Men! Worried that eveil feminists will destroy your life and your financial future because, apparently, they have that power and love to destroy men’s lives for fun?
Fear no more, because Reddit’s Men’s Rightsers have your back! Mods of Reddit’s RedPill subreddit have started something called the Feminist Victims Fund, which will enable brave freedom fighters to send what will inevitably be a tiny amount of money to that dude who got fired after Adria Richards complained about a sexist joke he made, even though it wasn’t Richards who fired him and indeed she’s said she hopes he gets hired back!
Make sure you donate now, because Reddit’s MRAs will soon grow bored with this bold initiative and it will be completely forgotten, much like the massive Sink Misandry protest in Washington DC last year which actually didn’t even happen, come to think of it.
Here’s the pitch:
Feminism has caused some serious changes to our culture, to our society, and to our lives. We focus on some that are affected more than others, and we give back.
Our goal is to encourage men to speak out, to be men, to not fear oppression and enjoy their freedom of speech. Unfortunately in today’s climate, being a man has become a financial liability. Say the wrong thing in the wrong place and you can find your entire life ruined. Destroyed.
Feminists have fought for equality, but now they’re out for our rights.
They’re destroying us financially. They’re trying to tear apart our families.
We’re saying that enough is enough. No longer should men fear masculinity. No longer should speaking up risk a man his job, career, or family.
It’s time to rise up against the tyranny. It’s time to tell men it’s ok to speak up. We’re here for you. This is the Feminist Victims Fund.
Did I mention that you can donate using BITCOIN? In case you were worried that this thing wasn’t Reddity enough.
As Buzzfeed notes, one of the “board members” of the new fund is pickup guru and predatory douchebag misogynist Roosh V. On his blog yesterday, Roosh happily celebrated the harassment and vilification of Adria Richards in a post with the lovely title “American Feminist Adria Richards Gets Gang Raped By The Internet.”
Speaking of rape, Roosh is also the author of a booklet titled Bang Iceland, in which he admits that, well, he’s kind of a rapist himself. Buzzfeed quotes this rather revealing passage from the book, in which Roosh recalls a “date” he had in Iceland:
While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she legally couldn’t give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can’t say I cared or even hesitated. I won’t rationalize my actions, but having sex is what I do.
What a humanitarian.
@Argenti Aertheri
I love that picture more than I probably should. Where do you find these? XD
@cassandrasays
I’d cuddle a T-rex. Heck, if I lived near the museum I probably would want to ride the triceratops, but I bet they (the museum) give money to a bunch of things I don’t support.
If only there was a museum one could go to just to cuddle fake dinasours.
I haven’t found out, why is kids sitting on a triceratops supposed to convince us creationism exists.
Aw, Marie, you’re so sweet and innocent. I wish we could keep you all innocent of the knowledge of the depths to which greed drives some utter bastards. But that would be withholding knowledge from you, and thus a dick move.
Basically, it boils down to, some believers are afraid of the concept,
so there’s a lot of money to be had telling them that the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old, the story of Genesis is actually 100% true, and all the evolutionists are brainwashing our children in government schools.
So they tried to get creationism taught in schools, but that turned out to be unconstitutional, so at some point they started calling it “intelligent design.” There’s one edition of a creationist textbook out there that did an incomplete search-and-replace and has one instance of “cdesign proponentsists” where they dropped in “design proponents” into the middle of “creationists.”
She did eventually end up being the second person in my life who’s ever given me a bible.
She’d highlighted some verse in the New Testament that she said had to do with friendship, but I couldn’t see it.
The first person gave me an Edgy, Relevant Youth Bible in high school. I said thank you very much.
@falconer
well, thanks for explaining 🙂 Does seem a little strange though, I mean, I assume the bible’s been change some over the years even if people weren’t trying to actively change it, and they want it to be 100% true. Idk just rambling.
Also, could you please not do:
Marie — I’ve seen Jesus riding a velociraptor shirts and such, after that it was just google.
Falconer — “Aw, Marie, you’re so sweet and innocent. I wish we could keep you all innocent of the knowledge of the depths to which greed drives some utter bastards. But that would be withholding knowledge from you, and thus a dick move.”
I know right? Then again, she’s reading MRAs, compared to that fundies aren’t so bad, or maybe I’m just more used to fundies.
Sorry Marie! I, for one, meant it in the tone you’d use to try to spare a younger sibling, which yeah, is probably condescending. So I won’t do it again.
How do you feel about being one of today’s lucky 10,000? http://xkcd.com/1053/
@Argenti Aertheri
It’s okay 🙂 There are some tones that are protective I find fine, and some condescending, since my brain is weird, so I figured I’d just give a little heads up. I’ll just be annoyed if people (who’ve actually read this ;)) keep doing it after I said so.
More informed 😀
For anyone who wants to be one of today’s lucky 10,000 involving oobleck / cheap non-Newtonian liquids to go make in your kitchen — directions! http://www.instructables.com/id/Oobleck/
I wonder how upset my mother will be if she comes home to a bowl of oobleck…
Sorry, Marie. If you asked folks somewhere else not to do that, I missed it. 🙁
@falconer
You’re all good 🙂 This was the first time. And I don’t expect people to remember/ read every comment I type.
lowquacks, huge hugs to you and your mum and Lavender, and request made!
Oooh, religion discussion!
I’m culturally Christian – ie. the parents were – never brought up in it seriously. Had to sit through silly RI classes in primary school, but they were just the parables and didn’t really mean a lot. But my feeling was always discomfort at the idea of the Protestant God being for reals – too cruel and contradictory. Eventually I came to the place where it was almost an ethical duty not to worship such a being, should it exist. About the only thing that deity’s got over Zeus is that you don’t have to keep your eye on the local wildlife in case they’re really a randy god waiting to bone you.
Deist is probably the closest term for my beliefs now, though there’s a lot of stuff in that that I’ve simply no interest in. I believe in a creator spirit – feels silly even capitalising it – or ground of being, but that’s about it. Louis once used the term “a consciousness but not a personality” when we were talking about it, which helped me get away from the anthropomorphic notion of god, something I greatly dislike.
That whole bit about blaspheming the Holy Spirit being the one unforgivable sin makes God sound like an MRA troll. Mustn’t hurt his fee-fees! More seriously, it makes me think of a very insecure little god, one among many, as Yahweh was … me, me, you must worship only me, be afraid of me! (Small Gods, anyone?) Sorry, feller, control-freak insecurity is pretty unattractive in mere humans, it’s a complete turn-off in supposedly all-powerful and all-loving deities.
Lowquakes: I’m keeping you and your kitten and family in my thoughts. I’ll try to pour out to the gods when I get a chance for weal and healing to go your way.
If I’m remembering my Jewish lexography right, YHWH usually has the neuter plural pronoun applied to them, and there are many indications that early Judaism was henotheistic (worships one god without claiming it is the only god) rather than monotheistic. All of the “jealous god” stuff points to this, to, and a lot of the practices were about setting oneself apart and being distinct rather than necessarily being better.
All this is making me wonder if there is a) A god and b) multiple gods.* I think I did hear earlier that yahweh used to be one of many.
Maybe they stabbed the others in the back with an all powerful godstaff and sent them to limbo?**
*I am like super confused on the matter right now.
**Does anybody else play runescape? XD
@kittehs
Sorry to hear that (the upbringing, not your religon :P) I feel like I was raised in a…idk better? chrisitan home. My parents (can’t talk about the church cuz I probably didn’t pay as much attention while I was younger) seemed to focus more on god being loving. Anyway. Just rambling. Tell me if you want me to stop talking.
O_o I have read it and I never will unread it.
@Deoridhe
Thanks for the info. 🙂
XD I am sooo glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.
I’m a polytheist, so of course I think there are many.
They sure are concerned about men being fired thanks to the bitches, particularly in light of the fact they applaud women losing their jobs.
Hrm. I just read the feminists can’t be atheists comments and there was a dood discussing displaying his boner to a bunch of small girl children. I think I’ll take today off.
@marinerachel
That was nwo, wasn’t it? I’m not sure, I was lurking, but that’s my guess.
Yeeeeeeah. I’m laughing right now, not because there was anything funny about it. Sexually abusing children really, really isn’t, regardless of the IT’S A COMPLIMENT/STOP THE BODY SHAMING defence of exposing your boner to a bunch small kids (and the fact they have a boner around a bunch of small kids.) I’m laughing because it was one of the most absurd things ever written and I’m really fucking confused right now. It’s more like the laughter of an orang-utan than the lulz.
And he kept referring to erections as “woodys”. Really.
I’m just kind of in a state of “…… wut” right now.
Jeeeeeesus fuck, man.
Re bitcoins: I mined a few bitpennies back in the day; I think the idea is rather intriguing but the implementation is critically flawed for the reasons others have already brought up. Primarily:
1) A truly anonymous system of transactions is inherently open to abuse, and
2) Deflationary currencies don’t work because there’s a disincentive to spend them.
Salutations to the manbooz nation. God that’s awkward. Anyhoodle, I just want to let you all know that there are so many lurkers here that really appreciate what David and yourselves do to cut through the bang-my-head-on-the-wall-make-them-stop, awfulness that is the mrm. I refuse to capitalize because they do not deserve it. I’m writing my dissertation on the rampant, insidious nature of these groups and you all have been a fraking lifeline even though you don’t know it.Sorry for breaking the thread, the whiskey compelled me to say thanks!