Want to earn yourself some quick karma points on Reddit? It’s easy! Just post some terrible misogynistic comic and wait for the inevitable upvotes. Like this one, which combines some standard-issue victim-blaming rape apologism with a bit of racism and serves it all up in terribly drawn cartoon form, and collect dozens of upvotes!
Or this one, which also, er, touches on issues of race. Did I mention something about dozens of upvotes? This one got hundreds!
Yes, that’s right, a barely coherent cartoon protesting “race-mixing” did indeed get hundreds of upvotes on the Men’s Rights subreddit.
EDITED TO ADD: Ah; the reason it’s so incoherent is that it’s a racist remake of an anti-racist cartoon.
And this one got thousands of upvotes for its amazing insights into gender relations.
Officially, according to the Men’s Rights subreddit sidebar, it’s against the rules there to post “rage comics, or other low-effort image posts. Mods may remove these at their discretion.” Apparently these all count as “high-effort.”
“I’d hope it’s not real malachite, since that stuff is toxic.”
Oh it’s plenty toxic. Jury’s out on carcinogenic effect, but definitely don’t want to play with it while pregnant (nor, it seems, for extended periods before becoming pregnant)…stuff’s nasty. It kills a parasite that encysts in fish skin and gills, it needs to be nasty. (It’s incredibly toxic to fry and scaleless fish too actually, it’s a fine line with certain species and I’m being extremely careful with puff’s tank, nothing in there has been in another tank that’s held fish [some of it was in the snail tank, but they, afaik, can’t carry it]…so unless he came with a sub click infection, he’s never getting it)
Sub click? Fuck you autocorrect I said “subclinical”, latent would also be an acceptable term. Sub click is not!
@Marie
She is a great character!
@Myoo
Thank you very much. I had this in mind: http://manboobz.com/2012/02/19/mens-rights-in-the-real-world-no-one-showed-up-to-the-event-but-organizers-say-the-lack-of-attendance-is-not-due-to-a-lack-of-interest/
@Alice
I changed my intention (>.>) to what cloudiah said, so I do not know what you are talking about!
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it.
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I am not sure if my skin is sensitive, just dry. Constantly dry. Raising my body temperature causes me to itch uncontrollably everywhere until I cool off or.break a sweat. After exercising regularly, though, that seems to go away. So, I suppose it is ultimately my fault if it continues. Haha.
Actually, that does not seem related to dry skin. I have no idea why it happens, then.
Isn’t telling someone who just got robbed “you should have just locked your door” kind of douchey itself? Who hasn’t forgotten to lock their car’s door at least once?
The second just doesn’t make any sense, although I totally am changing my user name to Pony Loving Mangina.
I kind of wish that I liked MLP just because it seems to annoy so many conservatives so much, but alas it’s just too cutesy for me.
As a proud member of The League of Short People Who Have Trouble Reaching Stuff, why only yesterday I asked the fella if he could get me my suitcase from the top of the wardrobe. In order to avoid the inevitable power disparity that would result from this request, I promptly made him a sandwich.
Also, won’t that guy in the first comic feel really awful when the woman says: “My husband locked me out of the house because I wouldn’t make him a sandwich.”
Seriously, the poor woman is in her underthings!
“Who hasn’t forgotten to lock their car’s door at least once?”
Me! (I don’t drive)
And yet I think it’d be a douche move.
The first cartoon reminded me of this guy I knew in high school who one day came into school bragging about how he had stolen some stuff from some guys car. He claimed that he did it to teach the guy a lesson, because the car owner had left his window open. He said that he only took a few CDs and then left a note saying something like the car owner was lucky that he didn’t steal anything of value and that he should close his window next time. I thought it was a dick move and horribly immoral, but most everyone seemed to think that he had done some great and righteous act.
I don’t understand the kind of moral system that puts more blame on the victim of a crime than the perpetrators, but it seems to be a kind of thinking that’s pretty popular in the USA.
Wow, look at how differently they drew the two crime victims, too. The man is just standing there, turned towards the people he’s talking to (and away from the audience)…a normal person. The woman is wearing a bikini, facing the audience and posed in a sexualized position with her arms behind herself, jutting her chest forward. That alone says a lot about the person who drew this comic, before we even get to the racist buzzwords included in the text. The male gaze, it is a thing.
Also, I rearrange the furniture in my apartment all on my own, thank you very much. I also assembled the majority of it myself (many bookshelves, two entertainment centers, a microwave cart, two computer desks, end tables, and a dresser). I can also change tires and the oil in my car.
In very general terms, it tends to be people who are most invested in “traditional gender roles” who behave like the woman in the third comic. You know who else is invested in maintaining traditional gender roles? MRAs. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
I thought it was generally a good show for children. The core group has a nice variety of personality types and goals, and the jokes are simple without being too obvious.
Some of the episodes I find problematic, but this is probably not the time or place.
What I have totally failed to do is attempt to appropriate it for myself and exclude people who aren’t like me. I know, I’m an awful failure of a nerdboy.
And anything that annoys conservatives and is not harmful of itself is all right by me.
@Walter
He had to teach that “sucker” a lesson because a note saying, “be careful about leaving your windows open” wouldn’t be enough.
Yeah, that guy just wanted to steal and then crow about it and get some attention. What a loser.
Some asshole yanked my wallet out of my pocket at school once. To be fair, I’d stuck it in a breast pocket in a fit of absent-mindedness.
Same asshole stole money from my brother by asking him for change and then claiming he’d given my brother the amount he asked for (i.e., for change for a $20 he gave $5 and claimed he’d given $20).
Or the guy who apparently blacked out Detroit on September 11 this year “to teach a lesson.”
@Falconer,
That guy needs to be arraigned yesterday. He should be hit with, at the very least, a charge of reckless endangerment multiplied by the number of people in the affected area.
… Falcon not count that high. 🙁
More MRA-endorsed cartoonage in context here.
OP is a link to a fairly simplistic cartoon trying to explain the difference between equality and justice by showing how equal treatment does not always promote fair outcomes.
IMULTRAHARDCORE shows that, in MRA-land, fair treatment equates to cutting off peoples’ legs. Or something. It’s a little unclear.
My favorite comment in the thread comes from croc-o-dile:
FEMINISTS STOLE MY ICE CREAM!
Back when I was a kid, I shared a car with our younger brother, and he never, EVER locked the doors. It was maddening, and I made a habit of never leaving anything in the car because I was positive it’d get stolen, and I couldn’t come out multiple times a day just to neurotically check the car locks.
Aaaaand of course eventually someone DID break into our car. Only it was one of our brother’s drunk friends, who just moved seats and mirrors around and slopped liquor everywhere, making the car reek of booze.
Our brother was furious, mostly because he worried our parents would think he’d been drinking and driving. And I was like, “THIS IS WHY YOU LOCK THE FUCKING CAR.”
But that was me literally reminding him multiple times, and him always shrugging me off with, “Aw, nothing’s going to happen.” And it was still a dick move on the part of our brother’s friend.
Regarding stealing from the car with the open windows — the apt above mine in my first apt had an unsecured wireless printer, I was always tempted to print, in huge font, “put a password on me!” to the thing. Because yeah, leaving a note about stupidity isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Stealing to make the point is.
Argenti: I’ve occasionally heard of people tapping into open Wi-Fi networks and changing the name to something like, “Learntosetapassword”. This sort of thing amuses me. MRA-style victim-blaming? Not so much.
Yeah, I got told that if I did it that it’d be white hat hacking (as opposed to black hat) cuz it’s harmless and good advice. But I knew that my printer randomly spitting out paper would freak me right the fuck out, so I didn’t do it.
I had my wifi “unsecured” in that you could connect to the network itself without a password, the router and such were behind a password wall, but borrowing my bandwidth was fine by me (I had pretty good speeds and no cap so I figured I’d leave it open for anyone who needed access since the building was almost entirely broke college students [and recent immigrants, some of whom had adorable children *squee*])
I consider open networks to be gifts from above; I can’t imagine punishing folks for bestowing them upon me.
Yeah I kept the router itself password protected, but the wireless was open. No cost to me, potential benefit to others, so why not?
I…
Shit.
One more in the “how fucked up can this planet be” column….
TW for rape, abuse, overt misogyny:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2013/09/christopher_jackson_branded_hi.php