The fellas in the Men’s Rights subreddit are getting worked up over imaginary feminists again!
Yesterday, in a discussion of paternity fraud, a brand-new Redditor who had never posted a comment before posted a completely unsourced screenshot of what quite a few of the regulars took to be some sort of official feminist statement on paternity fraud.
A few of the more discerning commenters suggested that the screenshot might just be satire, but others were convinced not only that it was real, but that it was the completely serious opinion of a representative feminist. As one put it, referring to the Reddit watchdogs in Shit Reddit Says,
Another chimed in with this:
I took a few moments to Google some of the text in the screenshot to find out where it originated and discovered that it came from a now-defunct Tumblr blog called feminismrising.
While the blog is gone, it has left little traces of itself all over the internet, and from these traces it’s easy enough to figure out that it was a satirical/troll blog meant to parody feminism. My guess, for what it’s worth, is that that it was written by a feminist out to parody the absurd visions of evil feminism that are prevalent amongst Men’s Rightsers and other antifeminists. But who knows. The only thing that’s really clear is that it was a joke.
Proof? Well, here’s one “Q-and-A” that evidently once ran on the site:
Q: My boyfriend recently asked me if we could have sex. I tried to explain to him that asking me to have sex with him counts as sexual assault, but he couldn’t understand it that piv sex is ONLY okay if I am the one who asks for it. Can you help me try to explain why what he’s doing when he asks for sex is misogynistic?
A: It seems he doesn’t understand sexual harassment to such a degree for all intents and purposes is basically sexual assault.
This is normal; men in general don’t understand even the most basic tactful ways to approach women.
A rule of thumb is that if you can see him, hear him and feel him it’s most definitely sexual assault. Now does that mean that just because you can’t feel him it isn’t sexual assault? No. That’s just something rape culture says. Going by that line of reasoning it wouldn’t be sexual assault if you simply couldn’t feel him as you’d been administered some sort of anesthesia.
So through absurdity reduction we rule out that it’s necessary to feel him. If you can hear him, see him and you feel sexually assaulted then you have been sexually assaulted.
He’s being misogynistic for saying he doesn’t understand.
I think only a complete Men’s Rights dunderhead could fail to detect the satire here.
You can see more examples from the blog here.
Elsewhere in the same Men’s Rights subreddit discussion, helping MRAs live up to another unfortunate stereotype, this fella gets a few upvotes for his I’m-just-sayin’ semi-advocacy of vigilante justice — specifically, murdering judges:
Oh, Men’s Rights Redditors. You’re just awful, aren’t you?
It’s nice to see that Falconer is now able to write a short sentence in French correctly.
Brz: fuck off. Like you would know correct French.
Of course I know correct French.
For exemple, “ces mots doux que vous avez adressés à mon égard m’invitent à vous proposer très solennellement d’aller vous faire empapaouter chez les grecs Madame, avec l’expression de mes sentiments les moins distingués, etc…”, is a correct French sentence.
@kittehs
Then I guess it is fancy 😀 I just didn’t know what to say b/c it wasn’t very expensive XD (for some reason I always assume fancy stuff is expensive.)
@viscaria
Oh no was a troll slandering my awesome name! 😮
What’s Erwan’s shtick, I can’t think in the morning. Is it praternity fraud? (going by context).
@neuroticbeagle
Awww, unicorn hamster is the cutest thing every! 😀
@kittehs
That looks evil 😮
In many countries it’s the norm to refer to it as ‘seed’, I guess it’s archaic but it seems harmless to me. You’d have to speak to an audience of toddlers unaware of basic biology to exploit this usage.
And you’d think that MRA’s would have been burned by fake stories before and would be more careful this time around. Guess not. (now which is the irrational gender again??)
It’s not harmless. Seed is a complete thing. One puts it in the ground and it grows. It can be grown (for a bit) with nothing but water. It pus the woman in the passive role of receptacle of his fertility: an incubator.
« Ta tête est faite de fromage » est également une phrase française correcte.
Anyway, it’s not your French that gives you away — it’s your inconsistently poor English.
And « ne … jamais » is proper French, Mr. Ne … Pas Jamais.
It depends, “je n’ai jamais pu supporter les cons” is correct but il est [sic] jamais français” doesn’t mean anything.
This is a screenshot which could only be legit in a world in which George Zimmerman pulls people out of burning cars.
YMMV…
I dropped the “ne” because I was being informal.
Do you think the entirety of l’Hexagone took Mrs. Fritts’ 10th grade French class?
What am I doing? This is an internet pissing contest over French grammar. With wikipedia and translator websites one click away, the outcome doesn’t mean anything.
So go insérez ta tête dans un porc, Brz. You’re still not French.
The problem isn’t the missing “ne”, it’s the tense of the verb : I suppose you wanted to say il n’a jamais été français.
You can’t say il n’est jamais français just like you can’t say you’re never French, that doesn’t mean anything.
Well, I’m a native French speaker who never heard ’empapaouter’ until today. Of course, in my culture swearing tends to use forms borrowed from the Roman Catholic cult and insults tend to require the word ‘marde’.
*hangs ikea bed canopy* there, hopefully that’ll keep the mosquitoes out (of course my beetles seem to have stopped the day after I bought it >.< )
“marde”? like in “tabernacle de criss de maaarde? You’re from Québec?
Empapaouter is old but nice, va te faire gamahucher le cul is also nice.
Oh lord, Brz is nattering on about French now. I’ma just go back to MSTing Cockrub Warriors of Mars now; it’s way less mindnumbing.
Also, reading the tumblr stupid just breaks my brain. I do believe it’s too dumb to be true, but goddamn, the way tumblr can be sometimes, it wouldn’t surprise me.
@Brz
You continue to be wrong in every way. From that link:
Tl;Dr: So, the guy lied to her about being monogamous and routinely had unprotected sex with other people, and then coerced her into having unprotected sex by lying, and as a result she got an STI. If you can’t see how that is bad then you are a complete asshole.
You can’t say il n’est jamais français just like you can’t say you’re never French, that doesn’t mean anything.
Au contraire, mon ami. You are never French is a complete thought. It might benefit from further explication, but contextually it’s not needed.
It’s also, from the available evidence, true of you.
OMG! You guise! In line with the “seed” discussion … seed stealing iz real! I LITERALLY had my seed stolen just the other day!!
You see, I put my (avocado) seed (which had begun to sprout into a tiny tree!) into a pot (full of soil) and placed it on my fire escape (thinking it would get some sun and maybe a little light rain). The next morning, when I went to check on it, my seed was GONE! A bird or squirrel, but probably a feminist, had STOLEN MY SEED IN THE NIGHT!! Exactly the way baby-hungry women steal condoms from innocent men’s trash!
SEE?? The MRAs were RIGHT ALL ALONG.
Except for how I, unlike an MRA, was looking forward to the seed growing so I could take responsibility for it. And a lot of other details, like basically all of them. Details, okay, who needs ’em?
Really I just hope my seed made a tasty snack for whatever bird or beastie took it.
And this is, to me, the only context in which talking about “seed” is not antiquated at best, horrifying at worst, and (when MRAS use it) often both at once.
I feel your pain, guffaw-ferrets! Seed theft is the worst! Last year I had some awful seed-pigeons flock onto my balcony and the stole my ghost pepper seeds which I had just planted! And they put them in their bodies!
Luckily, being ghost pepper seeds, they were like hot sauce so the feminist pigeons aren’t getting any seedling support from me! Dodged a bullet there…
You doused your avocado seed in hot sauce before leaving it out on the fire escape where any baby-plant-hungry feminist critters could get to it, right?! Because otherwise you could find yourself being fined 2000% of your income to buy bonbons and scented fucking candles for whatever feminist raccoon pitjacked your seed!
… I accidentally a word; seed-pigeons should be seed-hungry pigeons…
@guffaw-ferrets
Those dang feminists! Stealing your hard earned potential avocados!!!!!!!eleven!!!11
@Myoo
I am indeed a complete and unrepentant asshole but I recognize, though, that women have the Right, because they’re terribly oppressed by The Patriarchy, to call “rape” every wrong a man can do to them and as I try to challenge my original sin of having The Male Privilege, I’ll try to convince myself that if I can feel bad sometimes because I’ve been cheated on, it’s because I’m entitled and whiny, as all men who haven’t fully acknowledged their male privilege are.
Do I get it right now?
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“I am indeed a complete and unrepentant asshole but I recognize, though, that women have the Right, because they’re terribly oppressed by The Patriarchy, to call “rape” every wrong a man can do to them.”
No. Everything is not rape. Rape is rape.
“…and as I try to challenge my original sin of having The Male Privilege,”
Ummm…ok.
“I’ll try to convince myself that if I can feel bad sometimes because I’ve been cheated on,”
It is acceptable to feel bad when you have been cheated on. Not sure why don’t know that.
“…it’s because I’m entitled and whiny, as all men who haven’t fully acknowledged their male privilege are.”
I don’t think you know what male privilege means. Maybe look up entitled and whiny while you’re at it.
“Do I get it right now?”
Apparently not. But nice try. 2/10