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.
Also “camel jockeys” has me thinking of a lot of short men in silks riding camels on a racetrack. Not sure why they’d be hatching conspiracies in their spare moments.
Especially since in modern camel racing they’re often robots. Unless…
ROBOT CONSPIRACY!
Idk if you’d call it Islamophoba, considering they apply it to everyone from the Middle East, but yeah, it’s a racist term for people (usually men) from that region. Or with a side color that looks like it to the racist in question.
So few words, so much fail.
Hey, MST3K did an episode called the Outlaw of Gor. Remember the song about breasts and “buffalo shots”?
Robot jockeys or robot camels? I want to see robot camels!!!
… like this.
I’m sure someone mentioned the cone of shame today.
Poop!
http://www.coolgizmotoys.com/images/2012/01/Battle-Damage_16721-l-560×373.jpg
Thanks for the info/Wikipedia link about Gor. I still don’t quite understand, but perhaps I needn’t.
…That sick sinking feeling when your realize your nephew Tarl was named after Gor….
women, all of them, are naturally submissive and need to be punished to achieve this
That old chestnut! Women are so naturally submissive that even beating them and raping them won’t cure some of not being submissive enough. So the violence has to be carefully and continuously applied to maintain order.
This is basically how oppression works in a nutshell. Substitute any oppressed group for women in that paragraph and it still makes sense.
I have some grits idiots who think like this can kiss.
I have some used kitty litter here, want to add it to the mix?
Off topic:
Have you guys seen the post roaming around (notably on tumblr) about how men who are fat and have thin gf/wives are judged and how women who are fat and have thin bf/husbands bask in society’s approval?
Seriously, these guys like to play the victim card hard……What fantasy land do they live in?
This is actually a bit sad.
A bloke is openly admitting that he’s never experienced the whole hot and heavy, this is maaaaarvellous, I wish this could go on forever’n’ever’n’ever thing with any woman. And wants to ensure that no one else ever does either.
mildlymagnificent – does that come as a surprise? I can’t say it does. I don’t feel sorry for him; I’m more inclined to think he’s one of those who doesn’t give a shit if he has any sort of consent. The statement struck me not as sad but as rapey.
If any of these guys had experienced sex with a woman who was happy about it I’d be astonished.
Ditto.
And AAAAAAGHHH I have to pick out eight lines of knitting ‘cos I did a cable back to front!
Why does such weird random shit pop up on Skype? Is that where all the old email scams have moved to?
“Hello’ i am Peter Robert Voser from Switzerland Swiss, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc. how are you doing, am having a trip to your country very soon can we chat?”
Gawd, that sounds like the sort of scam spam we get in email at work all the time. Makes a change from Nigerian royalty, I guess.
I love the coin poster. It illustrates not only WMRAs’ profound ignorance of history, and their profound ignorance of, y’know, what words mean and everything, but also the inherent incoherence of their ideas *even when taken on their own terms*.
Even granted that feminism entails “male disposability” (which it doesn’t) and even given that the First World War was caused by ‘patriarchy’ (which it wasn’t… although it’s hard to say that categorically because it’s hard to know what the people who wrote the poster think the word ‘patriarchy’ means… for all I can tell they might think it refers to kind of teapot), the comparison implied by the use of the Kitchener picture *still* doesn’t make sense… unless I fell asleep and missed the incident when an entire continent of warmongering governments – all run by feminists – hurled a generation of young men against each other to be killed by artillery shells, machine gun fire and dysentery.
Patriarchy!
Political assassinations are always because of feminism, obviously.
I can’t do photoshop just yet, but I can do this:
Canada is a country inundated with blood
Don’t believe me? I can use logic – MAN LOGIC – to fucking prove it to you boobz.
Two words.
Maple syrup.
Well, actually, three words – maple syrup and xylem. Sap. Maple syrup is a wood sap derivative. Oh, that’s just a plant, you say?
FALSE. Feminist falsehood, that is. They don’t mean wood. They wood. That’s right.
Xylem is greek for wood, morning wood, that’s what goes into the infernal creation know as maple syrup.
It’s only logic.
So don’t go to Canada.
Here’s a good sample of the writing style of Gor without the porn aspect (except by implication). It’s really everything you need to know.
http://www.rdrop.com/~wyvern/data/houseplants.html
There’s this drinking game we used to play among my friends while I was in college. Get in a circle and the first person takes a random point in a Gor book and reads dramatically (and sarcastically). If you laugh you have to drink. If you’re the reader and laugh you have to finish your drink and pass the book to your left. Continue until it stops hurting.
Here’s my effort:
http://i.imgur.com/47fj3mzl.jpg