So someone went to the Men’s Rights subreddit the other day to ask the assembled Men’s Rights Activists a simple question: what sort of activism do you folks do? Specifically, the visitor asked, “Do MRAs have marches or campaigns or fundraisers?”
The post didn’t get much attention, but the answers that “Chickenjuggle” got were pretty, well, instructive.
Some Men’s Rights Redditors pointed to the astounding successes of the events organized by A Voice for Men, which have drawn literally dozens of people from around the globe — that is, more people than you are likely to see waiting for a bus (except during rush hour).
Others tried to claim credit for, among other things, Movember, a month-long prostate cancer awareness campaign that most MRAs have no more connection with than I do, and for the work of various Fathers Rights organizations that MRAs, by and large, have nothing to do with.
A few pointed to fundraisers that A Voice for Men has held … for itself. (Yes, if “fundraising” is redefined to mean “sending a lot of money to Paul Elam, without knowing what exactly he even does with it,” then, yes, MRAs are pretty active fundraisers.)
And the rest mostly offered excuses.
LAMFF explained that most men have a hard time fitting activism into their busy schedule of HUNTING THE MAMMOTH TO FEED YOU:
Others darkly intimated that it was much too dangerous for them to actually get up off of their asses and march, as they might risk their balls, or at least their jobs, and possibly even their spot on the couch. (I added that last bit; it seems like it would be important to them.)
As is well-known, no other activists in the history of the world have ever put themselves willingly at risk for their ideals.
Unkleman sniffed that those silly marches were probably sour, anyway:
That bit at the end about “false facts” is an interesting slip, huh?
TRPACC, meanwhile, insisted that sitting on your ass posting comments on the internet was, in fact, activism of the highest order:
In other words, this video from SomeGreyBloke turns out not to be a parody after all, but a dead-on accurate portrayal:
Sorry, wordspinner, but I’m on my way to steal your dad’s kitties right now.
I’m getting a plaintive message from a fellow buried under cats – “Please confiscate them!”
@ katz,
NOOOOO!
Can you at least turn them over to Mom?
Well, naturally, we always grant custody to the woman.
Suffragette gets run over and kiilled by the king’s horse for daring to demand the vote = Doing Nothing.
Suffragette gets jailed and force-fed for hunger-striking to get the vote = Doing Nothing.
Women get arrested en masse, everywhere, for protesting against nukes, polluters and the general sexism of society = Doing Nothing.
MRAs whining and kvetching on the Internet about evil imaginary feminists cutting their balls off and killing their dogs, while simultaneously whining and kvetching about women preferring cats over dudes like them, so now they’re gonna Go Their Own Way to spite us = Serious Political Activism That’s The Only Thing Holding This Friggin’ Society Together.
Gee, this MRA Logic™ just keeps getting more logical all the time.
…and hands on penis, wanking their nuts off. Because how else can they show those castrating bitches?
Guys. You guys. An MRA took my hedgehog.
I don’t have any evidence for this but I’m SURE it’s what happened.
Probably because the ladies** don’t want this particular version of society to keep running.
**I hate the term ladies. Seriously, it’s overly gendered and yet poorly defined. Plus, after a while my eyes start to see it as ‘ladles’, and it’s all downhill from there.
It was probably an MGTOW – they believe pricks should stick together. You should file a report with the Feminist Pet-Confiscating Stormtroopers of Pluto.
That one dude’s comment when someone asked, “do MRAs have marches?” He answered, “…No, because (we) have an aversion to being shot in the balls.”
Huh? There have been no MRA parades, or a serious epidemic of MRA dude’s being shot in the balls. Where’s his fear comming from? Too much Sigmund Freud? That dude could make ANYTHING about castration anxiety.
All you single ladles, all you single ladles, put your handles up…
I was feeling kind of bad that Canada seems to be a hotbed of MRAs showing up in Actual Real Life and doing (stupid) things, like the poster campaigns in Edmonton and Saskatoon, and the rally in Toronto. And then I noticed that those groups have some very prominent women in them. GWW in Edmonton, Typhoid Blue in S’toon. Not sure about Toronto, don’t care enough to go looking (kind of assuming that GWW organized it from Edm).
So now I’m assuming that, as with almost every organization run by men (I’m thinking churches), the actual work is being done by women.
Is there anything we feminists won’t steal from men? Pets, ice cream, precious precious sperm…
I don’t mind the term “ladies”, but when an MRAsshat writes it, I can just hear the Cheeto-stinking sneer in it.
Viscaria – Um…. women won’t steal …. um…. um….
*two decades later*
… uh, I’m still working on it! Uh…
Advocacy though comments? So trolls then. Makes sense.
Real activism is not some thing from the past either.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/11/1215305/-N-C-Moral-Monday-6-84-arrested-Charlotte-Observer-reporter-detained
Alice – we won’t steal MRAs! Because who’d want them?
Ladles of the world unite! Anti-being-dunked-in-hot-soup activism now!
(Hey, it’s as pithy and makes as much sense as anything any MRA ever wrote.)
@kittehserf Sauce for the goose is good for the gander?
kittehs – HAH! Good point! 😀
opium4themasses – sauce is MISLADLRY!
First they came for my wife, and I didn’t speak out, because she was already over 30.
Then they came for my dog, and I didn’t speak out, because she was a real bitch.
Then they came for my cat, and I didn’t speak out, because she was way too independent for my tastes.
Then they came for my goldfish, and I thought the joke was on them, because the fish wasn’t really made of gold.
Then they came for my Tamagotchi, and I just thought that Asian virtual pets were overrated for their submissive nature anyway.
They still haven’t come for my cactus.
Lol! If that goldfish was being kept in a typical goldfish bowl, I want to come for it and rescue it to a suitably large and well filtered tank (those fuckers get BIG and are shit machines [like, make a fist, now have it constantly pooping…that’s pretty much an adult goldfish])
Popping in to say Happy Holidays to Manbooberz everywhere. Hope you’re staying warm and well fed on Mamoth steaks.
Arctic Ape – They did eventually come for my cactus. But I didn’t speak out, for I hoped that the spines will lodge in their butts.
They then came back for the sand, but I didn’t need it anymore because they took my cactus.
They still haven’t taken my pet rock.