So my post yesterday pointed out a rather extravagantly misogynistic post by the Men’s Rights Activist behind the blog Men Against Misandry. If you read it, you probably remember the money quote from his post, which he was so proud of he posted separately on Facebook:
If women sucked dick half as well as they suck at sports there would be no more divorces in the great US of A.
Today a new commenter here on Man Boobz, evidently an MRA irritated that I had quoted his comrade, posted a link to a discussion on the Men’s Rights subreddit that went up a couple of hours ago, and that specifically disavowed this quotation, declaring “This is NOT who we are, and this is NOT Okay.” The thread, when last I checked, had gotten nearly 800 upvotes from the Men’s Rights regulars.
I thought to myself, “wow, a rare moment of self-reflection, and self-policing, from MRAs!”
But then I started reading the comments.
Many of the Men’s Rights regulars seemed less bothered by the reference to blow jobs in itself than by the implication that better blow jobs would lower the divorce rate. Because, you see, most divorces are initiated by women for nefarious womanly reasons.
As JoshTheAspie put it:
Meanwhile, here’s one of the top comments in the thread, and the discussion it spawned. Notice the reaction to sad_woman, after she offers a criticism of uberpower’s “argument.” Also, notice uberpower’s own reaction.
If you’re puzzled by RZRtv’s cryptic comment, he is suggesting that sad_woman go back to the ShitRedditSays subreddit, a subreddit devoted to calling out various bigotries on Reddit, and which is regarded by most of Reddit with the same sort of wild-eyed horror and contempt with which Men’s Rightsers regard Man Boobz.
Knucker2, meanwhile, thought that the dick-sucking reference detracted from Men Against Misandry’s other truly valuable points:
As you may recall from my post yesterday, the main point of Men Against Misandry’s “argument” was that women suck at sports. Indeed, the title of his post was “Gender inequality in sports: male athletes paid more. (HINT: women’s sports suck)”
And then there was this enlightening exchange, featuring none other than A Voice for Men’s TyphonBlue and her signature brand of double-reverse whammy logic:
First of all, Young_Ocelot — who seems a bit naive even for a young ocelot — WHY WOULD YOU THINK ANYONE WOULD ASSUME ALL MEN THINK THIS WAY?! No one thinks that all men are raving misogynistic douchebags. However, there are quite a few people who think that a significant portion of Men’s Rights Activists are. For evidence, I would suggest reading, well, this post, or any of my other posts, or even the thread you were posting in.
And Typhon, poor deluded Typhon, do you really think that if someone wrote a HuffPost column arguing that if men were half as good at eating pussy as they were at sucking at sports the divorce rate would drop, they’d get applause? That doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense.
And even if you adjust the “gender swap” a bit it doesn’t work. If men were half as good at eating pussy as they were at, I dunno, failing to ask for directions when they get lost while driving, there would be no divorce? Huh?
If Men’s Rights Activists were half as good at actually calling out their own misogyny as they are at loudly denying their misogyny while at the same time saying blatently misogynistic shit, well, I might have to shut down this blog.
EDITED TO ADD: BONUS BIGOTRY! The guy who posted the “this is not who we are” post to the Men’s Rights subreddit, our old nemesis Chris3992m, also recently posted this in the White Rights subreddit. When he was called out for this on AgainstMensRights, he explained that “I only post when there are real issues of white discrimination.”
He also believes that “[m]ost whites during the slave era were actually treated WORSE than the slaves. They had to work for the slaves, because they couldn’t be bought and sold and were considered useless by slaveowners.”
EDITED TO ADD AGAIN: Since I wrote this post, more Men’s Rights Redditors have posted comments more directly disavowing the misogyny of the original “blowjob” quote. If they are sincere about trying to remove the stain of misogyny from the Men’s Rights movement, I would suggest that they also try to convince the subreddit’s mods to remove the links to blatantly misogynistic and hateful websites like A Voice for Men from the subreddit’s sidebar, and that they do a better job of policing the misogyny that pervades the subreddit, many examples of which can be found by looking through the Man Boobz archives for Reddit here.
@LBT, A bird, I hope, is among the animals. Any nominations?
Hey, LBT, I just sent you $20 for a secretary bird, because they are amazing, and could only be enhanced by fricking laser beams.
Or a hedgehog. Hedgehogs are good too.
Hippo cookies!
SECRETARY BIRD!!!
Yes, secretary bird!
Do we have any reptiles or amphibians among our borg creatures?
O.K then .They need to stop squawking about “false rape ” charges.
Did anybody else read that and think of the Black Dagger Brotherhood?
Well I’m a hawk tiger. I have to wear reading glasses now but I’m still a hawk .And I’m a tiger because besides elephants and whales they are my “favorite” animal . BUT Im also a tree ..LOL!!!
Never mind. I do like sugar cookies .
Simon wrote a sequel Sex & Power: A Manual on Male-Female Relations, while cooling his heels in prison for publishing racially inflammatory materials.
Bonus points to the British jury for making a Muslim women their foreperson, because Simon was clearly put-off by it (“This was evidently their idea of a joke”).
I admit I have weird fascination with the far right, I’m flat-out addicted to Right Wing Watch, so I have a stronger stomach then most when it comes to bigoted sludge like Simon.
@LBT
I’ll put money in to make cyborg rat happen.
@ LBT,
When you say you’re going to do a Rex cat, do you mean Devon Rex, Cornish Rex, or one of the smaller breads like Selkirk rex? Or by Rex, do you just mean “royal”
‘Cause, if you haven’t decided, I want to put in a suggest for devon rexs, because:
(Okay, this comment was just an excuse to post devon rex videos. My parents have two, they are excellent cats.)
It amuses me to think of SImon screeching “I am the powerful one! Women and minorities are naturally inferior and should obey me!” from his jail cell.
Not even a jail cell.
Screeching through a blizzard holding his penis. Freezing cold hungry AND no time to think about his dick (even though he will even if it causes his life) .
Saying IM COLD ! And hungry! and …….my dick …..
Cuz you know sex(for men) is on the scale (level) of breathing and food and water right?Its even before bodily safety.
Wordsp1nner,
Beautiful cats.
So fun !
Love them!
Oh, but of course. Women daring to consider a man physically appealing (or not)? MISANDRY! They’re just supposed to flop down on their backs and spread ’em after the requisite display of social dominance…in this dude’s case, evidenced by loud and dull bigoted haranguing. To do anything else is MISANDRY!
Oh yeah Im ready to breed ! NOT!
I’d still be amused if kangaroo rats end up being Borged™. *nod*
Wordsp1nner – Devon Rex kitties for the win!
This Simon chucklefuck is a classic example of the dud(e) who thinks he’s the protagonist in everyone else’s life. Or rather, in women’s. Everything we do, or don’t do, is about him.
So pleased this little slimebag’s done time for his shit. Even more about the Muslim woman heading the jury! Sometimes there really is justice.
I wonder if the jurors said, “Fuck yeah, this guy’s a racist creep, let’s really piss him off!” when chosing who’d lead. One can only hope. 😉
“Simon wrote a sequel Sex & Power: A Manual on Male-Female Relations”
Because the person most qualified to tell you how relationships work is a guy who already wrote an entire book about his failed attempts to pick up women.
vaiyt – How dare you suggest that men are not experts on women? MISANDRY!™
If he subtitled his books “How Not To Do It” he might have a point.
Bizarro World for Dummies!
He’s barely a footnote in my life.
7b Read, briefly laughed at, forgot 5 minutes later
“and start raising awareness about male suicide, maybe raise some funds for homeless men, perhaps discuss how toxic ideas of masculinity are harmful to young boys.”
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2007/12/10/the-lesson-of-the-butterfly/
The Lesson of the Butterfly
December 10, 2007 by Paulo Coelho
By Paulo Coelho
A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still.
The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled.
The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight.
What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings.
Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny.
(Adapted from a story sent in by Sonaira D’Avila)
So rather than have a conversation, Mejas prefers to just cryptically spout quotes that all amount to nothing more than a fancy way to tell men to “Man up!”
Why does Mejas hate men?
“Why have an MRM?”