This has to be my favorite quote to come out of the whole Occidental College fiasco; it’s staggering in its moral blindness and fanaticism and its complete lack of self-awareness. It also captures well the peculiarly self-defeating quality of so much Men’s Rights rhetoric and, er, “activism.”
![johntheother [-37] -8 points 3 hours ago (11|19) "‘Men’s rights activists’ conspire to cripple college rape reporting system with false reports" GOOD! Go forward, brothers, and fuck their shit up. rape is a crime. If somebody has a report to file of being the victim of this crime - file that report with a POLICE ORGANIZATION, not with some jumped up kangaroo court or administrative star chamber. And when operating in an environment where the star-chamber rules - FTSU with the same fraudulent reports they've tuned their system to process against you. permalink source save give gold hide child comments [–]O-Fortuna 3 points 35 minutes ago (4|0) This came off so silly and juvenile I thought it was one of the troll comments the mods talked about, but you seem to be some kind of widely known mra. In favor of making false reports. Appalling.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jtoonbrothers.png?resize=535%2C306&ssl=1)
The backstory here: the commenter in question is none other than John “The Other” Hembling, the Number Two (or Three? I can’t tell) boy at A Voice for Men. He’s responding to an article on Raw Story that’s indicative of the incredibly (and justifiably) bad press Reddit MRAs have gotten for spamming Occiental College’s anonymous rape reporting website with false reports of rape, some of which may have named real people at the school as the “perps.”
At this point in the story, even the normally obtuse Men’s Rights Redditors realize they have a disaster on their hands, and are trying to blame anyone else they can.
But Hembling thinks it’s the perfect time to cheer on the false accusers amongst the MRAs.
That’s right: apparently jealous of all the attention Reddit MRAs have gotten for their cloddish “activism,” he’s decided to jump aboard this train — after it’s left the station, derailed, and fallen into a ravine.
That response is classic, too
That is flat-out hilarious. I love how clueless and over-excitable John the Otter is in that post, and also that he thinks Elem’s “Fuck their shit up” is a classic call to action for all their MHRHAH brothers.
One question. What would be the point of filing a report with a POLICE ORGANIZATION if the jury at the resulting trial were intent on fucking women’s shit up and thus determined to vote not guilty regardless of the evidence as the great guru Elam has commanded?
The point? Extra punishment for the woman, I’d guess. Mind you, that’s assuming a level of thinking-it-through I doubt Mr Otter has.
It’s almost as if they don’t give a shit about women or something and want them to suffer regardless of the circumstances.
Fight against false reports… by making more false reports?
Do the MRAs, like, not think this through, at all?
Century of the human ass movement rights?
@hellkell
They should hold a contest where AVFM readers send in press releases that attempt to extricate the movement from this shit storm. The winner is hired on as a full time PR consultant with $300 a year salary.
Alice — thinking, like factual accuracy, is misandry!
Brooked: you know they would probably do that.
No, seriously, Arctic Ape’s was way better. Blake is far better source material, for one thing.
Working 14 hour days.
They were both great!
My arse would totally want that, as long as MRAs weren’t involved.
John the Bother: Proof positive that irony is lost on the ironic.
That’s about 9 cents an hour. X_X
If what this hypothetical PR person comes up with bears any similarity to what they’ve done so far, 9 cents an hour would be an overly generous salary.
Well, they expect their “staff members” to put in 14-hour days (of harassing people on the internet) for no pay, so $300 is a real upgrade.
If you’ll allow me an off-topic moment (well, sort of) I thought folks here would be interested to know Just Detention has a tool you can use to send a holiday card to a prison rape victim to let them know they are not forgotten: http://www.justdetention.org/en/words-of-hope-2013.aspx.
Good thing I decided to stop by manboobz slightly wine-drunk tonight, or I’d be really mad instead of just laughing. Jesus H. Christ you guys.
As an added bonus to John’s embarrassing silliness… uh, what makes you think people filling out those reports aren’t ALSO going to the police? Wasn’t it made it clear that these anonymous reports aren’t for pressing charges? Do they even understand the thing they’re raging against?
No, wait, of course they don’t. Why don’t these guys have an ED page yet?
@grumpycatisagirl
That’s sad and sweet at the same time. Aww 🙁
@baileyrenee They don’t need an ED page. They have their own ED site called AVFM.
What’s an ED page?
What is ED in this context?
Ninja’ed!
oh good. The first thing that leaped to my mind was Eating Disorder.
I thought eating disorder or erectile dysfunction, and knew neither of them could be right!