Men’s Rights activists have discovered something that Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps and the rest of his gang at the Westboro Baptist Church learned a long time ago: outrageously offensive signs can mean media coverage.
Canadian MRAs associated with A Voice for Men recently got attention in Edmonton for posters mocking a date rape awareness campaign. Now some of their compatriots have captured the attention of the media with posters in Saskatoon.
This time the MRAs toned down the offensiveness in favor of simple outrageousness, combined with a healthy dose of incomprehensibility. The most incomprehensible of the current lot is probably this one, which comes straight from the A Voice for Men poster page:
But my favorite is this one:
I was originally going to write a sort of rebuttal to this, pointing out that by most measures Canada is, generally speaking, a rather unfrightening place for men (and women), what with its high standard of living, decent health care, relatively low crime rate, and so on.
I mean, if I were to pick a frightening country to live in, as a man (or a woman), I would probably pick someplace like, you know, Somalia, North Korea, Sudan or South Sudan, someplace like that. Syria’s probably not a great place to visit at the moment either.
But then I was thinking: Canada’s main problem, in terms of its international reputation, is that people tend to think of it as boring, not frightening.
Maybe Canada should embrace the whole “most frightening place to be a man” thing, and take advantage of this silly quote from Erin Pizzy to promote itself as scary, edgy, intense, EXTREEEEEMMME!
Maybe with some posters like the one at the top of this post?
I don’t know. I’m not that great at photoshop. Perhaps some of you would like to have a go at it? I know we’ve got some talented MRA poster-parodists here.
Yes, the “We are from Earth” poster actually is a good message. I hate that John Grey Venus/Mars crap.
But the imperative “Act Like It” is . . .. maybe you oughta take your own advice, guys? I mean just in this particular case.
What does Atheist Poster Number 2 even have to do with atheism?
OMFG that Conshelf crap is horrendously disgusting. The MRM should run about a million miles away from it if they had any sense. It only confirms everything we have been saying about the MRM and they still deny. What a sick, sick, sick person to write that.
From the item description:
Holy fuck that’s creepy. That is all.
augzillary, the posters we are talking about are here, on the AVfM poster page David linked to in his post: http://www.avoiceformen.com/posters/
You see, fur trappers used to use beavers for circumcisions and that’s how it became the national animal. over the years and due to feminism, the beaver started to be seen as cuddly and then sexy. But really it is very feral and scary. Additionally, women control the maple syrup industry and we all know what that means. Waffle hypergamy is a mess.
Wow, I’ve never seen so much assfax at once: http://www.avoiceformen.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/97percent.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3819149/atheistposter1.pdf
Objective analysis HAHAHAHAHA no
auggz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an atheist, so maybe it relates to her? IDK
did they seriously just say that women calling something ‘rape’ is the same as a religious person calling something ‘sin’
did they seriously pull that shit
ugh
Ally .. ..
“Wow, I’ve never seen so much assfax at once: http://www.avoiceformen.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/97percent.pdf”
Me neither. Where on earth are they getting all of these percentages? (That’s a serious question . . . does anyone know?)
Falconer: It certainly is. The Great White North old sketch from SCTV with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas styled a lot like Wayne’s World from SNL. If you like that you MUST find and watch Strange Brew. One of the funniest movies ever.
And so many of those “facts” can be easily re-written to show either (a) the opposite of what they intend, or (b) how problematic their issues are.
“70% of men who suspect they aren’t the real fathers of their children are wrong, and have shelled out $100s for no good reason.”
“The majority of the time when men petition for child custody after divorce, they get it.”
“Things were better when women couldn’t file for divorce because they were considered property.”
“Those statistics about fatherless children are heart-wrenching. Then you remember this is the movement that has ‘paper abortions’ as a central plank.”
grumpycatisagirl — off the top of my head, the workplace deaths and degrees ones are true. The DV one requires the use of a terrible survey method that excludes sexual assault — so he assaults her, she shoves him off, she committed DV, he didn’t — totally reliable method there!
The paternity test of, and divorce one, are half right — those are the rates under certain conditions. The divorce one, for example, is in cases that go before a judge, with is only like 5% or something (I have that saved, give me a moment) and even then, only a third ask for primary custody.
Oh and that women intiate divorce more is true, but that’s just who turns in the paperwork, a good number of no-fault no-judge everything-is-settled divorces are probably counted in that.
I have no clue on all the claims about fatherless homes, I suspect it’s conflating single mothers and fatherless and ignoring the frequency of poverty among single parents.
The homelessness one is ASSFAX — http://humanneeds.vcu.edu/Page.aspx?nav=29&scope=0&source=13
In the US men commit suicide at about 4x the rate of women, which works out to 80%, but we seem unique in this — http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/
@Dvärghundspossen
Apparently A Voice For Men had this thing for a while where they called FeMRAs honey badgers, because FeMRAs don’t give a shit about feminism, it’s an in-joke that nobody outside AVFM would get.
@grumpycatisagirl
I’m guessing the first woman on that poster is an atheist, the quote is probably about how atheists should be allowed to criticize religion whether it causes offence or not. It’s the kind of stuff that is usually said to protest blasphemy laws, censorship, and the like, although a lot of asshole atheists take these kinds of statements as a license to be complete assholes to religious people.
I do know Surly Amy, the second woman. She is an atheist that has been a proponent/supporter of anti-harassment policies at atheist conventions and other gatherings, and as such has been the subject of a great deal of harassment. The quote she is saying is most likely in that context, calling for basic rules against harassment. However, the kind of asshole atheists that are opposed to said policies often claim that their free speech is being infringed and if there are policies against offending people then they won’t be able to criticize religion, because religious people get offended by that and blah, blah, blah, oh no, my freeze peach, blah, blah, blah.
auggziliary — yes, and a fair number are because of racism and the father being incarcerated, at least in the US anyways.
@saintnick: That Every MRA Ever thing is a wall of text too dense for me to bother reading.
A+ imitation, would read a sentence or so of and then decide life’s too short again. 😀
Oh wow, that “we are from Earth” poster is actually good. A simple message, based on a pop culture reference that a lot of people are familiar with, presented with clear, striking imagery. It’s a bit unbalanced towards the bottom, but hey, it’s a major step up from their other posters. Granted, it’s completely inconsistent with the content of their site, but you know, credit where credit is due.
Myoo, the pink and blue are way too bright and the font at the bottom is way too large. It would be a terrible poster by any other standard than the Manosphere.
@Myoo
Oh look, the site that calls feminist men “maginas” and “bitches” is saying that they oppose gender essentialism! I think I’ll just point and laugh.
I don’t get the “message” of the We Are From Earth poster. Feminists act like aliens? Read pop psychology books with a critical eye?