So here’s an interesting chart. Guess what it represents?
A) The membership of the David Duke Fan Club
B) The racial breakdown of the most successful Liberace impersonators
C) The demographics of the Men’s Rights subreddit
Well, ok, that was too easy. It is of course all of the above. I’m guessing. It’s definitely C, at least, as this chart was prepared to show the results of the 2013 Men’s Rights subreddit demographic survey.
Now, you might say, well, isn’t Reddit itself a pretty white place? And you would be right. But the Men’s Rights subreddit seems to be a bit whiter — and a lot less black — than Reddit as a whole, if Quantcast’s estimates of Reddit’s overall ethnic breakdown are accurate.
In other completely non-surprising news, 89% of Men’s Rights Redditors are men. And a lot of them are libertarians. MRAs complain endlessly that we pigeonhole them as a bunch of entitled white dudes. They’re really not doing much to challenge that assumption.
The most important issue to these fellas (and the small minority that aren’t fellas)? Survey says: False rape accusations.
Other critical issues to the Men’s Rightsers include “custody rights” (which is a bit odd because 92% of those surveyed have no kids), “legal discrimination” (whatever that means), “education discrimination” (this is a thing?), and “male disposability.”
“Male birth control” and “paper abortion,” while relatively less important to the Men’s Rightsers, each got hundreds of votes.
I’m surprised “friendzoning” isn’t at the top of the list, but unfortunately it wasn’t one of the choices. I blame misandry.
Bad_Dog: SO sorry to hear that. 🙁 Best wishes.
@Bad_dog
Sorry about your friend, I hope he pulls through.
@ thebionicmommy
You have midges in the Midwest? I had thought that only Scotland and Russia were cursed with those little assholes.
I would like to send a package full of them to Mr “the only reason not to rape is that if you have game you don’t need to”. Maybe we can throw in some hornets too.
I was talking to an old Russian man at the tramstop yesterday. He said spring in Siberia’s worse than winter, because the permafrost means the snowmelt can’t drain, and the place turns into a mosquito-infested swamp. Said he’s seen huge meltwater lakes and moose standing half a mile from the shore just to get away from them. He also said – I don’t know if he was feeding me a line or maybe had been in a gulag; I didn’t get time to ask – that a punishment was to tie someone up and leave them to the mosquitoes.
Wow, glad to see Mister “I don’t support rape because I don’t need it to get laid” was happy to provide the extraordinary(ily common) evidence of his own misogyny while I was out seeing Man of Steel.
In other news, Man of Steel is the best Superman movie I’ve seen, and yes I’ve seen the old ones.
Nice to see a remake is good! 🙂
Don’t forget about the house centipedes.
V: O’s arguments aren’t so much arguments as contradiction.
http://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y
V: Signed,
V: Viscaria
@CassandraSays,
Sorry I was wrong. They are not midges I was thinking of. I was thinking of Trombiculidae, or harvest mites. It is a different type of bug that lives in the grass, and then bites your ankles and legs. They are very annoying, and if you have bare skin exposed, you’ll probably get bit. But bug repellants do keep them away too. And yes, rape apologists should romp around in the yard barefoot where the mites are and then not have any calamine lotion to deal with the itching afterward.
And I am also sorry for your friend, Bad Dog. I’m rooting for him to get well soon.
Might I also recommend a box of Space Cereal from the Millipede Planet?
Very much so, Kittehserf. Although, in the end, Alan Moore already said more about Superman in Watchmen than any Superman movie probably ever will.
@Tulgey Logger,
Since you’ve seen it, can you give me advice? Okay, my seven year old son loves Superman and all comic book hero movies. He wants to see Man of Steel real bad. I think it looks cool, too. The problem is I read it has a graphic tornado scene. My son just got done with trauma counseling and now only thinks about tornadoes during storms, but usually goes on like May 22 never happened. Do you think the movie would bring all that back and harm him? Or would it be good for him to watch stuff like that and get desensitized?
As for me, I know I can watch it just fine. I’ve seen enough in real life that watching death and tragedy on screen is no big deal anymore.
LBT – priceless!
… are they sure the Millipede Planet wasn’t just the outback here?
RE: thebionicmommy
Hmm. Haven’t seen the movie, but maybe ask your son how he feels about it, making it clear you won’t judge him if he says he doesn’t want to see it? He might want to try and watch the movie anyway, but if he wants, maybe you could warn him about the tornado part if he wants to avoid it, so he can close his eyes or something.
RE: Kittehserf
The comics creator said that she was inspired by her Aussie friends talking about millipede season, as a matter of fact.
*is mostly done with survey break* more IS, then back to work (the HUGE list of religions on that page is proving to be actual work)…anyone got a similar list for political views? If not I’m going to resort to wiki. Also, I’m splitting the gender options to:
Cis Male
Cis Female
Trans* male
Trans* female
Non-binary
If non-binary, which of these?
It’ll make it easier compare M // F // non-binary and trans* // cis // non-binary (I may include a “if non-binary, do you consider yourself to be trans*”)
Debating on male // female vs man // woman too.
Also, should I include a question about economic class? Eg poverty, working poor, etc?
Anything else y’all want to see? (The smart ass question remains open!)
Coffee, IS, back to survey!
I skimmed past most of boring troll’s self-promotion attempts because they were making me want to take a nap, but this part jumped out at me because it’s hilarious.
You read it here, folks. Among the many crimes of which feminism is guilty is the fact that we didn’t build time machines and use them to go back and make our moms marry shorter men.
Unless he was trying to link the man one chooses to date to one’s dad, in which case that’s just creepy.
How short is short, anyway? My man’s 5’7″ and that’s plenty tall enough for me. I hate being loomed over.
Definitely male // female so it can include minors.
I don’t envy the decision you have to make, that’s a tough call. Quasi-Spoilers Ahoy: The tornado scene is very intense in terms of the presentation of the tornado, and it’s a pretty tragic event in terms of the story. It isn’t very graphic, but there’s implied death. The whole movie is like that: lots of destruction and implied death, but almost no blood or anything like that. I can’t say whether I would recommend that your son see it, but if he gets really worked up by storms or by movies about tornados, then it will not be good for him to see. If you feel like he’s able to see it but you aren’t sure, or if he’s okay with trying to watch the scene, I would recommend picking an aisle seat so he can leave the theater easily if it’s too much.
(His morning height might be taller, of course. I’ve never checked.)
Well, I’m 5’2″ and my husband is 6’2″ so I must be the queen of misandry. And I won’t apologize for finding tallness attractive, especially to a guy that writes long blog posts ranting about how US women are too fat for him.
@LBT, yes I agree it’s good to give him the heads up before hand. It’d be like a trigger warning in a way, letting him know the movie has a scene that could upset him.
@Tulgey Logger, thank you for the description. It gives me a good idea of what to expect. It’s good that they didn’t put any much gore in it. That’s hard for adults to see, so it’s even harder for a kid recovering from trauma. My instincts are telling me that if we go, we will definitely sit in the back, near the aisle, so it’d be quick and easy to just duck out if he gets scared. But I’m not even sure we will try at all. As a mom, I’d rather have him hate me for not taking him than to go back to nightmares and all that again.
It’s not like it’d take long for it to come out on DVD, where I can just skip the scene altogether, letting us enjoy Superman without worries.
“Definitely male // female so it can include minors.”
Ah, good point! And I think I’m going with the aforementioned splitting out non-binary, but making the trans* // cis question a general one and include neither — my twitter’s had a lot of “does the trans* // cis binary exclude intersex people?”. I guess I’m more curious how our other non-binaries feel on that one, but the ALL ABOUT ME thing shouldn’t be coded into the survey! (Bad Argenti, eradicate that bias! [and the enemy! It’s EA time!])
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwy9yk1d7Tk
Y U no embed?!
http://youtu.be/qwy9yk1d7Tk