It’s labor day here in the US of A, a day for picnics, parades honoring our nation’s workers, and going through Fidelbogen’s timeline on Twitter looking for especially obtuse tweets from the always obtuse Men’s Renaissance Agitator and would-be philosopher-king of the Men’s Rights movement.
Yes, I know we just did Fidelbogen the other day, but we’re doing him again.
Because it’s my blog, that’s why!
And it’s worth it. Because Fidelbogen, who apparently fancies himself some sort of evil rhetorical genius taking down feminism with he power of his mighty words, has a knack for saying out loud what a lot of Men’s Rightsers think. As I pointed out the other day, he’s admitted straight up that he’s far more interested in attacking feminists than in actually helping men. Which is clearly the case with most MRAs, as evidenced by their complete and utter lack of accomplishment in the whole “actually helping men” arena.
In his tweets, he often goes further, exposing the dishonest nature of these attacks on feminism. Indeed, a good portion of his tweets are basically him twirling his moustache as he explains the devious trickery he’ll be using to take the evil feminists down.
Here he is in full supervillain mode:
We needn't treat feminists fairly or ethically.Underhanded tricks r the order of the day, BUT. . nothing violent or illegal! #antifeminism
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 15, 2013
One of Fidey’s favorite themes is that he and his MRA buddies can define feminism, so suck on that, femmies!
#Feminism is what WE say it is. And if this doesn't match you, then you are NOT A FEMINIST. Best not call yourself one. #FeministArmy #fem2
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 6, 2013
Indeed, he won’t shut up about it:
Always remember that when we talk about "feminism", we mean #Feminism as WE define that term. #FeministArmy #Fem2 #rapeculture #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 28, 2013
Yeah, dude. Trust us — we know.
And here he suggests he’s far more interested in pulling women down than in raising men up:
Whatever lousy treatment is dished out to men, may fairly be dished out to #women as well. Equality of misery, all the way. #Feminism
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 1, 2013
What’s this? Straight up misogyny?
There are some who would say that #feminism is simply politicized or weaponized female nature. #misogyny #FeministArmy #mensrights #fem2013
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 11, 2013
Oh, sorry, misogyny doesn’t exist.
"Misogyny" is a nonsense word that feminists use when men won't take any crap from them. Misogyny doesn't really exist. @AmandaMarcotte
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 6, 2013
Or … does it?
#Feminism creates more genuine misogyny than any other force on earth. #FeministArmy #misogyny #sexism #women #antifeminism #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) August 8, 2013
Do try to keep your story straight, dude!
Fidey is the master of baffling metaphor:
#Feminism drove women 50 miles out into the country and left them there. That's what you get for taking rides from strangers. #FeministArmy
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 30, 2013
Ok, that didn’t make sense. Let’s try this one:
Whatever is "good" about #Feminism, is like a flower painted on a piss-pot. #FeministArmy #sexism #misandry #antifeminism #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 29, 2013
Huh. Pisspots, however unsavory, do at least serve a useful function. Is Men’s Rights Activism thus the equivalant of peeing on the floor?
Too complicated. Fidey tries a simpler metaphor:
#Feminism is a bloated, bloodsucking tick that must be prised from the social body with a choice set of pliers. #FeministArmy #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 27, 2013
And then marches off into the land of incoherence once again.
Dew from the mill, is milldew. Really. It is. #masculinism #Feminism
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 27, 2013
And then accidentally stumbles upon a truth:
The power of the human brain to block what it doesn't want to know, is hard to exaggerate. #subjectivism #Feminism #collectivism #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 29, 2013
Read that one over again, Fidey, and take a good hard look at yourself.
But The Fluffington Post was already taken.
And a much better publication that is!
I love their little New Yorker bunny logo. 😀
90% of the material on the Huffington Post is perfectly good reporting. And then the other 10% seems to have been reprinted from teenagers’ blogs. It’s baffling.
Their health reporting is…odd.
Twitter should have a breathalyzer before posting.
#gohometwitteryouredrunk
Hi, Bunny Ninjim. The same thing depresses me. Every youtube video where a woman says she is a feminist, every online article about feminism, the comment section is full of uninformed rants on the level of “feminism is a communist plot”. I figured this was an MRA tactic, filling up comment sections with their world view, and it doesn’t really represent how the majority of people feel, but I’m afraid it might influence some people to think it IS the majority opinion.
And it’s downright unpleasant to encounter so frequently.
Never read YouTube comments. It could be the most adorable kitten video ever, but somewhere in there you’ll find “Obama is a MOOOOSLIN” and “women are c*nts” somewhere. It’s all bored teenagers trolling, most likely, but it is galling. Which is why my rule is very firm: Never read YouTube comments.
Instead just look at titianblue’s
pantherscats.I wish I could follow that rule. Instead curiosity will get the better of me, I’ll read them, and then be disgusted.
And I agree it can be very frustrating to see so much antifeminist, MRA crap online. It really is everywhere. But like others said, it seems bigger than it is because the extremist MRA’s are just very loud.
Yeah, I’m sure it’s the activism most MRAs indulge in most frequently, plastering the online landscape with anti-feminist screeds.
But it’s not just youtube videos. I recall Paul Elam going testerical over 52 downvotes at Reddit on the obit of a woman who worked for shelters for men. It could only be the work of evil feminists, not men who downvote anything that praises a woman.
But when there was an obit in Huffington Post for a feminist who had (as it happens) been an editor for Ms. the one person who wrote along the lines of “feminism was needed then”, got told that she was probably a lonely woman in her 50’s who wondered all her life why men didn’t like her. (This is just one example that irked me.)
(Is saying “testerical” okay, as a joke, do you think?)
I thought philosophers should at least know how to actually write, read and get his or her thoughts across without sounding like a toddler. Oh….never mind we are talking about MRA ‘philosophers’.
“Yeah, I’m sure it’s the activism most MRAs indulge in most frequently, plastering the online landscape with anti-feminist screeds.”
What else are you going to do when you can’t get a date?
Play video games? Tend to 120~ gallons of aquariums and a dozen plants including some sorta demanding ones? Read? Perfect a strong but sweet coffee? Maybe engage in some artistic endeavors? Watch reruns? Make a habit of horror movies? (Horrors of War was terrible, almost bad enough to cycle back into so bad it’s funny [The Tunnel was just plain pointless, there wasn’t even enough to hope it got better, but I was elbow deep in potting soil so I left it on])
Fidelbogen’s brain is so well shielded, Vault-Tec took notes.
LOL!
@kittehserf – Peau d’Âne is the tale you’re thinking of. (With the dresses the colour of the sky, the moon, and the sun. Or, in one version, The Sun, The Moon, and Time, which is way cooler, imho.)
God, I hope so!
That’s the one! I haven’t read it, I just know the name ‘cos it was Stepson the Elder’s favourite tale when he was a little kid. 🙂
Speaking of underhanded tactics, John Hembling (who used to scream bloody murder any time anyone used his real name) is doxxing again, spreading the personal info of FemiTheist Divine in hopes that it will make it hard for her to find a job. Now, she did say some reprehensible shit, but I’m pretty sure she was trolling and, really?
It just seems weird that AVFM still loves doxxing so much when some of its principals still insist on anonymity or have other sort of secrets that they don’t want to get out. Especially since some of the things they think are secret aren’t actually as secret as they think, if you catch my drift.
One of the things that MRAs have claimed for years is that feminists don’t actually do anything except complain about the patriarchy on the interwebs. It’s kinda like street harassment. If you don’t see it you have no idea it is happening. So having decided that the sum total of activism is pissing and moaning on the interwebs Fiddly felt up to the challenge and an activist, by his definition, was born.
I clicked over on AVfM to read the doxxing, but couldn’t get past the picture. They must pay for a license from Offensive & Triggering Photos of Brutalized Women.com.
Hembling and the rest of them are such hypocrites.
“Milldewed Masculinism” would be a great book title.
As long as you have plenty of brain bleach at the ready.
@kittehserf, If you ever have the chance to see the film from the 70s, you should just for the way they do the dresses.
“Testerical” is awesome!
I admit–I’m generally pretty okay with doxxing, for certain activities–and one of them IS trolling, so no, I don’t think FemiTheist Divine gets a pass on that account. I do think there’s something of a ‘statute of limitations’, though, and her really offensive stuff is well over a year old and much of it’s apparently been redacted–which IS something that should be factored into the decision to dox. OTOH, for anyone remotely connected to the MRM to whine about doxxing is hypocrisy of the highest order; outside of the ‘big names’ who make a tidy sum selling books to suckers, the rest of them squeal like vampire centipedes when you flip over the rocks they hide under and expose them to sunlight.