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.
the arsenal and Qpr football teams would also like to talk.
Ugh, and his previous post about ‘victim blaming’ he makes that tired old analogy about the rich man walking through the ghetto and getting mugged, and how this is the equivalent to a woman getting paralytic at a bar and being raped.
Well, as far as I can see, if a wealthy man gets mugged in a deprived neighborhood people might well say he acted foolishly, but I can’t see him being accused of having given all his stuff away willingly, or his muggers not being prosecuted for theft and allowed to keep all the valuables on the grounds that the guy was asking to be mugged.
News flash- these awesome male athletes are not you. Just like those men who killed mammoths and built/designed bridges are not you. Could you defeat Serena Williams in a tennis match….?
This was the first thing that struck me, too. Women initiate most divorces, so his joke doesn’t even make any sense.
MRAs hate the idea of girls and women participating in sports, because it builds physical confidence and ownership of your body, thus making it harder for them to treat women like chattel.
Even setting aside the vast hordes of accomplished female athletes who could kick this guy’s butt eight ways to Sunday: just because you aren’t world-class at something, it does not logically follow that you “suck” and should stop doing it. People play sports at all levels for fun, enjoyment, and exercise, regardless of their abilities. For instance, in the winter I like to go figure skating on the local pond because it gives me happiness and fresh air. I’m not going to stop just because someone tells me I can’t do a triple axel and that it’s taking valuable attention away from their boner.
I bet this guy thinks all activities done by women are completely pointless if they don’t result in eruptions of “liquid gold”.
But don’t you see? If a woman is bad at blowjobs (or god forbid doesn’t perform on command) the man will have literally no option but to treat her badly/cheat on her which the ebil womymm will then use against him to get a divorce and all his man gold.
There are only a few Real Sports™. Football (not soccer), Baseball and Basketball. Maybe Hockey. Football again. WOO FOOTBALL YEAH. To be a Real Sport™, it must have a team, a multi-billion dollar budget, a national league legally exempt from monopoly laws, be on ESPN and take place in America.
No women play these sports because I don’t see women playing these sports on TV.
Therefore women are bad at sports.
Also, don’t forget that if women are good at sports then they’re ugly and unfuckable.
(Because their being strong and athletic makes boners feel small and insecure.)
Things that men enjoy = real things
Things that women enjoy = fake things
Please see: games, sports, media, etc.
Reasonable explanation = women are lesser humans, trans people are confusing. IT ALL FINALLY MAKES SENSE!
“trans people are confusing”
To be fair, I can never figure out where I fit in their little binaries. I mean, I wear heeled boots and ties, can work all sorts of power tools (and successfully design and build an aquarium sump, go me!) or change a diaper one handed, w00t for math but art minor…and we all know math and art are incompatible (ARGH MATH IS ART AND MATH MAKES ART GREAT!! *rants about the golden ratio and fractals*)
So yeah, they confuse me as much as I confuse them. Also, math. And art. And art made using math.
I can’t help wondering what this dweeb’s thoughts on lingerie football are. I’m guessing it’s a short-circuit of his two brain cells.
See also: synchronized swimming. I dare any football (American Football) player to try it and tell me it’s easy to lift your fellow teammates fully out of the water while keeping yourself steady and holding your breath for more than a minute, and make it look graceful and controlled to boot.
But I mean, it doesn’t involve smushing people into the ground so who gives a shit, amirite? /sarcasm
I kind of tend to think another part of the “women suck at sports” assumption comes primarily from guys who’s only real experience with watching women play any sports was in gym class in school (cause I mean, they won’t be caught dead watching a WNBA game).
Which, I mean, in my experience, even a lot of the sporty girls in my gym class when I was in high school wouldn’t play to their best abilities because:
1) No one gives a shit about gym class
2) Dudes assume all the girls suck anyway and play around them and won’t give them a chance to play
That reminds me of tenth grade gym. I was in the class that was basically advertised as yoga, pilates, etc., so the year before it had been all women. That year, there were three boys (track stars), and they spent the whole semester mocking us for being slow and bad at sports (I was about half their height, so no, I’m not going to run that fast). They were assholes.
So one of them starts showing off by doing handstands, and then I retaliate with a couple of my tricks–scorpion pose, crane pose, one-handed cartwheels, etc. I regretted not being able to do balk walkovers anymore.
He just stared at me like he was totally surprised that I could do anything. It’s like , dude, I spent years in rhythmic gymnastics and yoga and my flexibility is shot now but I can still remember some of the moves. You’re a track star, stay off my turf if you don’t want to be shown up.
Argenti Aertheri
But but but….we sort of vaguely accept trans to be thing! Now you’re telling me we need even more boxes to neatly slot people into?!?!?! NOT SEEING THE WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE STOP OPPRESSING ME
Hmm, I think….is nearly as good as the famous..
I is cat, if I fits, I sits. I no fit in box, so I claw it, k? =^.^=
I’m now going to go decorate for Christmas, which should be fun as I just heard my brother yelling like the actual cat was trying to eat his eyes, wonder what I’m missing…
All this time I thought marital problems were the result of various conflicts that arose within the marriage. Thank god that someone informed me that it was really all about wives not being good enough at sucking!
It makes you wonder what goes down in homosexual couples that divorce though…
Also, yeah, I thought MRAs were all hung up on women being the ones who divorced their poor undeserving husbands because they wanted to chase alpha cock or some other such nonsense. Is consistent messaging also misandry?
The fact that you’re asking if consistent messaging is misandry is also misandry.
(It makes me unreasonably happy that firefox spelling doesn’t recognise misandry as a word. I love you squiggly red line.)
That’s actually another one of the dorky gotcha questions in the dude’s why-do-I-have-to-pay-for-dates post: “Why isn’t the word misandry recognized by spell-check?”
Right below “Why are alimony laws still based on draconian conventions created in a time when women were incapable of working for themselves?” and right above “Why are men 93% of all workplace fatalities?”
“The fact that there are no feminists out there demanding answers to these questions is proof that they are not after equality at all.” Proof! Because his blog post says so!
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That makes me love the red squiggly line EVEN MORE. Delicious delicious bro tears.
Also what year exactly did women become ‘capable’ of working ‘for themselves’.
Are men 93% of nursery fatalities? Oh I forgot, feminazis prevent men from working in all the poorly paid exhausting caring professions.
Misandry is a non-thing, therefore it is a non-word.
Also, I love you, dotted red line.
On Twitter, @jembloomfield asks the far more important question:
The word “mythandry” immediately reminded me of Looney Tunes.
Daffy Duck: “That’th MYTHANDRY! You’re dethpickable!” [spittle flies]