Men Against Misandry is a blog, and a Facebook page, devoted to the proposition that feminism is misandry.
The anonymous fellow (or fellows) behind the sites, or group, or whatever it is, has apparently decided that the best way to fight the alleged misandry of feminism is with raging misogyny.
I would call it fighting fire with fire, but it’s more like fighting an imaginary campfire with the flaming pits of hell.
The latest post on the Men Against Misandry blog takes on the issue of women athletes, and why they get less attention and money than their male equivalents. Mr. MAM has a fairly simple explanation:
Why are there no truly famous women in sports?
It’s because women suck at sports. Period. We all know there’s only one real professional sports team that anybody actually cares about – the men’s team. Men just let women have their own sports teams to feel better about themselves. That’s just the truth.
I didn’t put that bit in bold. He did. He wanted to make sure we understood just how much he thinks women really suck at sports.
And in case we haven’t gotten the message yet, he continues:
You know that old saying? you throw like a girl!
Well, it’s a saying for a reason. Women just plain suck at sports. If women sucked dick half as well as they suck at sports there would be no more divorces in the great US of A.
Yep, he’s the one that put that last bit in bold, too. Indeed, he was so proud of that last sentence he posted it — just that one sentence — as a separate post on his Facebook page.
It’s all in a day’s work for this noble fighter against misandry.
Thanks to the folks in AgainstMensRights for pointing me to this blog post.
I think he is trying to play on ‘There are no atheists in foxholes’
I’m going to go ahead and assume that the feminists were smart enough to run out of the burning building, while the MRAs were standing around arguing about which particular variety of evil woman must have set fire to it.
Hey, I’m not a Melissa Harris-Perry worshipper, but I thought she published a pretty good “syllabus” about black feminism.
What would you add to this list?
OOps, ninja’d!
Ewww, yes, that makes sense, cloudiah. “You women will turn to big strong men to get you out of burning buildings and sinking ships!” – like physically needing help or offering it has fuckall to do with political beliefs. For that matter, I guess he thinks that women who’ve been helped by men in emergencies are required to give up being feminists and settle down to improve their blowjob techniques, or else they’re being big nasty hypocrites.
I wonder if he’d give up his fuckwittery if he had to be rescued by a woman? But then I guess not, because women save men’s lives all the time and he’s happy to ignore that.
I’m a stealthy ninja, Monster. I wait just long enough for you to think no one else is going to post what you’re thinking, then BLAMMO!!!
So things this guy calls MISANDRY™! as of so far:
– Women saying no to sex (this is apparently UBER divorce-worthy).
– Women in sports (or even — *GASP!* — being better in some sports).
– Women not dying in burning buildings or sinking ships.
That whole feminists-why-do-i-have-to-pay-on-dates is a whole gold mine of dorky “gotcha” questions, such as:
“Why are feminists perfectly okay with night clubs charging men obscene amounts of money to enter, only to let women in for free?”
Yeah, dude, feminism is to blame for that. When it’s even true.
Would it be mean of me to start referring to all the women get free drinks/date men who’re hotter than me/complain about all the jiggling in my favorite games stuff as College Kid Problems?
Of course not. He has such a limited mind that he can’t even recall a single notable female athlete, though there are in fact too many for me to list here. And since his memory is so poor, can his imagination be any better?
Also, I find it hilarious how he thinks someone’s convictions can so readily evaporate in an emergency. One does not cease to be a feminist just because one is trapped in a burning building or on a capsized cruse ship. Sometimes we are the rescuers, sometimes the rescuees, and sometimes neither. None of that has the slightest bearing on the fight against misogyny. Or the fight for social equality.
grumpycatisagirl – But don’t you know? Feminism is to blame for EVERYTHING that angry white dudebros don’t like, from women saying no to sex to white women choosing non-white partners to safety standards that have some sort of benefit for women (e.g. OSHA hate).
If it doesn’t either lead to a woman getting injured or damaged or dead, it’s offensive to men! TOTAL MANLOGIC™!
Wait. I thought women were the cause of divorce by leaving men. I doubt women leave men because of …sucky blow jobs.
The burning buildings thing is probably like the old atheists in fox holes. He means women want special treatment when disaster hits. Dumb and historically inaccurate.
You can’t Poe the Poe men’s movement.
I suppose it’s also never occurred to Baby Einstein that actually, feminists are NOT okay with that, because it’s (a) using women as bait, an ugly variation on objectification, and (b) coupled with cheaper alcohol for the ladies, a date rape or several waiting to happen. I have always felt profoundly uncomfortable in that situation, and very disinclined to take advantage of my supposed female privilege, knowing what the real intent was, and what advantage the truly privileged sex was likely to take.
There’s also the fact that feminism, as an actual political movement rather than an online whinge-fest about how hard it is to get laid, doesn’t spend much time focusing on clubs in general.
cloudiah in action:
http://youtu.be/fzzjgBAaWZw
Welp. Ninja’d all over
Okay, this is a really minor nitpick, but all the other MRAs are always ranting about how divorce is horrible because women initiate divorce 70% of the time and this proves something about either divorce or women.
Well. I doubt the women are divorcing because they are bad at blowjobs, so at most, that’s 30% fewer divorces. (I also doubt that anything near a majority of men who divorce do so because their wife is bad at sex.)
MRAs need to get their talking points straight.
On the topic of Geena Davis: It is horrifying how few women are out there. Even in many stories with female protagonists, she’ll be all alone and all the major supporting characters are male. I love stories with female friends at the heart, but there are so very few.
(My own stories tend to be very female-heavy, even those where the protagonists aren’t lesbians.)
Plus, on a small scale, it suggests to me “Hey, nightclub owners, sounds like your club sucks SO BADLY for women if you have to bribe us to go there. Maybe you should, y’know, try cleaning up your act and have, and enforce, stronger rules about men’s behaviour?”
It also points to men being higher paid than women; whatever the entrance fees are, they’re likely to be a bigger chunk of a woman’s pay packet than a man’s.
That’s me, Kittehs!
I recognised you instantly, cloudiah!
Using Mads and Fribs Furrinaticam to spy on the other manboobzers AGAIN kittehs?
YES! Bwahahahahaha!
http://youtu.be/QlYDg_9C2Jc
Laugh all you want- I can see YOU.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/31/da/c2/31dac26976e15dfee59036665bb91de0.jpg
DINGDINGDINGDING!!! We have a winner!
And yes to the part about the money as well. We’re already likely to have spent way more on our clubbing outfits than the dudes have on theirs. Women’s clothing costs more even though we’re paid less for the same work. With the expectation that we’ll snag a man, settle down, make babies, and forget about independent life forever after. And we’re supposed to find him in those same fucking bars, no doubt.