So Reddit’s Men’s Rightsers are in a tizzy over a bullshitty piece in the Daily Telegraph warning of an evil worldwide plot to force men to pee sitting down.
The evidence for the existence of such a plot is a bit on the skimpy side — the Telegraph writer leads off with a reference to a 2012 proposal from a County Council member in Sormland, Sweden that doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere legislatively but that’s been a favorite evil-feminist story on conservative websites ever since.
The very notion that some evil feminist might force them to sit while they spray has Men’s Rights Redditors in an unusually combative mood. Heck, it’s got some of the regulars thinking that it might well be time to start doing some good-old fashioned murdering. No, really.
Yep. In case you’ve been wondering, suggesting “a campaign to assassinate feminist figures” because some local council member in Sweden had a dumb idea will in fact win you upvotes on the Men’s Rights subreddit.
Strikerfm1, by contrast, seems almost moderate with his “tie feminists down and urinate on them” proposal.
The World’s Greatest 21st Century Human Rights Movement, folks!
Thanks to the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to this horrible crap.
EDIT: The “let’s murder feminists” comment has been taken down by the subreddit mods, though the user hasn’t been banned for it; the “I want to tie a feminist down and pee on her” comment remains up, and still boasts upvotes.
I don’t think that a guy who refers to his junk as a dink (short for dinky-winky, a childhood term for the penis) has any right to complain about sitting down while urinating.
*pee
It’s so weird the things they get worked up over. I would not have predicted the “pee sitting down” issue to be the one to provoke this level of anger.
It should probably be mentioned that the motion in question was pretty much a joke to begin with. It started when there was constant urine puddles in the bathrooms in county hall (all of which were unisex, as is common in Swedish public buildings) and repeated attempts to get the guilty to either aim straight or clean up after themselves failed.
But hey, why assume feminists have a sense of humor when you could assume they are all petty despots?
Like much of the MRA bullshit, this is just a tempest in a piss pot.
Cloudiah,
That’s just it. I don’t believe that the silly pee issue had anything to do with provoking a violent and misogynist response from these guys. I think violent fantasies about women is their default setting and any excuse to suggest women actually be harmed or humiliated will do.
Also, it was a male City Council member who proposed this and Strikerfm1 is taking all his rage about it out on women.
Not that I like it any better if he wanted to piss all over Viggo Hansen, but just pointing about the especially extra misogyny.
That’s just it, Cloudiah. I don’t think they’re provoked at all. I think violent misogynist fantasies are their default setting. This is a flimsy, silly, excuse, but that’s all they need.
@jennydevildoll
Nice lol
There’s also that woman who’s been knitting out of her crotch which people have been in a tizzy about.
Oh leatapp, I know, but that this is the issue that causes them to bring those fantasies into the open…
Whenever I see/hear men going all “You can never take away my MANHOOD!” about peeing standing up (of all things), I can’t help but think of this scene in the movie, Ma vie en rose –
Ludovic: Are you looking?
Ludovic’s friend: Yeah.
Ludovic: What do you see?
Ludovic’s friend: Your feet.
Ludovic: How do they look?
Ludovic’s friend: Normal.
Ludovic: Okay, now listen.
Ludovic’s friend: You’re peeing.
Ludovic: See my feet? Like a girl’s. That proves it.
Ludovic’s friend: I can do that.
It’s that last line of Ludovic’s friend that I’m most reminded of w/nonsense like this Reddit post.
Goddamn, I wish I’d thought of this joke.
Well, this one is telling them what to do with their dicks, which is a level of misandry bordering on blasphemy (telling women/vaginati what to do with their reproductive bits is, of course, essential to gender equality)
If we’re talking pee/penis jokes, these morons must be descended from Adam and Eve in this joke:
God tells them, “I’ve got two things left over from making you two; who wants what? This one lets you pee standing up, and make silly shapes with it, and it gets hard and then feels nice.”
“Me, me, I want that one!” Adam yells, and God gives him the penis.
“What’s the other one?” Eve asks, a little disappointed.
“It’s this thing,” God says. “I call it a ‘brain'”.
MRAs, bravely pissing against the wind of societal change.
So, um, these guys do sit to shit, don’t they? Using the same toilet? So, their dick is somehow vastly longer when they piss? So confused.
I have wondered for a long time why guys seem so very fond of peeing while standing. I’ll admit it looks like it could be convenient sometimes (like in a foul restroom, with overflow on the floor) but why is it so macho? I first noticed this in the movie “The Full Monty”, where it is played for laughs, but seriously, why the association? Is it because it’s an early, indeed, pre-puberty, marker of masculinity? If so, this suggests that some of the weirder forms of misogyny are childish.
“dink”? Oh my!
I’m surprised the Telegraph writer didn’t manage to work some Islamophobia into that piece, given that a lot of Muslims believe men shouldn’t piss while standing. Though that would then confuse the Muslims = misogynist homophobes narrative, so I guess he couldn’t have it all ways.
Also, the comments under the Telegraph article make r/mensrights look like amateurs:
“Sitting down to piss in Japan is a sure sign you are a “soshokukei dansei”, or “herbivorous male”, or as it used to be known in English, a woolly woofter. This is one reason why the population of Japan is falling dramatically: the modern metrosexual male is obsessed with his looks and is incapable of forming anything but platonic relationships with girls, and is thus dooming the entire human race to extinction.
It is the duty of every red-blooded male on the planet to resist this drive towards feminisation – stand up for manliness…stand up to pee!”
Also also, calling it now: The Amazing Atheist will make a video talking about this.
Standing up, men can’t hit the bowl consistently, mostly leaving pee on the bowl lip, down the outside of the bowl, sometimes missing the bowl entirely. If a urine test were performed on most men’s footwear, urine would be present splattered all over them. And pants or jeans that have not been washed would show the same residue. Contrary to the boner pee guy, many men, in fact I would argue most, cannot pee while erect. And I agree, how does he shit when he has a boner and not dip his so-called ding into the sewage. Watch out for this slug, ladies.
There’s more than boner pee guy. I counted at least three mensrighters who haven’t yet learned to wait for the erection to go down before taking a piss.
Listen, I clean my own bathroom, and I’ll tell you right now; aim can be improved. Tell the men if they don’t want to sit down they can clean their own bathroom, and you can pretty much be sure their aim will improve.
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Or they’ll start peeing sitting down.
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In other news, I have adopted another cat. He is currently hiding in a dark corner, because he has been in a kennel for so long and is now a little bit agoraphobic. He is also a cuddler and a sweetheart, but my other cat so far is unconvinced.
Ignoring the homophobia in Strikerfm1’s remarks for now, how does this even almost make sense? If all feminists are lesbians, why do we “desire” men at all, gay or not? (First assuming it was possible for us to make men gay to begin with). If we’re all heterosexual women, why would we want all men gay? That seems self-defeating.
As for everything else, holy cow. “How can you say we hate women” coexisting with “evil women want to emasculate us” therefore we “should tie them down and pee on them or just kill them” is just amazing
I once had 3 roommates (all 3 were guys), there were 2 bathrooms in the apartment, but three of us only used one – the other bathroom was used by J, and quite frankly, none of the rest of us were willing to go in. It was appalling.
So yeah, regardless of being guys or gals, the ones who make a mess in public are usually just as gross at home.
This just made my day, coming out of lurker mode.
Me man, me stand! Kneel before my manliness.
Kittehserf, I heard a similar joke. God approaches Adam and Lilith:
God: Okay, I’ve got two things left. One is the ability to pee standing up –
Adam: That sounds great! I’ll take that.
God: Okay, here you go.
(Adam goes off to mark his territory, write his name in the snow, etc.)
Lilith: So what was the other thing?
God: Oh? Sorry. Here’s your multiple orgasms.