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A Voice for Men vs the Table of Misandry. Also: MAN BOOBZ SLIGHTLY BEFORE CHRISTMAS ART CONTEST

It's coming for you! RUN!
It’s coming for you! RUN!

Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath to hear what the “editors” of our favorite men’s rights hate site, A Voice for Men, think of the Occidental College fiasco can now unbate their breath, as AVFM head boy Paul Elam has stepped forward to explain it all to us in a post that contains quite possibly the most ridiculous two sentences ever written about higher education:

The modern academic climate in the United States can be likened to a table that rests on four legs. Those legs are rape hysteria, demonization of men, fraudulent academic feminism and the continual erosion of due process for men and other Constitutional principles.

Yep, an actual adult human being sat down and typed those sentences out, looked at them and said, yep, that looks good to me, and then posted them on his website.

In honor of these two sentences, I would like to announce the HISTORIC MAN BOOBZ SLIGHTLY BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2013 TABLE OF MISANDRY ART CONTEST.

Your challenge: Draw a picture of that table, and post it in the comments below.

I will post the best pictures, and possibly also the worst, in a followup post.

Nothing else in Elam’s post quite lives up to the GIANT TABLE OF ACADEMIC MISANDRY, but there is some other bullshit worth mentioning.

Elam makes a big point of saying that

AVFM was not engaged in this particular event, nor do we officially endorse what happened. We do not denounce it, either.

The event in question, in case you haven’t been following the controversy, involved a bunch of idiot MRAs and other misogynists from the Men’s Rights subeddit and 4chan flooding Occidental College’s anonymous rape reporting website with false reports of rape in order to break the system;  the school ended up having to sort through at least 400 such reports.

After Elam lays out his “official” position of neutrality on the “event” he goes on to say that because Occidental’s rape reporting system sits atop his metaphorical TABLE OF MISANDRY

it not only should be a target, it necessarily will be because a long-due backlash against the processes that put it there is emerging from many corners of society. That backlash is 100% justified. Indeed, that backlash can perhaps be seen as proof that we may have reason to hope for society yet.

Yeah, that kind of, sort of, just a teensy bit, sounds like an endorsement of the false reports.

As did the comment from AVFM “Editor-in-Chief” John “The Other” Hembling the other day, in which he wrote of the MRAs spamming Occidental:

GOOD! Go forward, brothers, and fuck their shit up.

And apparently Hembling took his own words to heart; the teaser for his own post on the subject at AVFM — which can currently be seen at the top of this page — declares that he was one of those who had trolled Occidental with fake reports.

So AVFM doesn’t endorse the false allegations, but it sees the backlash of which it is a part as a sign that there might be hope for humanity after all.

And AVFM didn’t engage in posting false allegations — oh, except for its Editor-in-Chief, whose participation in the trolling AVFM trumpeted on its front page.

Good job, guys.

There’s a lot more bullshit in the post, but it’s the night before the night before Christmas, and I’ve had enough of MRAs for now.

Happy holidays. May yours be MRA-free!

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Quackers
Quackers
10 years ago

Happy holidays David and the manboobz community! Hope you all have a good one 🙂

grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago

Oh, it’s such a breath of fresh air when the MRAs are hilarious, especially when it’s one of their most prominent. Won’t you all grab a hard chair and join me at this beautiful table?

kittehserf
10 years ago

The Dining Suite of Misandry! All we need now is the Crockery and Cutlery of Misandry and the Tablecloth of Misandry for fancy occasions.

CassandraSays
10 years ago

I can’t draw, but I feel that the footstool of creepshaming should figure into this in some way.

alternatesteve90
10 years ago

Happy holidays, folks. Hope everyone has a good time….. 🙂

hellkell
hellkell
10 years ago

Now we just need the Living Room of Misandry, I’m sure the Lilleks site can help us find that.

Then we can design the Bathroom of Misandry (bidets are totes misandry), and then work on the Master(bater) Suite of Misandry.

hellkell
hellkell
10 years ago

I hope everyone gets the cha-cha heels they want this Christmas.

SredniVashtar
SredniVashtar
10 years ago

don’t forget the Kitchen of Misandry, where sometimes women cook while having butts

FromAfar
FromAfar
10 years ago

How about a hypergamous penguin whore shaped scented motherfucking candle center piece?

http://www.discountcandleshop.com/images/sans/penguin2.jpg

Lovely!

grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago

They are talking about David in the comments on that post. Dean Esmay says:

“Money is what drives him. Money and self-loathing and the desire to please.

History will not be kind. One senses even his masters no longer want to keep funding him.”

I guess we are David’s masters? I thought we were just David.

And then some other commenter tells this weird story about David and a turkey leg and cranberry sauce and a coma.

CassandraSays
10 years ago

No, the Feminist Conspiracy funds David. It’s an official organization, subsidiary of NOW.

But I’ve said too much.

nilvoidwhy
10 years ago

Academia is like a bad metaphor, you see

thebewilderness
10 years ago

David is made of cats. It is known.

CassandraSays
10 years ago

Poor David, he’s up to his eyeballs in bonbons and candles sent by commenters. The cats are starting to complain.

kittehserf
10 years ago
Alice Sanguinaria
10 years ago

Happy holidays!

Damn it, I need to get on my computer, don’t I?

HeatherN
10 years ago

You know, Elam may have a point with that comment. I know that the physics department at my alma mater is all tied up in feminist theory and “eroding due process for men.” – Turns out Irigaray was wrong…E=MC2 isn’t phallocentric. It’s misandrist!

^sarcasm

cloudiah
10 years ago

What would a penguin-shaped scented candle smell like? Herring and salt water?

Happy holidays to manboobzers and our furrinati (and fishinati) overlords! I’ll be spending them with my mother (and sister) at the hospital, so if anyone wants to fax us a turkey dinner… Just kidding, I think a friend is going to stop by with something for us to eat. (Mom’s doing better, but we really need her to shake this lingering respiratory infection/creeping crud so she can get into the rehab center and start making real progress.)

kittehserf
10 years ago

Happy holidays, everyone! I hope your Furrinati/Fishinati/Featherinati etc overlords don’t work you too hard during the holiday season.

Speaking of which, Louis and I did our Christmas stuff last night. A mob of his family over and presents for all the Furrinati, plus Quadrille showing off his improved skating skills (and not knocking anyone else over on the ice, for a change).

🙂

cloudiah
10 years ago

Speaking of misandry… Some of the comments are pretty funny, so I’m linking directly to the post rather than to the GIF — but watch the GIF, it’s cute.

Ally S
10 years ago

Happy holidays, everyone. :>

I don’t celebrate Christmas or any similar holiday or even do anything special on those days – I feel very sad and lonely on holidays for several reasons. Regardless, I hope everyone’s holiday season is as pleasant as can be.

Ally S
10 years ago

@cloudiah

That’s pretty much the cutest gif I’ve seen all week. It lightened up my mood a bit. Yet another example of how I benefit from female privilege.

angharad
angharad
10 years ago

Hi David,
long time reader, first time commenter here. I just wanted to say Seasons Greetings and thank you for trawling through all the crap.

Also I think this one might be a good candidate for a Misandry Table

CassandraSays
10 years ago

Aw…

opheliamonarch
10 years ago

Merry Winter holiday everyone.

Hope everybody has as good a holiday as possible, definitely time for some Muppets.

http://youtu.be/WlRpGj7LWS4

@Cloudiah, hope your Mum feels better soon and 2014 brings you good cheer. 🙂 (That Gif, so lovely.)

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