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.
“If … rape – magically cease[s] to be harassment and become[s] the foundations of a passionate new romance occasionally…” then you g’night be living in an alternate reality.
And that’s for real.
Deoridhe — airlift! w00t!
Bear acquired. What do I do with bear?
Okay, I’m supposed to be working on something and staying of MBZ but I just wanted to post the cutest/funniest gif I’ve seen all week.
That cat looks like I did when I read Stalk’s 12 step program. (David, Stalk got to that article after Price wrote about one of the pictures on Spreadhead. Predictably, they had a big problem with the dude whose sign said he enjoyed being pegged by his girlfriend.)
nerdypants: Firepower also thinks his saying it is so = it is so; and that appending mal mots addenda to the comments people makes will make the people hes insulted want to comment.
Is short, the stupid is strong in this one.
And The feminist facists show they are unable to leave men’s spaces alone, and they have to troll them to deal with their own sense of insecuiryt. They are so threatened by even a discussion of misandry! So angry that men hvae even a space to discuss men’s issues. This little trolling episode shows only one thing: you hate men. You cannot even abide the thought of confronting misandry. And the fat 600-pound slug who runs this site: fuck you.
cloudiah, that gif! 😀 Poor kitty.
Fatrelle, we don’t hate men. Show us where do.
And get fucked, everywhere on the internet is pretty much a men’s space, and if by some chance it’s not, you turds try to make it all about you. You delicate flowers really need to get over yourselves.
P.S.–misandry is not a thing.
P.P.S.–fuck off.
Alos, Fatrelle, if the best insult in your arsenal is “you’re fat,” then you need to step up your sad game, son.
—-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.—–
#INeedMasculismBecause women are allowed to wear whatever clothing they want, while men are hamstrung into little boxes.
^^This is when #INeedMasculism is for. Discussion of men’s issues. It’s not all about women, all the time, and Little Davey just can’t stand that.
——-And get fucked, everywhere on the internet is pretty much a men’s space,——–
Wrong. From my vantage point, women-coddling safe spaces abound. Men are marginalized if they don’t nod along with the men=evil woman=perfect dogma.
I finished working! Working on a Saturday! Sigh.
Fatrelle is a very cowardly troll who poops on threads but then never engages with the responses. It’s the equivalent of him putting his hands over his ears and shouting “I can’t hear you” over and over.
And I see we have a gunlover necroing an old thread, but you all dealt with hir very well.
G’night all.
Fatrelle has quite the hate-crush on David, doesn’t he? Funny, isn’t it – one of the favourite themes with drive-by trolls like him is that David runs this blog in some strange quest to get female attention/sex. Yet the trolls are the ones whining about not having it, or making up tales about PUAs being so well-supplied with sex … methinks they’re not only stuck in this fantasy version of the blog, but envious of it. It’s like the whole Bad Boys thing: apart from the likely racist elements when that’s coming from USian MRAs, I get the feeling any bloke whose company women actually enjoy would qualify as a bad boy. Being a decent and likable human being is a totally baffling concept for these tossers.
Oh fatrrelle, how has your escaping buttock problem gone? Are you by any chance a ferivid pua or just a sad sack mra who thinks we’re all out to get you with our hard and boney chairs?
Ps my husband thinks you suck the hairy banana (classic aus saying for sad sacks).
But kitteh, all us wimens should be happy to bend over for these fine specimens. If feminism hadn’t crippled our real tendencies we’d be on the rape bus 24/7.
——Fatrelle has quite the hate-crush on David, doesn’t he? Funny, isn’t it – one of the favourite themes with drive-by trolls like him is that David runs this blog in some strange quest to get female attention/sex.———-
If it aint broke dont fix it, that’s my motto.
See, lardsacks like Little David have the golden brick road to the divine yoni cut off, so they have to take a roundabout shortcut, via smarmy supplication. Davey here isn’t special, he’s just one of many.
Pecunium:
His insults are hilarious. He accused me at one point of being someone named Sofia, an unrequited love of his apparently, some ex-blogger from the Special-Snowflake-asphere.
Unfortunately, after daring us all to come and respond to his blog post (along with a suitably condescending promise that he won’t censor us) he is now putting my comments in the moderation queue.
Also, check out his friend Ryu. He has a blog for teaching White Nationalists science and maths. So the White race will be properly equipped for future leadership.
… yeah.
nerdypants: I wondered how long the “open forum” would last.
I’m struck by the fact that feminist “trolling” on Twitter is making mocking comments about masculinism, but the people who troll feminists use death threats.
Mocking, witty comments versus death threats….
CLEARLY the feminists are in the wrong!
Reblogged this on iheariseeilearn.
Hi! Just stepping in with some thoughts about the Indian guy’s references to pants. I think he’s thinking of the Pink Chaddi campaign by the marvelously named Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women who sent pink underpants to the leader of Sri Ram Sena (think an Indian Taliban.) Wiki link. I guess he’s imagined that the campaign involved going commando when really it was kind of a pun, because that’s the kind of response someone who’s freaked out by women’s bodies would have.
If you assert that you have the right to dress as you please and that men should be able to control their sexuality, honour their right to be shielded from yours.
… Owly???
The thing where women are supposed to take the law into their own hands by attacking other women reminds me of him, too. Remember when he demanded that we prove our commitment to human rights by forming lynch mobs and beating up random women in the streets?
Anyway, I don’t want to be “shielded” from men’s sexuality. If men want to walk around in sexy outfits, that’s awesome. I don’t get this MRA thing where people looking attractive in public is some kind of national crisis.
I like how Stalk’s second item on his list of things women need to do to fix themselves basically says to ignore lists of things they need to do to fix themselves. I guess he can claim success, because any woman who can think for herself has already stopped taking his list seriously and has gone out with women 4 bear.
And that’s real.
Well, it’s a crisis because women are looking sexy AT men, and that’s a crime unless they put out. And expecting MRAs to do more than change their jocks once a week or have the occasional shower is obviously totally unreasonable.
Of course the whole bit about women’s sexuality = clothes and men’s sexuality = uncontrollable urge to fuck every time they get a boner is totally Owly.
No-Feminist-Being 12-Step Plan (For Ladies Only)
1. Just straight-up hate yourself.
2. Think for yourself, provided that what you’re thinking is, “Man, I sure hate having rights, and men need more foot rubs.”
3. Stop having normal human dimensions and flaws. Confusing!
4. Women don’t get shit on by society enough, so randomly be an asshole to other women to make up the balance.
5. Disbelieve all media except the approved sources I’m not going to tell you about.
6. Did I mention being an asshole to other women? Because this is VERY IMPORTANT.
7. Accept your inferiority to men. After all, you can’t produce sperm, but men can make eggs any time they like. Shut up I totally can.
8. Be super nice to boys. Otherwise you’ll invaginate them, which is the kind of awesome word a girl would never come up with.
9. Don’t go places where there are men hanging out. You’ll get cooties all over. I see you ladies trying to get into our beer bars and Supreme Courts. KNOCK IT OFF LADIES.
10. Never criticize a man for anything, or try to leave when he starts screaming at you.
11. You know, if you’d just give rape a chance, you’d realize how fun it is.
12. Fighting for men’s rights is hard. Can’t you bitches do it for me?
Yeah, I’ll get right on that, sugar.
“Invaginate” sounds kind of like what’s usually referred to as envelopment. I’m thinking that most straight men would not thank angry MRA dude for encouraging women not to do that any more.
Is @Man4Average East Anglian, or does he just have unusual and unsustainable tastes?