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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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baileyrenee
baileyrenee
10 years ago

Happy Holidays manboobz!

I’m in too much of a nice, wintery mood to mock MRA bullshit today, but I’m happy to see that they are so useless and up their own butts that they honestly think that this getting anyone to think anything other than “what a bunch of fucking assholes.”

such human rights, much activism. wow.

hellkell
hellkell
10 years ago
opium4themasses
opium4themasses
10 years ago

The furrinati is behind the war on Christmas!

coffeeyum
coffeeyum
10 years ago

OMG, hellkell. My tree is larger, so it didn’t get knocked over when my baby climbed it (several times), but she managed to knock off damn near every ornament. Thankfully we have carpet so nothing got broken. smh

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
10 years ago

Bad Biscuit!

Cats do that, though. My old cat managed to knock over a real tree by climbing up the inside and then out onto a branch. Pine needles all over the carpet.

Brooked
Brooked
10 years ago

Fox News is right, there is a War on Christmas!

I bet Biscuit and coffeeyum’s baby don’t even properly wish people a Jesus-filled Merry Christmas or inform children how lily white Santa Claus is.

Argenti Aertheri
10 years ago

Kitty no like neon tree! Kitty demand green tree!

Kitty voice aside, I’m only sorta kidding. I had a plec that flipped over plastic plants, literally. He’d flip them, they’d float off, I’d get annoyed. I ended up buying self weighted silk plants, plec just would not leave the plastic ones alone. Maybe Biscuit is equally unfond of unnatural colors.

And I can’t pick a favorite table either.

Argenti Aertheri
10 years ago

So human furnature is using people as end tables instead of people squeezing into them to show off? Cuz I can fit in most cabinets and love freaking people out that way.

mildlymagnificent
10 years ago

I can’t pick a table for myself, either.

(There are times when it’s fine and dandy to let David think he’s just being himself all alone, without all of us, cats, ferrets, whatever inside that David suit. He made this problem for himself. He can solve it by himself.)

hellkell
hellkell
10 years ago

Biscuit left the tree alone for almost two weeks until a couple days ago. Then he got Mr. HK’s Seahawk ornament, then yesterday it was another, now this. Mr. HK almost caught the tree but juuuuuust missed it.

I’ll just put a bunch of lights on it next year–no balls (is that misandry?)–because this is how cats do.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
10 years ago

I sent my Dad a stuffed moose ornament for Xmas, still not sure if that’s misandry or not.

cloudiah
10 years ago

Biscuit!!!

vaiyt
10 years ago

Reading Elam’s stuff is like taking a trip to Bizarro World.

kittehserf
10 years ago

So Biscuit knows the kitty Christmas song I saw ten minutes ago –

Wreck the tree and blame the doggies
Fa la la la la la la la la

Argenti Aertheri
10 years ago

Where does one get a moose ornament? My father is a bit obsessed with moose (of course, I may suffer Mom Anger Consequences for bringing yet another moose related piece of junk into her house [I’m sure the ornament is lovely, but add it to everything from stickers to a moose skull and the pile becomes junk])

moldybrehd
10 years ago

It’s not a moose, but my mother loves putting this up for the holidays.
http://moldybrehd.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/olive2.jpg

serrana
serrana
10 years ago

I sent my Dad a stuffed moose ornament for Xmas, still not sure if that’s misandry or not.

No, it’s moosandry.

Bad Biscuit! My fake Christmas tree is hanging from the ceiling and the cats aren’t interested in climbing it. However, they have tried to eat their share of bubble wrap and scotch tape, and Nilla has developed quite the taste for cornstarch packing peanuts.

So most of Christmas dinner is done. I made a veggie chicken and spinach lasagna with an herbed white sauce and a chocolate bourbon pecan pie, and I also made the salad dressing. I have the stuff ready to go for mulled wine too. Tomorrow I just need to bake the lasagna with some potatoes on the side and make a salad.

volt
volt
10 years ago

Here’s my “art” “work”: http://i.imgur.com/9OWjFKi.png

So if tables are the misandriest form of dining furniture, is that why AVfM offers Humanist *Counter* Theory?

Argenti Aertheri
10 years ago

Mmm spinach lasagne! Ours was regular (meatless) and eaten earlier, as my mother’ sat work currently, won’t be home until nearly 9. Spinach sounds really good though, too bad my brother would never go for it and it’s bad enough that she already has to make two (neither my brother nor I will eat it with meat, she and my father [in theory, if he touches it] like it with little meatballs)

You try amusing the kitties with wrapping paper? My brother and I are banned from that as our mother got sick of finding shreds everywhere. Kitty had funny though!

Argenti Aertheri
10 years ago

Moldybrehd — that is adorable, I could actually probably get my mother not to go all “no more moose stuff!”

Myoo
Myoo
10 years ago

Happy holidays to all manboobzers.

Also, here’s my Table of Misandry, I went the political cartoon route:
http://i.imgur.com/iir85rc.png

kittehserf
10 years ago

volt – counter theory, groan! 😀

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
10 years ago
Shaun DarthBatman Day
10 years ago

Way way way OT, but I saw this and thought of all of you.

http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/HappyChristmasAdameveryoneExceptyouYoureunhappy-29791.jpg

catgirl
catgirl
10 years ago

feliz nochebuena! 🙂