This just in: Men’s Rights Activists are some of the most gullible nincompoops in the history of ever.
The latest evidence of this? The regulars on the Men’s Rights subreddit were fooled by an obviously fake “screenshot” of an article from Jezebel that had been altered to make it look like a Jezebel staff writer thinks that paternity fraud is justifiable as a way to fight patriarchy.
No, seriously, the Reddit MRAs actually thought that Anna North of Jezebel had written that “the ability to lie about your children’s parentage is one way to break the rule of fathers.”
Here’s the “screenshot.” And here’s the original thread, which has been deleted from the Men’s Rights subreddit but which is still up, just not reachable from the subreddit.
The irony in many of the comments is off the charts. “It’s Jezebel, of course they think this way,” writes Riesea. “Wow,” says actorsspace. “If Jezebel had a sense of humor, I would suspect them of trolling.”
Blueoak9 — what happened to the original eight? — is stunned that even the evil feminists would sink so low:
There are, of course, a few teensy clues that North’s supposed quote about “break[ing] the rule of fathers” is a big fat fake (as are some of the others in that “screenshot”).
One is that nobody at Jezebel writes or thinks like that.
And second, there’s the tiny fact THAT THE REAL ARTICLE IS UP ON JEZEBEL AND IT DOESN’T SAY ANY OF THAT SHIT AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO READ IT FOR FUCK’S SAKE IT’S RIGHT HERE.
In fact, Anna North, the author of the Jezebel article, makes an argument that’s the exact opposite of the one attributed to her in the “screenshot.” Challenging a writer in the London Times who had argued that “the ability to pass a child off on a man was a potent female weapon,” North countered that such a stance was not only morally questionable but also pretty antifeminist:
I’d rather “make male claims to omnipotence absurd” by, say, being economically and politically equal to men — not by making them raise babies that aren’t theirs.
Now, you might wonder why exactly the Men’s Rights crowd on Reddit was reading a screenshot of a Jezebel article and not an actual Jezebel article. Well, that’s because the Men’s Rights subreddit has banned all direct links to Jezebel and other Gawker media sites because the MRAs are still mad about that Violentacrez thing.
Yes, the subreddit that links in its sidebar to a site — A Voice for Men — that not only has offered thousand dollar bounties for the personal information of its feminist enemies but that also carries an open call to firebomb courthouses and police stations in its “activism section” is still pig-biting mad about Gawker’s “doxing” of the man who helped to ruin the lives of countless teenage girls by founding and protecting Reddit’s Jailbait subreddit and dozens of other noxious subreddits.
And so someone was able to use this fact to exploit MRA ignorance and paranoia about feminism and make the inhabitants of the Men’s Rights subreddit look like fools.
Again.
Or some MRA with zero ethics wanted to make feminists look bad and failed utterly. I think this is less likely, but with MRAs, anything is possible.
When you’re done reading the original discussion of the fake article on the Men’s Rights subreddit, you can read the discussion there about how they were trolled. Including the comments from this person who thinks that “even if it’s a troll… so what? It’s still presenting an opinion that many a feminist has held.” Straw feminism is REAL! And this person (with dozens of upvotes) who thinks they should just ban all links to all feminist blogs because, hey, what’s the point in knowing anything at all about something you talk about constantly?
EDIT: Thanks to the AgainstMensRights subreddit, I was able to find the link to the original banned post, and so I’ve put the link (and some comments from the discussion) into the post above.
Nope, straight to ’11 KM!!!!!’
Because they got scared we were on to them.
This would never happen, but if I were to hypothetically find out that my dad wasn’t my biological father, it wouldn’t change a thing for me*. He’s a good person, very kind, intelligent, and has always been there for me. He tells a lot of corny jokes, but that’s legally required for men past the age of 65. That’s what it means to be parent, not sperm or eggs.
*Okay, I would be confused because I look so much like him, but other than that, no big deal.
The 11-km-wide yards belongs in the Manboobz Hall of Fame.
The problem with raising a child that isnt yours is that teenagers, especially boys, tend to be such utter ungrateful ingrates.. Once and when these kids hit puberty, and you attempt to try to discipline the adolescent rebel without a cause so he won’t become either a juvenile delinquent menace to society or a slacker bum burden on the taxpayer, they’ll just say to you “you’re not my father!” And if you really aren’t , what do you have to say to that then, eh? The average man lives with the instinctive subconscious/unconscious fear that his son will eventually kill him someday in order to replace him, and the only consolation is that at least the boy is his own flesh and blood, the new and improved version 2.0 replacing the old and obsolete version 1.0. But if the boy’s not really yours, then you are deprived of even this most merest and meager of psychic balms. Unless of course you have a mentor-protege, master-pupil relationship with the boy, but what if you don’t? What then, eh? The kid’s not yours genetically, he’s not yours spiritually, he’s leeching off your time, money, and energy —- your blood, sweat, and tears — he’s going to come gunning after you either when you’re asleep or when you’re back is turned and he’s still going to take away all your stuff when you die, damn, what a proverbial white elephant, except an elephant can be tamed and domesticated. Now if a guy willingly lets himself get trapped with the age old ball-and-chain with his eyes wide open that there was extra baggage, that’s one thing, but to be so swindled by human cuckoos, well, the hell with that!
Breadmold continued pounding away on his keyboard, his face turning shades of purple. “Ban me! Ban me! You ignorant anti-feminist pro-MRA keyboard warriors? I am feminism!”
His phone rang.
He knew who it would be. His lifelong best friend, Catwoman. “Selina!”
“I told you, my name’s not Selina–did you see that! He banned both of us! Just because we live next door!”
Breadmold sighed, pushing his keyboard away. “I think I was getting through to them, too. Any minute now they would have realized that they had become the entire Men’s Rights Movement, just by attempting to counter them so vociferously, and they would have all shut up and gone away. We were so close! And it’s all bullshit, anyway. We can’t be the same person.”
She was silent for a second. “Breadmold… you are 11 kilometers away, aren’t you?”
“What? You know I am. Halfway across the city. I mean, it’s practically next door, for Toronto… Just a hour or two by bus.”
“And you’re not actually in the treehouse in the backyard stealing wifi from my neighbor?”
His crimson face went white as a sheet in a heartbeat. Shit. “N…no.”
“It’s just… I can see you. From the window.”
“It’s those damned feminist men’s-righters!” he whined. “Mom and dad wouldn’t let me spend all my time online fighting them, and I needed a new batcave–er, base of operations, and–”
“…is that a piano?”
“Look, I’m trying to break stereotypes here. You know that stereotypes are the most awful evil, upholding the patriarchy, matriarchy, and all that stuff. If I’m living in a treehouse with a piano, that’s about as far from a stereotype as I can think of, okay?”
She was silent for a very long minute. “Yeah, sounds totally legit. Now, we’re going to need to break back into Manboobz and blow their minds. They said something about socking. Do you know anything about that?”
“That depends.”
“It depends?”
“Are you talking into a phone or a loaf of bread?”
She checked. “Definitely a phone. Kind of yeasty, but definitely a phone.”
“Okay. Then no.”
katz: It’s possible and I like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but then why not just say so? In fact, why not say so even if you are roommates?
Because it ruined the illusion. The idea was (I think) two people (one male, one female) who both had similar ideas; independently. If they were in the same place, (say a Bridgehead) that falls apart.
Actually, were it me, I’d probably say I was at my local coffee shop, and that my friend had dropped in and I told her about the mess on manboobz and she wanted to see.
But that would require them being honest about the tag-teaming.
Hell yes!
That kid is 50% lying cheat and 50% deadbeat. Let someone else raise it to become the stripper/janitor of tomorrow,
Howard: I LOL’ed.
Abnoy’s intrusion into the thread is… well, it’s just a whole big ball of personal issues, ain’t it?
…. that’s…. that’s not how genetics work…
Ah, Truthy has arrived to share with all of his immense wealth of knowledge.
Asshole.
Strippers and janitors, huh? Gee, I wonder what exactly this could be an allusion to.
The child is also 20% bank robber on his mother’s side, and 10% farmer on his father’s.
I read stripper/janitor as someone who strips while tending to buildings. That would be an awkward job.
Also, dangerous. Wear protective clothing while handling bleach, kids!
… You appear to be leaking Freudianisms all over the place. I would offer to help patch you up, but you would probably say that my benevolent attempt at offering consolation is an expression of my inherent need to fill holes and that you are “Not gay enough for that to be a thing, bro”. I am so, so sorry on your behalf.
@Howard:
That was great. Well done.
@An Inconvenient Turnip:
Actually, “Stripper / Janitor” sounds like a pretty good idea for a book. By day, she is the janitor of the local high school! By night, she is the highest ranking stripper of the local bar! But what happens one of the teachers, following a messy divorce, seeks solace and encounters her in both… positions?
And the teacher is also a VAMPIRE?
AND A MILLIONAIRE?
It’s this summers hottest new best seller, Glittery Sparkles in: “Tassels, Teachers, Trigonometry and Tears”
And awat with bated breath the sequel of this stripper slash janitor slash vampire slash witch slash millionaire slash bondage hashtag true love hashtag marketing hashtag teen romance hashtag glitterysparkles:
“Math and Mops: A bucketful of A’s…”
…because all children are Damien from The Omen…
…still better than Twilight.
😀
Pretty much all janitors are also strippers. I was one myself for a while. Gotta strip before you can wax.
Floors, that is.
Inconvenient Truth makes me hope that he and others like him never have children, because apparently when he imagines raising a child, his motivation is having a carrier for bits and pieces of his dna, not… you know… a kid.
Bits and pieces of dna that are completely invisible in nearly all circumstances. Who thinks like this? Seriously, who?
@katz:
I have a feeling that stripper poles are being horribly misused somehow…
ICT/IR/Preggo-Punchout: That kid is 50% lying cheat and 50% deadbeat. Let someone else raise it to become the stripper/janitor of tomorrow,
Well… that’s better than the sort of misogynist who gets off dreaming of women pregnant women engaged in hand to hand combat to entertain men.
So if this should happen to you, please sever all ties.
I thought all women were born 100% cheaters and liars, and stayed that way regardless of their chosen profession? Truth, are you implying that not all women are hyperglamerous whores???
I’m still puzzled about the “teenage boys have to murder their fathers to replace them” thing. So a dad knows his son will murder him, but that’s cool because at least they have similar genes? WTF? It’s like Abnoy watched Star Wars under the influence of Jack Daniels, so he missed the part where Luke stops fighting Darth Vader and saves him instead. Or something. I have no idea, but that’s all really f’ed up.
No, see the son got 50% chaotic evil from his mom, and 50% lawful good from his father. That’s how genes work, because it’s science. For example, my mom likes to listen to The Carpenters, and my dad likes to listen to Elton John, so genetically I have to enjoy 70’s soft rock and disco.
Nonononono,
It’s BIOFAX.
Therefore, his assertion makes it so.
Just like his previous assertion that homosexuals were ruining his country.
He’s just a master of BIOFAX.
I think I should be better at science, because I am 50 percent biochemist because of my mom
Instead, I can’t understand any chemistry!
Obviously, my dad cuckolded my mom and deprived her of her biochemist genes being passed on. The only question is how he snuck me and my sister into her uterus, because she definitely recalls giving birth to us…
This has got to be like, a reverse-Oedipus complex. That one that Oedipus’s dad was worried about when he nailed his feet together and left him out in the middle of nowhere.
/or maybe that was a servant acting on his dad’s orders, my greek myths are just as about reliable as my bible stories
Okay, that had me cracking up. XD