Here — above and below — are a couple of amazing works of Men’s Rightsy propaganda I missed in my survey of deviantART yesterday, both from a fellow calling himself alexlartwork22. And, yes, they both seem to be meant completely seriously.
Thanks, Tulgey Logger and Cloudiah for finding these! Is anyone else reminded of Chick Tracts here? The crude drawing, the melodrama, the excessive word balloons?
My post yesterday inspired (or at least provided the excuse for) rather a lot of comments, many of them rebutting a Men’s Rightsy fellow calling himself Good. Below, a graphic from Katz memorializing one of Good’s more, er, memorable pronouncements.
Well, I do need rent money, and I do need food money, and a laptop battery money, and new external hard drive money, and book money, and medication money, and clothes money… oh well, time to pimp myself up pretty and put myself out there…
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… put myself out there for a job, you MRA dumbasses.
(Oh, by the way, my interview went well, I think. Now I have to wait about two weeks for the results. I’m crossing my fingers.)
Not gonna lie; I’m pretty amused by the seriously overwrought dude in the second panel of that first piece of, erm, “art.” Really, wth is meant to be going on with his spine? I think our artist needs some time perusing Escher Girls.
Except I’m pretty sure Escher Girls is misandry.
I’m pretty sure if that I’d run the fuck away from a floating dollar sign, not chase it.
David Futrelle,
Man I’m glad that I don’t think this propaganda is going to convince any of the uninitiated. Seriously, these people shouldn’t quite their day jobs.
Stop ignoring the ALOT, Dave. It feels neglected.
Is it wrong I think it’s a good thing that feminism dismantled toxic “manhood” and burned chivalry?
I’m alot ashamed that I forgot to mention the alot.
Marriage is special treatment.
Haha.
Does this guy realize he drew…well, pasted together… a feminist comic? Replacing chivalry with equality is exactly what we’re going for here.
The women are shown destroying “Manhood” and the guys say that that’s what they liked about women.
This comic is sending some mixed messages.
Is it me, or does he sign his name in the same font used for Grand Theft Auto titles?
And if everything goes right, then all you have to do to see baby sweetness is click on my username.
Success!
Also, what’s “NO MORE OR CLEANING”? That typo bothers me.
Pretty sure the women of the world will survive without the things on that list. Since when was chivalry a feminist thing? I guess they believe that any concept or cultural action that involves being nice to women is feminist. It’s almost like they stop listening when a woman talks.
Also, I’m with Chie Satonaka on this one. Marriage is one of the most dangerous things women undergo.
I think my grammar might be a wee bit terrible.
Shaenon,
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Does this guy realize he drew…well, pasted together… a feminist comic? Replacing chivalry with equality is exactly what we’re going for here.
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What women want equality? You don’t say. 😉
In all seriousness knowing your average MRA he probably thinks that women want to dominate.
Falconer,
Just precious! I want to chew in their legs. (I’m a mom, I can say that. :D)
Kristine,
Good point,
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Pretty sure the women of the world will survive without the things on that list. Since when was chivalry a feminist thing?
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Good point, the medieval view of women was backwards, like their views on religious freedom and how an economy should operate.
So I’ve been paging through alexlartwork22’s work, and it’s actually a bit unusual. Almost everything he’s done has a political element, but most of it is anti-racist or pro-black community (bordering on separationism at times). When he does get into sexual politics, it’s actually sort of odd. The MRA tropes are there, but they come from a different place.
Because of the sexism/racism admixture that most MRAs exhibit, I’d never even considered the prospect of black MRAs, let alone how their backgrounds might inform their beliefs. Alexl doesn’t quite go in for the whole package – for instance, he rejects pick-up artistry and the alpha/beta division, concepts that he feels have damaged his community. On the other hand, he fully embraces evo-psycho crap about women being status seekers, which leads him to employ horrible stereotypes of black women that even most white MRAs won’t drag out.
ON their legs, ON!!! (Unless that makes you uncomfortable, I’ve never actually chewed on baby legs, but those rolls are so cute, I can’t stand it!!!
auggziliary – Grand Theft Auto. Their game titles are quite distinct, and it’s emulated in this guy’s… uh… “signature”.
Anyways: MRAs. Looking for excuses to treat women like shit since the 1970s (if not earlier),
“All I wanted was 3 things..3 things!!!”
And those are?
“Women have destroyed the very things we loved about them”
Does he mean that men are only capable of loving a financially dependent keeper of the house (cooking and cleaning)? I thought men “always hated buying them flowers and candy?” Isn’t a woman who lives off a man’s income a lazy gold-digger who’s managed to trap some beta male into bankrolling her bon-bon eating?
sparky – You get the feeling that MRAs want an unequal playing field: a world where women are their subservant slaves or whatever serving their needs only and hiding in a closet somewhere where they are not needed. They want a place where women are like robots, always working to serve her master and never having any thoughts or needs or desires of her own. And they don’t want to have to provide for her, but they want her dependent on them for everything, from her food to her clothes to her opinion on everything.
auggziliary – Ah. To that question, I wish I knew.
@augg: Because he’s obviously a
n internet man-whinerbadass moneyfondler.You guys might enjoy this r/mr FIGHT!FIGHT!FIGHT! over some artistry by typhonblue and MR-Edmonton. (They have a joke political campaign to run a candidate for city council as part of the Patriarchy Party, with 4chan-level humor and art.)