Apparently, to a lot of the regulars in the Men’s Rights subreddit — like the hundreds who upvoted a post of this picture — the notion that men should raise their sons to respect women as equals is nothing more than foul propaganda and MISANDRY of the highest order.
And seriously, those guys in the poster look like total White Knight Beta Manginas.
Some of the Men’s Rightsers were especially offended by the white ribbon at the bottom of the poster, which they saw as a vaguely sinister reminder of a World War I campaign to shame British men into enlisting in the army. Because suggesting to your sons that boys and girls should be treated equally is the same as being guilt-tripped into becoming cannon fodder:
![TheOtherBono 54 points 1 day ago (80|26) White ribbons. Just like the white feathers handed to non-conscript men of the UK during WW1 by women to shame them into enlisting. How sweet [–]froggymorning 14 points 22 hours ago (23|9) What a subtle and effective slap. MRMRising [-2] 6 points 23 hours ago (12|6) ...and just as destructive.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/whiteribbon.png?resize=536%2C245&ssl=1)
Others used the poster as an opportunity to rail against … marriage. The top comment in the thread, as I write this post, is this one.
Elezeid expanded on this theme:
Caspian_Drifter responded to the eeeevil poster with a rhetorical question that unintentionally helped to underscore the whole point of the campaign in the first place:
Seriously, ladies, why do gals like to go on and on about “equality” so much when your ladybrains weren’t even smart enough to come up with the idea in the first place? I mean, really, you ungrateful gals, you have a man/men to thank for that.
If I remember correctly, it was T. Reginald Equality who came up with the idea, with some help from his brother Ned (who suggested that he name it after himself).
My elementary school had some sort of computer with Oregon trail and some math game (that you’d think I loved, but I hated it, top mind bogglingly easy) and then the library got one with Internet and I was hooked. Begged and begged and begged, my parents all “sorry, money doesn’t grow on trees”…and then one of my father’s coworkers was upgrading his DOS box, no functional net, just a handful of shitty games, but I loved it. And then AOL online (yep, people used it!)
High school I bought myself a used one of these and daisy chained the Internet onto it (this was years after daisy chained Internet ceased being A Thing). Got a shiny new laptop for college, that lasted 2 years as fucking TSA broke the fucking thing when I moved to Pittsburgh. Cue a period of brokenness and shitty computers, to the point I named my highly modded highly irritable PC Hal.
And then I bought my mac…who’s provided good and faithful service through so many dropped, a beer being split on it, me replacing the keyboard after that, my breaking the logic board a wee bit while failing to replace a fan (long story short, I was an extra special blend of mixed nuts at the time). 6~7 years old, one fan, a banged up case (MacBook Pro, so it’s metal, and takes a beating)…and you can thank it for your survey and results!
iPad was a Christmas gift, and I have no intent to ever go back to windows!
/geekery
@CassandraSays, I’m holding up okay, thanks. Speech went off okay, I think; her mother asked me for a copy of it, so it couldn’t have been too terrible.
@auggz
Huh. I’m 18 (almost 19). I guess I am just less computer savvy. *sniff* (well, not really since it’s not a big deal. I just know we didn’t have much computer stuff in elementary school. plus I always sucked at it XD)
@auggziliary
You’re 17? I had the impression you were in your late 20s this whole time. =P That’s a good thing in my view, though.
RE: auggziliary
Through the many moves and stripping of belongings, all that remains of our PS1 games are Crash 1, 2, and CTR, Spyros 1-3, and Frogger. I think I’ve got more NINTENDO games than PS1 left over.
Shame. I’ve been itching to get my mitts on Brave Fencer Musashi and Tomba 1.
Ok, now I feel old, I turned 28 last week. Kitteh, please shake your cane at these whippersnappers?
I like your use of the word probably. As for toothbrush porn, well, you know, some brushes are electric and vibrate. And I’m sorry to have started a nostalgia-fest, here. No, I’m not. I’m just weirded out by it. But in a good way. Like biting into a tomato and you taste a starfruit. Surprises like that are what keeps the brain runnin’.
I turned 19 last Friday. It was probably one of the worst birthdays I’ve had recently since I spent most of the day working. V_V I’m hoping that my next birthday is on the weekend.
Happy birthday to Ally!!! Let me look around; I’m sure I have a cake somewhere…
A tiny cake and presents just for Ally, presented by my giant hand.
@Ally
Happy birthday! Sorry to hear it wasn’t good 🙁
Ps, ally, have some misandrist WHORE penguin cake! 😀
The 19th? Mine’s the 20th! (Arguably, my mother sometimes decides it starts when they induced her and ends 36 hours later when she was done with labor…in which case, the 19th is included!)
Happy birthday, and may your life shine with good people.
(Note to doxx-happy trolls: That is not actually my giant hand; do not doxx that nice woman who likes to make tiny cakes out of polymer.)
Happy birthday to Ally, and sorry it wasn’t a good one.
I just ignore our birthday as best I can, the past couple years. I pretty much just bunker down and stagger through all of the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year-birthday season.
@cloudiah
Yay for tiny cakes! :3 Thanks cloudiah!
@Michael
Thank you ^_^
@Marie
Thanks! And I love the cake, too! =D
My 18th birthday wasn’t so fun either, mostly because I spent time around family members I just don’t feel comfortable around. I much prefer birthdays in which I spend time with tolerant, liberal family members and friends, and I’ve felt this way even before coming out as trans*.
The last good birthday I had was my 17th one. I just spent time with my mom, my older siblings, my step-dad, and my sister’s ex-boyfriend. My sister made me a vegan chocolate cake, which, contrary to what one might expect, was absolutely delicious. I also had a generous helping of pizza. And at the end of the day, I went to the arcade in downtown Denver. The fact that I was with cool people (well, most of them were cool at least – my sister’s ex-boyfriend has always been unpleasant to be around) was the main reason I enjoyed my birthday, although I’d say the other reason I enjoyed it was that I happened to be stoned out of my mind.
(Yep, one side of the family criticizes me for not being religious and conservative enough, and another side is entirely fine with me doing certain drugs. Quite the division of attitudes there.)
I played Pong in the mid-1970s on a TV with rabbit ear antennas and a manual channel changer. You could set the paddles such that the puck would go into an infinite loop on the screen, and go make yourself a Fluffernutter sandwich or a bowl of Cap’n Crunch.
This was way back in cave times, before the military-abortion-scented candle complex ruined western women and turned Canada into a terrifying hellhole.
I’ll add that another reason I was happy on that birthday is that it happened to be right after I officially renounced my religion and started my massive worldview shift.
Anyway, I really appreciate the birthday wishes, everyone. The past few days have been very emotionally taxing and depressing for me, and this morning I’ve been feeling very lonely and anxious for various reasons. So seeing you folks give belated birthday wishes (even though my birthday happened 9 days ago) means a lot to me. You folks are the best. :}
Happy birthday, Ally! (from a fellow mid July baby) Sorry this one wasn’t great; I hope the coming year brings you plenty of good friends, love and laughter.
Montreal and Vancouver. What the hell, they shoot all U.S. crime dramas there anyway, And Universal healthcare is just eeeevil.
On the post topic, I was thinking about the posters, what they mean and the part of the white ribbons. I think I missed a big part of the meaning of it since I was seeing it through the eyes of idiotic MRAs.
I think part of the point of these posters is to say that boys need to have good healthy equal relationships *with men* in their lives for strong self esteem and because boys with strong self-esteem are less likely to be victims of any kind of exploitive relationships…maybe even referencing problems with pedophilia…hence the white ribbons as symbols of innocence. (Ontario had its own priest scandal very recently.)
The idea that anybody tries to hate on these ideas makes me really sick.
The message is that men have *responsibilities* to their children and other chidren around them. Maybe that is the real reason the responsibility-phobic MRA’s don’t like it.
It is nice to see that there are some orgs out there that actually give a damn about men and boys.
What’s that? Old games?
Sorry, I couldn’t hear your lot over al this Legionnaire I’ve been playing.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaire_(video_game) )
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@Ally S.
Happy birthday! Congratulations on another year, which I hope was good, and may this next one be even better!
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I never played Legionnaire. But I was reading about it last night, and I did grow up playing old games. I was born on the cusp of 1991, so I turn 22 this year. I’ve had access to various gaming systems for most of my life, but never really old ones.
I remember playing Wolfenstein with my father, though and eventually getting into it myself (Mecha Hitler frightened me very much). We used the dial up to look up codes – and it was how I learned to search for things as well.
To this day, some part of my mind connects the buzzing, screeching sound of dial up connections to easy solutions to hard problems… Which I guess kind of encapsulates the entire internet in one go.
Ah, so many years of World of Warcraft. And look at where that makes you end up. ManBoobz, that’s where! q:
@Ally
Thanks :3 I’ve got to make another one that could be conceivably manboobz themed soon, though, cuz I get tired of linking to the same cake all the time XD
That sucks 🙁 It’s much more comfy when you can be yourself (or not have to hide shit or w/e) around your family.
🙁 All the interweb hugs that you want from me. Sorry your having bad days 🙁
I somehow missed seeing whoever said this first, but whoever did, zie was awesome. XD
Oh the sound of dial-up. I almost want to program the mac to make it when I launch a browser. Because yeah, that’s the sound of things making sense again (in my case as much games and tech stuff as “ok, so I’m not completely losing my mind”)