MRAs can now shampoo away the grey in their neckbeards in just five minutes with Just For Men’s Rights Activists special neckbeard formula gel! Now with a new, angrier formula!
I found this faux trading card on Reddit’s AgainstMensRights subreddit, which is devoted to skewering the MensRights subreddit. The OP says his girlfriend got it at an art show, but alas I do not know where that show was or from whom she got it.
Click on the pic for a bigger version, in which you can see that this formula comes in Fedora Brown, and was “voted best for neckbeards by a panel of elder misogynists.”
Ironically, the beards depicted on real Just for Men boxes aren’t much more believable than the one on the parody box.
Also ironically, I am sporting a bit of a neckbeard today. No bulging veins in my forehead, though.
How did neckbeard become an insult and become associated with MRAs? I was surprised to find out neckbeards were even a real look after hearing about it from here.
How did he get that lipstick kiss on his collar?
I always thought it was when a guy had trouble growing hair on his face, but it just grew on his neck and sideburny region, and he didn’t bother to shave it. So shorthand for someone young and/or not very manly (ie not enough testosterone) and not well groomed. I mean, the way neckbeard is usually used is not implying a man with a full bushy beard.
So like this. Though googling neckbeard images shows that a full beard just on the neck was popular in olden-times, but a lot of the pictures seem to be people wearing neckbeards ironically in reaction to the neckbeard meme.
PS. the card is awesome. I hope the artist finds it here and links us to the rest of their work.
Love that pic. It looks like Elam posed for it.
Neckbeard was already an insult. Check Urban Dictionary’s entry on it. It’s easy enough to transfer it from nerds (and the gaming community is notoriously misogynistic) to MRAs, given their attitude that women have to be perfect, waxed, size-0 virgin porn stars, whereas men aren’t even required to be clean. (See the idiot who posted on YouTube about how unfair it is that women don’t like having to clean shitstains of men’s pants.)
I can’t imagine a word like neckbeard not being an insult, even if I’d never read any definitions.
First time I saw a neckbeard (and I’d never heard the term then) it was a young guy with very scanty, long hair growing from his throat and stopping at his chin. It looked like a giant armpit. Gross.
That makes sense. Thank you Kim.
I notice the card has “fedora brown” on it and that reminds me of how fedoras are sometimes associated with MRAs too. I was under the impression that male geeks are associated with fedoras too. Is this some overlap? Before I ever heard of MRAs sexist nice guy geeks were a morbid interest of mine.
Morbid interest LOL!
I don’t know how that association came about, or if it’s a particularly US thing. The only guys I see wearing fedoras (or what I’d call trilbies – this rather than this) are more like hipsters; they’re sharply dressed and look good, something I’d not expect of MRAs or NiceGuys(TM).
It bugs me because my other half wears a fedora and he is as far from a nerd, geek, NiceGuy(TM), MRA, or hipster, for that matter, as one could get! 😀
Ah, that’s perfect! Thank you so much for that explanation, ugly as it is, but now I understand how it’s an insult. That state of mind has always bothered me; slovenly men complaining about how beautiful women should love them for their personalities while judging woman by their looks alone.
My pleasure! 🙂
@Kitteh’s
Not one’s usual image of French royalty, but very spiffy! 😀
I own a Trilby for reasons of spiffiness, and so does my boyfriend, but he has a very large head and can’t wear it. I tried to compliment him and said his head was so large because it was full of brains, but he said that made me sound like a zombie. 😛
The hat has been converted into a cat stand.
LOL about the zombie!
Yup, Himself was slumming it in Degraves St that day. 😉 He puts up with a lot when I’m on shoe-shopping expeditions, though I blame him for one pair that looked great but never did break in.
I think trilbies and fedoras can look great – I can see you wearing one, CWS, they’d suit your Dr Who style. Most of the people I see wearing ’em look very good.
And of course one mustn’t forget how damn good Johnny Depp looks wearing one. (Okay, he has an unfair advantage, but still.)
How can the hat have been converted into a cat stand? Isn’t everything a cat stand anyway?
Yup, any excuse to post more hubby pics! 😀
And so I fail in using blockquotes right after saying to myself, “I shall be extra careful with blockquotes around here”.
You have fallen prey to the blockquote monster! It was prolly listening when you said that. But congratulations, you can now stand tall and say I HAVE PASSED MY MANBOOBZ INITIATION.
I have one of those scratching board things (about 1.5 inches thick) and the cat just knocks it over and sleeps on it. Then she scratches the couch it is normally propped against.
Don’t forget though that not everything is a cat stand. Some things are in the way and must be knocked onto the floor. (Now that is a category that, for my cat, includes everything she can physically shove and possibly some things she can’t.)
Yes, I certainly can, Kitteh! It’s only a matter of time after one begins to post on Man Boobz!
He stopped enticing the cats away from the hat and onto surfaces such as the bed/futon/armchair/lap/airbed. (Cats approve of airbeds. “Hmm. This room has been transmogrified into a bed.” *paw padding* “Yes. This is pleasing to me. You may now commence your worship.”)
Mads and Fribs like sleeping on theirs, which are usually lying on the floor. Mads also likes having wrestling matches with them, and gave herself a fright recently when she flipped it up against the clothes horse.
She’s a couch destroyer, too. We thought our couch had been through the worst when Magnus crossed over, but nope, Mads is just as bad. Last time I’m getting a tapestry couch.
Cat stands, cat beds, cat gravity demonstrators …
This entire house is a cat stand.
Love the trading card.
On totally unrelated trivia, my new ring arrived yesterday.
@The Kittehs’
That is a beautiful ring! I’m a little jealous. Can I ask where you got it and if they have necklaces like that? 🙂
Nice ring!
Truth be told, the only thing that kept me from joining the MRM was my beard’s refusal to grow any further downwards than about a fussy/businesslike high neckline. Nice work, lowquacksbeard.