of Men’s Rights Redditors and other MRAs, inspired by a post on 4Chan, decided to swarm Twitter with #INeedMasculismBecause tweets in response to the #INeedFeminismBecause hashtag. Feminists responded by outswarming the MRAs, flooding their new hashtag with often quite hilarious parodies of MRAspeak, as well as some just plain ridiculousness.
Today, on r/mensrights, MRAs are surveying the damage in a host of different threads, with some plaintively wondering “why is everyone so hostile towards the idea of men having issues,” and others claiming that the hashtag really “started as a caricature of Men’s Rights, in order to lure out the real life caricatures of Radical Feminism.” Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Jezebel has already chronicled some of the funniest parody tweets. And I was thinking of doing the same. I mean, these are pretty good:
Ok, that last one was just a dumb joke about someone ordering a watermelon-flavored drink. I “favorite” a lot of things.
Anyway, catching up on the whole thing last night, I found myself thinking that the parody comments – as funny as some of them were – couldn’t really compete with the loopiness of the real MRA tweets.
So here are some #INeedMasculismBecause tweets by some of my new favorite Twitter MRAs. (I only started going through these really late last night, so a lot of my examples come from the Indian MRAs who were posting prolifically at the time.)
Let’s start with Average Man, who opened a new Twitter account just for the occasion:
Uh, maybe they gave you “less marks” because you don’t know the difference between “less” and “lower.”
Alexander shared these somewhat perplexing thoughts:
The prolific SaveIndianFamilyNGO had all sorts of interesting opinions:
I found myself often perplexed by wnnbl, but I don’t think his troubles with English were the main problem:
I assume these last two are jokes, but honestly, who knows?
I have no idea what Virag was going on about with these tweets:
But this one at least was pretty clear:
Atit seems to have a rather strange idea of what “equality for men” means:
Warrior for Justice also doesn’t seem to like women very much:
Martin Clausen ramped up his largely dormant Twitter account to post these gems:
I don’t quite know what to make of Jackson here, but he seems to be a real MRA.
This is just a theory, but maybe women look at you strangely when you pick up your kids because of that uncontrollable boner you mentioned earlier?
MRAs show once again that they’re beyond parody — or at least indistinguishable from it.
I am genuinely confused by the tweet about freeing the pants.
“World must be panty free for men and women alike”
A panty-free world benefits neither gender.
Either he’s speaking metaphorically or knows about as much about ironing as he does about women.
Speaking of confusing, can anyone explain how masculinism is world peace is the inverse of feminists not speaking about how 1 in 4 teens on the US have STDs?
Not that we don’t want better sex ed or anything…
Oddly enough I know only one person who irons their undergarments, and it’s a man.
(Hi, Dad. You’re weird.)
I wonder if Virag read the misadventures of Tom Martin before he posted about misplaced bum syndrome?
hummis1349 — hey now, a panty free world would benefit people who prefer to go commando…sort of, be more beneficial if commando wasn’t an opinion in a non-panty-free world.
Is the guy who started this hashtag also secretly a class of sociology students?
You can already do that now. Why would commando not be an option in a “non-panty-free world”, which is what we have now and is not a hypothetical situation?
Cloudiah: I’m guessing the MRA’s should pay attention to this one:
Argentie,
Hey now, he said “1 in 4 teen girls“. ‘Cause, you know, feminism makes women (but only women) have sex and then refuses to shame them for it.
(You’re right, though. If anyone would actually care about the girls with STDs – as opposed to using the fact of those girls having STDs as a political weapon – it’d be feminists and other sex-ed advocates)
Hey Sgt Grumbles, your name is coming up as your hummis1349 identity. Might want to fix that so people know it’s you.
Though yeah, I don’t see the benefit of a panty-free world at all. For one thing, it would make menstruation a damn sight messier (not all women can use tampons).
Not to mention that somehow the girls are getting STDs but the boys aren’t.
Nerdypants, that “David Fucktrelle” is a regular commenter on the Spreadhead. And he’s also one of the Spreadhead’s flying monkeys, who will go off and comment on any story he’s told to comment on. I saw him recently pooping on a Spreadhead-linked story that also featured comments from another of the Spreadheaders spouting off about his 12 Step Program for Recovering Feminists.
They travel in packs, those dudes, and that’s real.
Grumbles is back? Is February National Hang Out At A Place Where No One Likes You And Pretend To Be Their Friend Day?
leftwingfox, he he, “love darts.”
I am as mature as the average 3rd grader.
Oh no he didn’t
Actually, I read that one literally, like your second explanation. “Disgusting on” would be an extreme version of hatin’ on, like you might hear in a hip-hop / rap lyric, and I would guess that the sort of person who would end a comment with “and that’s real” probably listens to a lot of hip-hop.
It’s also one of those things where the grammatically correct way of saying it ends up being more complex, so if English is your second language, you might end up saying “disgusting on” rather than, say, “is openly and vocally disgusted by” to get your point across, such as it is. So one might independently come up with both “disgusting on” and “and that’s real” independently of their evolution in the urban vernacular.
Non-standard grammar is the least of their problems, really; it’s their ideas that are odious, after all.
Cassandra, “Free The Pants” is a well known MRM slogan.
As is “First they ignore pants, then they laugh at pants, then they fight pants, THEN PANTS WIN.”
The “True Facts About” videos are hilarious. Mr. HK and I just watched them all.
And today I am wearing pants, so pants have indeed won! At least until it warms up enough for me to want to wear skirts again.
emilygoddess, oh yes he did. The 9th step is my favorite.
Jacob Ian Stalk’s “12-Step Program for Recovering Feminists”
And that’s real.
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Jeez, is Firepower an idiot. Why would I post somewhere as “Fucktrelle?” ??!!
I know I’ve seen the “Fucktrelle” guy elsewhere a couple of times, can’t remember where.
The 11th step is pretty awesome too. By “awesome” I mean terrible, of course.
I see Mr. Stalk’s divorce from reality became final in 12 easy steps.
And that’s real.