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.
LOL
Same here.
See, fellas? Even if the friendzone existed. it wouldn’t necessarily be the end of the line (assuming you weren’t the sort of whiny, entitled baby who complained about the “friendzone”).
I always feel complaining about the “friendzone” is mostly just shooting yourself in the foot. Heck, I’ve been “friendzoned” by men and even if they decided I wasn’t a romantic option, I’m still absolutely grateful to have them in my life because they do offer caring, support, and networking with their other friends and who knows that might lead to . . . this is all besides my basic feeling that it is a Good Thing to Have Friends.
FYI, Chrome does not appear to recognize misandry either. Boo hoo.
To be fair, there certainly is sexism against men in the world, it’s just, usually their ideology seems to either promote it, buy into it, or both.
Or to put it another way, misogynists are the worst misandrists I know.
Most girls are probably better at sports than me. I’m klutzy, my glasses kill my depth perception, and I was always afraid of getting hurt.
Used to play soccer in elementary school, but my classmates were bad winners and worse losers, so that really soured me on them.
I almost failed gym class when I dislocated my xiphoid process doing gymnastics. (That’s the little nub of cartilage at the base of the rib cage where the belly stats.) took forever to heal, and couldn’t participate in most gym classes after that.
Oh, look, this guy made a funny! He put it in bold so you’d know, too, and admire his comedic wit as much as he does. I don’t really get it, though, so it’s wasted. Darn. Us women-folk just aren’t as funny as them big, strong, manly men and their penii! I’m pretty sure that’s what testicles are for. To store his sense of humour.
Is he saying that he has superior d***-sucking skills? Is that it? Was he making a joke, or was he just bragging? Is that why he put it in bold? To advertise himself? Clearly, he fancies the men’s team in their cute little uniforms, more, so why doesn’t he just stop worrying about the women-folk and get a boyfriend? I’m sure he’d be a happier person if he did. It must be so awful to be so bitter and hateful all the time…
Any guy complaining about the ‘friendzone’ put himself there, because the friendzone is where you are when you’re dishonest with the woman about what sort of relationship you would like with her. If your only interest with her is sexual, and she is not interested in sex with you, then you should be moving on. If you enjoy her company as a friend AND have feelings of sexual attraction towards her which are not reciprocated, treat her exactly as you do your other friends you’re not sleeping with (say, the guys?), and look for sex elsewhere. Boom. Friendzone (in the MRA sense of the term) goes bye-bye.
That’ll teach him to use catnip eyedrops.
::fistbump:: I was exactly the same about sports. I didn’t want to play them – no interest, and being asthmatic meant I couldn’t run around anyway – but once I got glasses it was worse. My instinct when someone throws a ball in my direction is to get out of the way.
kleptonetic, hi, are you new? Have a Welcome Package. 🙂
Also, yeah, “friendzone,” ugh. It really says a lot about the whinerdude’s attitude: the woman isn’t a person, isn’t someone he wants to be friends with, she’s just a CVLSS (cockblocking vagina life support system).
All this strongly reminds me off the continuing debate over whether dance is a sport. (Hint: It is.) Because OH NO, we can’t have something that’s sport AND art!!
I can’t say it’s a coincidence that dancers’ bodies are hypersexualized, either. (You’re a dancer? That means you’re super-flexible, right? Hooooooot.) It’s an easy way to delegitimize the athletic skill of a female-dominated sport.
Oh my ….Not another pair of angry blue balls…
Dude ! Stop whacking off to the female athletes!
You’re never going to get your hands on one they don’t want you ! Sorry…
@ freemage that comment was so full of win, it should have ended in a mic drop. perfectly sums up how the whole friendzone bullshit needs to be dismissed.
LOL!
So is cheer leading. Id’e like to see these guys be at the top of a human pyramid.
Traction anyone ?
How bout barrel racing ?
So woman-dominated sports are not considered “real legitimate” sports; female athletes are sexualized in a way that male athletes are not; and the only “real legitimate” sports are those that are dominated by men. So even if a woman is a an excellent athlete, if she’s in a sport that is typically characterized as a “woman’s sport (like gymnastics or dancing or figure skating) she’s not considered a “real legitimate” athlete. On one hand, the accomplishments of women athletes are diminished; on the other hand, men athletes are worshipped as paragons of physical virtue (like how we treat football and basketball players here in the US).
And it is from this framework that the OP states “Women suck at sports.”
I…this is really sexist stupidity. Is this an example of privilege blindness, or just plain old stupidity?
these guys logic basically boils down to ” if a women is doing something and I do not get a boner as a result then that something is POINTLESS!”
so you heard it ladies, no filling out tax forms, browsing through paint books, or any other activity that may deprive these poor men of their boners, for the sake of world peace.
I used to get the “I bet you’re super flexible (wink wink)” stuff about gymnastics too. Yes, and like most former gymnasts I’m also much stronger than I look, so don’t piss me off.
I think its more like they DO get a boner .Another lonely boner left out in the cold wind.Exactly where it belongs.
@lana now I can just picture a lonely boner, out in the snow, wrapped up in a woolly jumper. sad violin music is heard as it wanders on through a cold day, just trying to find its way home.
MRAs are also flexible – they can get angry with women for giving them boners, and also for not giving them boners.
For awhile, I admit, I tried to divvy up between ‘sports’ and ‘athletics’ on the grounds that ‘in a sport, you should have an objective means of keeping score’. So football, basketball, etc make the grade because they have goals. Since the judging on a lot of gymnastics, ice skating and so on tends to be subjective, those were simply part of the broader Venn circle of ‘athletics’, but not ‘sport’.
Then I realized the problem with that line of reasoning. To-wit:
A goal in most games requires a specific course of action, with restrictions on that action–it isn’t enough to put the ball through the hoop, you also have to shoot from on the court and not cause a foul while doing it. While the ball-through-the-goal is generally an objective fact (moreso in the age of video, of course), whether or not a foul was committed is usually just as subjective as any Soviet judge’s score in the Olympic Ice Skating events (some of you may be old enough to get that reference). I’ve seen LOTS of goals overturned because a ref felt that a particular action during the lead-up to the goal disqualified it. So really, I was simply favoring the dumbed-down binary system of ‘goal’ sports over the gradated, nuanced scoring of the judged sports.
(Note: Throwing this out there because I’ve occasionally found people still using similar lines of thought; this hopefully provides a helpful line of counter-argument.)
Yes. Fexible enough to punch you in the Adam’s apple wiht my knuckle’s rendering you on your knees gasping for air .
Oh where ,oh where has my little dog gone
Oh where or where can she be………..
AWWWWW>>>>>
Also what are they saying anyway ?
They want women to suck dick bad ?
O.K ..I have sharp teeth .
No problem.
Be careful when you are requesting women to suck at sucking dick . You just might have “bitten off” more than you can chew.(wink)