So for some reason the fellas on the Men’s Rights subreddit are discussing an article by Australian newspaper columnist Clementine Ford in which she expresses her desire to see more dongs on television.
As she notes, there are plenty of boobs on display on HBO shows like Game of Thrones, yet “rarely are we treated to the visual smorgasbord of a well stocked meat platter. ” Ford is sick of it. “So bring on the parade of wangs, willies and woodies!” she demands. “I’m fond of a wand and I’m not ashamed to say it.”
I’m not terribly familiar with the writings of Clementine Ford, but evidently she’s not big on subtlety.
Anyway, the fellas in the Men’s Rights subreddit aren’t having any of it. Nuh uh. They ain’t buying it, ladies! You may write columns about how you want more wang on TV. You may talk about it with your friends. You may have gigantic collections of peen pics hidden away on your hard drive.
But the MRAs of Reddit know better. It’s all some devious feminist ploy, as Steampunk_Moustache helpfully explains.
Huh. That took an odd twist at the end there.
But it’s our old friend Giegerwasright who provides the real answer, in the form of a wall-o-mansplainin’ so giant that I had to shrink the text to even screencap it.
Huh.
So why exactly are women pretending to be interested in seeing more penises on television? So they can point at them and laugh?
Women are such an enigma, especially if you just assume that nothing they ever say is true and that it’s all part of some weird plot to screw with men’s heads.
(H/t to r/againstmensrights for pointing me to geigerwasright’s lovely comment.)
Maybe it was a bunch of ferrets in an MRAL suit. *nods wisely*
And this one is cats in a Mr. Al suit, yes.
No! The Furrinati could never be so terrible!
Plus, they write better.
Sorry if my humor was in bad taste. Am somewhat alarmed that some people seemed to take my post at face value. Note to self; familiarize self with culture of new online community before attempting humor, self. Although I still can’t understand why heterosexual men would want to look at other men’s junk, that part was serious.
markb, we’ve had lots of trolls here over the years who really do post that sort of thing in earnest, alarming as that is. More lurking is definitely called for (that, or putting a /snark tag at the bottom of a comment)!
RE: markb
Am somewhat alarmed that some people seemed to take my post at face value.
You obviously have not met our illustrious cabal of trolls.
Although I still can’t understand why heterosexual men would want to look at other men’s junk, that part was serious.
As an artist, I can still enjoy the human form, even if its not in a shape I’m sexually attracted to. I enjoy looking at anatomy in all its complexity.
I wonder – could some of it, with viewing porn, be a projection thing? (Stop giggling in the back, 4C.) The viewer imagining himself as the guy on screen?
Totally random guess there, being neither a man nor a porn-viewer.
There really needs to be a sarcasm/snark font.
Markb: Well, you got us good if you were joking. But we’ve got apparently earnest trolls who are saying things like this, so seriously, unless we already know who you are and what you’re like, we have no way to tell!
Or it could just to get an idea what the damn things look like. I mean, people come in all shapes and sizes; I figure it’s not that weird to be curious about how other folks look.
That’s a good point, LBT. I have much the same curiosity about women’s bits. So far from being of the “I don’t conform to the norm, I am ugly/deformed!” generation, I presumed everyone was much the same as me, not that I gave it much thought.
@Argenti- It’s sad. Every troll spawning season I hope that we get a new crop that has the potential to live up to Meller and OWLy. And then, every season, I am disappointed. If we’re going to get the trolls, at least let them be over the top trolls of magic and wonder.
Probably didn’t help that my first post was on a “salacious” topic. But I would have thought that putting “All right-thinking people agree” before what is obviously a very specific fetish would have made it clear that I was poking fun at myself.
As for the original article by Clementine Ford, do they not get “Spartacus” in Australia?
@Markb- I have noticed that, after seeing lots and lots and lots of naked bodies of different shapes and sizes, they all just sort of become body shaped. Not gross, not particularly appealing (unless the body’s attached to someone I’m attracted to), just sort of body shaped and normal. Like, people will put of pictures of really fat people or really old people as memes in an effort to shock, and it’s just like “Yes, they have a body and that is what it looks like. Cool.” And I’m actually really grateful for that.
M Dubz – agree there! It’s the face that matters for me. I just saw a life-drawing of a man whose body would prolly be dismissed as “eww, he’s got a fat belly,” but I liked his face (dark hair, moustache) and the body looked good ‘cos they went together.
markb – eh, it’s still the troll thing. We get trolls who really do say that sort of thing for real (and add “and that’s real” at the end, which has become a running joke). NWOslave, greatest and most OTT of trolls, came out with gems about Spanish and Russian using the same alphabet, or evolution not being a thing ‘cos there’d be superdogs, and women just having to sit on street corners and cry to be given money, and women’s sexuality = how we dress, and needing to be beaten for enticing men by wearing sexy sexy capris and not having sex with men immediately … oh and he included little girls in his slut-rage.
So however bizarre a statement, if it comes from someone we don’t know, chances are it will be taken for a troll’s.
Oh, absolutely. I have done enough figure drawing from live models to have experienced the same thing. In fact, early on I would find myself falling “in love” with the model (in a peculiar, non-sexual way) as I was drawing his or her body. I felt like I was arriving at some kind of understanding of the person through their form.
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But we had a troll once who maintained that, since all women are evil and unfeminine and persist at having personalities and stuff, the correct thing for men to do was to put perfume on porcelain dolls and then masturbate to them. You can assume nothing.
Anyway, relief all around that that’s not what you really think!
Here he is. Feast your eyes, Mark! Or maybe shielding them would be wiser.
Ah, the infamous DKM. ::hurl::
markb, that reminds me of life-drawing classes I did way back in the day. Not so much getting an understanding of the person – I was seventeen, I don’t think I thought about other people that much – but the sheer pleasure of the sweeping lines of the human body. My favourite model was a woman in her, oh, fifties maybe, quite round. Drawing her with ink was a delight.
That was when he wasn’t blaming domestic violence victims for “getting themselves killed” (whomever has that link, post it and I’ll add it to my collection…pecunium has it doesn’t he?)
@LBT
Let’s not forget he also wrote a story with a five-year-old girl and her adult lover. I think her name was also Nymph.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of that kind of stuff on “Fundies Say the Darnedest Things.” I think that’s where I came across this blog. Those extreme misogynists always come across like hurt children lashing out with no sense of proportion. I have yet to see a single Men’s Rights Advocate who can say “we need to take another look at the way courts treat fathers in custody disputes” without swerving into “we are the most oppressed group ever in the history of everything”.
FSTDT is great! And since you’re not a troll, have a welcome package.
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…The story was about the adult lover getting arrested and going to jail, right?
Right?