Today, some Deep Thoughts about men, women, children, empathy, mini-vans, and patriarchy, from the inimitable Men’s Rights activist and proud misogynist Rob Fedders, whom I found being quoted with approval and even some relish by MGTOWer elder MarkyMark on his little blog today.
Mr. Fedders starts off with a classic misogynist trope: women are like children.
Very few women are capable of empathizing with men. There are about as many women who have the ability to empathize with men as there are children capable of empathizing with adults.
This is what most men fail to grasp, and why they go round and round in circles trying to “explain things” to women.
Women just don’t care. We are here for their purposes, not ours. …
Women will never “care” about men in the same way that men “care” about the wellbeing of women. …
We are designed like this by nature … .
Mr. Fedders offers proof of this evolutionary design by considering a dilemma that preoccupied our ancient ancestors on the African savannah. Namely: who gets the minivan?
You can even see how this works with the way that men and women buy family vehicles. The wife and kids are always put in the best vehicle/mini-van/SUV as possible to “protect them” etc. etc. while the husband drives the run-down piece of crap to work… when the time comes that the husband gets a second vehicle you can usually hear the wife chirping in, “We had to get Joe a new truck… because the last one wasn’t safe and we don’t know what we would do if something happened to him.
That’s the way it has always been and the way it will likely always be.
Apparently, men hunted the mammoth in crappy old pickup trucks.
Fedders returns to his main theme:
Men are a tool to women… a “business.” And to successfully work that business, they must always appear in the needy/attention category. Babies who don’t cry don’t get milk… and women who don’t get attention don’t get taken care of by men. It is an innate feature of humans.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, women have ruled the world from time immemorial.
Women do control society’s values and mores… they lead with what they think is fashionable, and men follow, because by nature we are designed to give women what they want.
And, oh, women invented patriarchy as well.
Women “are” society. What women’s wants are is what society’s want’s are. This is where women are lying when they talk about the dreaded “patriarchy.” The patriarchy only existed because women explicitly approved of it, and endorsed it morally – causing the men to follow suit.
Turns out that patriarchy is basically just a way to make all men slaves to their women:
This is what is happening today too. Most of the anti-feminist battle is not going to be between men and women… it is going to be between women who want a “traditional man” and those who want a collective “government husband.” In both cases, the women are advocating for men to take care of women – with little concern for the man’s wants and needs – one wants a personal slave to serve her & her offspring, while the other wants a slave class to serve women and their offspring in general.
It’s the way human beings are designed. Who cares whether women rule, or if they rule the rulers? The result is the same.
I knew women were sneaky, but I had no idea they were this sneaky.
@ Mine Fujiko
You should helpfully point out that his lack of “I fuck all the bitches” cred within his peer group is not an official disaster area and you are not the Red Cross.
Argenti: It’s Ok, I’m covered.. I have jo and sword, and knives, and walking sticks, and rakes, and shovels, and implements of destruction.
@mine fujiko
Wow. That guy sounds like a real ass. Sorry you have to know him in meatspace 🙁 And sorry that he tried his BS w/ you. Internet hugs if wanted.
Got a paragraph in the back explaining what each one was?
XD
Pop in on Pompous, we’ve got a weird one.
Every time I read one of these MRA posts, I get a knee-jerk “well, I’M not like that” reaction. Like somehow, this stranger on the Internet knows more about me than me, and I have to prove him wrong by thinking of examples of times I was nice to men. It’s super annoying.
Hershele – heheh the difference being that these morons haven’t picked a place where grieving people are at their most vulnerable – the funeral of a loved one – but a site dedicated to mocking them. Target audience fail!
Or, to take the predestination thing literally for a moment, nobody here would want to spend eternity with those losers anyway. Five minutes IRL would be five minutes too long.
Argenti – for some reason your mention of your magic talisman fish coming after the weapons conversation reminded me of that Far Side cartoon where professor thingy was caught by the overnight success of his attempts to cross pirahna with flying fish …
Pecunium – “I’ll wager I am too (and for a liberal I have an odd collection of things what go, “boom!”,).”
Yes, but do you have a collection of things that go bump in the night? 😉
Thanks Marie.What gets me the most of that irritating guy is that I know the group and play Magic:The Gathering with them and they never say that kind of stuff. I asked our mutual friend about it and he says he never hears it. The friend was actually surprised!
And that is what bothers me the most. This guy only does it to the lone female when no one is around. But she is kicking him out of the group sooner than later. She and I are making plans to create a character for me in her Pathfinder campaign. My character is going to kill off this guy’s warrior. She claimed it was a great* way to be rid of him.
*great being subjective of course. I know it isn’t kosher, but I have witnessed it in other groups when they needed one person gone.
@Mine fujiko
Well, good luck with your thingie 🙂
Whoa, hey, sudden Arlo Guthrie references!
My They Might Be Giants Pandora channel often serves me up all 20 minutes of the Alice’s Restaurant epic, and I never skip past it.
Falconer: The motorcycle hangout Alice’s Restaurant (owned by a woman name Alice, named for the song) has a Group W Bench. On Thanksgiving, a few years back, I was riding my motorsickle, with a partner, and we were cold and decided to see if they were open, so we could get some hot cocoa.
They were open,and the entire menu (and the Thanksgiving Day Specials) was free. It was a “pay what you want into the tip-jar, and all that goes to a local food bank” deal.
As we were gearing up, and they were having a celebratory “family meal/drink” they were playing Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.
It was a great day to be cold.
Kitteh’s: Yes, but do you have a collection of things that go bump in the night
Yes, too many.
Pecunium – eek!
We have things that go bump in the night. They’re called Fribbie and Mads. 🙂
“they were playing Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”
In four part harmony? Cuz if you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud (it bothers me how fitting it still is)
Kitteh’s: Mine are internal.
Argenti: They were singing with heart and soul.
Hooboy….are these MRA weirdos from Bizarroworld or WHAT?
Fedders may as well say Black People invent Slavery to enslave Whites & now oft for Affirmative Action because White Unionists abolished Slavery. Yeah as if NO free black or ex-slaves NEVER fought to free their compatriots, along self-serving Unionists who merely want to ‘restore the Union;’ as long as both are against were against pro-slavery Confederate.
After all, you know, Upper-Class Straight Heterosexual Christian Cisgendered Able-Bodied Anglo-Saxon White Males granted those ungrateful ‘other’ groups their rights after the thanksless task of taking up the White Man’s Burden to elevate them. (Bitter Sarcasm here!)