So the Men’s Rights movement has faced some setbacks in the past. The Southern Poverty Law Center profiling them as a movement filled with hate (if not literally a hate group by the SPLC’s strict definition). Events that literally no one showed up to. Paul Elam.
But MRAs have never faced anything quite like this.
Wil Wheaton — yes, that Wil Wheaton, the one who was on Star Trek TNG — has stated publicly that he thinks they’re a bunch of idiots:
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/348291001481310208
Naturally, this tweet has the fellas in the Men’s Rights subreddit feeling hurt and angry. Well, they always feel hurt and angry, so I guess I mean they feel even more hurt and angry than usual, with a lot of this hurt and anger directed in a Wil-Wheatony direction.
Here are some of their comments. I don’t really have any jokes to make about them because, I mean, just read them. I can’t top this sort of ridiculousness.
Click on the individual comments to see them in context on Reddit. Oh, and note that this comment at the top has MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED UPVOTES.
![giegerwasright 119 points 7 hours ago (150|31) Wil Wheaton has never had to live life as a regular man. He has never been treated by women as a regular man. He is a privileged white male. All those things that feminists say that white men have that we recognize are actually really only reserved for rich white men? Well. He's a rich white male. So. What do you expect? Perspective? LOL. He has media to sell and pussy to pander to for approval, hanglowstankin, and profit. permalink source save give gold hide child comments [–]cfornax 63 points 7 hours ago (82|17) Ironic isn't it. He undermines men to elevate his privileged status in eyes of feminists who wish to undermine his privileged status. permalink source save parent give gold [–]giegerwasright 39 points 7 hours ago (53|17) And that, my dear lad, is how the wealthy mangina maintains his status. Key word being "wealthy", a distinction that the unfortunately unwealthy manginas don't recognize. Always. Follow. The money.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/geiger2.png?resize=580%2C365&ssl=1)
Wait. What is “hanglowstankin?” Oh, never mind.
Also, I would bet a mint-in-box Wesley Crusher action figure that Wheaton didn’t call you guys “idiots” because he wanted to pander to “pussy” but rather because you are the sorts of guys who routinely refer to women as “pussy.”
![ruboos [-2] 10 points 7 hours ago (16|6) Wil Wheaton has always been a self hating misandrist. I've never liked him. And his narration is atrocious. Listen to "Ready Player One" if you don't believe me. The dude is a joke. Thank you for calling him out in public. He has no excuse.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/narration.png?resize=580%2C101&ssl=1)
![AnotherDAM 14 points 7 hours ago (24|10) Just because someone is famous in one context does not make him an expert in any, or every, other context. The man made a decent beer with Stone Brewing, he is incredibly practiced at talking with people so don't expect to win a war of words with him or out "cool" him. Just point out to him that he has had everything handed to him on a silver platter his entire adult life ~ he doesn't need to worry about money or getting girls or an invite to the uber-cool CES ~ does not actually mean his opinion matters to anyone but himself. He will eventually get it when all of his male friends start dying decades before his female admirers. permalink source save give gold hide child comments [–]VortexCortex [+1] 4 points 3 hours ago (5|1) I would merely appeal to his sense of logic: "There's much evidence to the contrary, Wheaton; You have not tried try to refute the null hypothesis before holding your belief." Not that it would actually work -- He's an actor who once played a young scientist -- but many of his viewers practice rationality.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/dyingrational.png?resize=580%2C327&ssl=1)
But Wil had one defender amongst the Men’s Rightsers:
![chocoboat 6 points 5 hours ago (25|19) Wil is still cool. He just got misinformed by some feminists, who in an effort to protect their privilege, smear the name of MRAs and fight against equality when it doesn't serve them. He was taught that MRA = a whiny bitch who wants a return to 1950s gender roles and can't stand women having any power over anything. Of course he thinks that kind of person is an idiot. Don't bash Wil, bash the people who misinformed him. I can virtually guarantee you that he would support the same pro-equality ideas that MRAs do, and that he's against the sexist situations that men sometimes run into (such as being arrested after calling police when your wife attacks you, or being made to change airline seats due to "every man is a pedophile" hysteria). permalink source save give gold hide child comments [–]Zetadood 17 points 4 hours ago (23|4) Nah, no one gets a pass for misinformed ignorance. If he changes his views later on that's different, until then he's a tool.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wilcool.png?resize=580%2C326&ssl=1)
EDIT: H/T to the AgainstMensRighters for pointing me to this.
OMg, having to change airline seats! Does misandry know no bounds?
Who the hell was Gieger, and why was he right?
Also, I see nothing but Koreans in the photo.
And now for our entertainment AVFM will lose a slap fight against…. Wesley Crusher…
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Totally legitimate argument for the legitimacy of a social justice movement!!
Because feminism has taught women to steal men’s lifeforces
Speak truth to power AnotherDAM!!!!!
In the past few years I’ve become a fan of Wil Weaton. I follow him on social media and highly recommend the Nerdist Podcasts and the Celebrity Bowling that feature him. This just makes me like him even more.
Bina, Wil is in the row second from the bottom and is the fifth person from the right. Or, I should say, that is where he photoshopped himself.
Oops, just spotted Waldo…I mean Wil. All that mangry stoopid totally borked my eyes.
Pedophilia. It’s a Men’s Right™.
auggz, I use the reddit enhancement suite, which allows you to tag users to remember who they are. That’s a quote from him, and helps to remind me that he actually believes that.
It’s kind of amazing how many of the serious men’s human rights discussions of the serious men’s human rights movement revolve around the serious men’s human rights issue of why won’t the hot babes have sex with me waaaaa
God, who ever started a social revolution with the slogan “only losers like us understand our pain”?
Hyena girl,
Wesley’s all grown up now and he possesses humility and a fierce wit. If he decides to notice them, the MRAs are in for a trouncing.
It’s funny that they think he’s dating at all. He’s been married for a very long time and has a grown son. He’s very open about how celebrity was intimidating for him and how he had no idea how to deal with female fans approaching him when he was younger. He may have been on the cover of Tiger Beat, but he was still an awkward young nerdling who knew more about D&D than dating. What’s so cool about Weaton is that he turned his passions into an interesting and successful career and became the sort of person other interesting and talented people want to be around. His humor and humility make him so charming. I’d love to get to meet him one day.
…and I used to make “Henson Crusher to the airlock” jokes. Oh, how people change.
Some of those North Korean medals look like googly-eyes. I giggled.
Also, the MRAs are just sad because their vision of the precocious kid, that they imagine themselves to be, came out against them. You’re always smart enough to fool yourself.
I’m pretty sleeves out by all that discussion about how easy it is for Wil Wheaton, a married person, to “get pussy” (eww).
I just hope more events like this happen, because there’s a chance MRAs and PUAs will fall on opposite sides and start an Alpha vs. Mangina Celebrity Endorsement War.
First they came after Party Guys, we retreated and now they have come after Wil Wheaton!
Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done!
Sleeves out. That’s right. I was so creeped out that I… tore my own sleeves off? Thanks autocorrect!
MRA chucklefuckery aside, I’m not too enchanted with Wil Wheaton.
http://zjemp.tv/post/51335012170/wilwheaton-drawagainsthumanity-and-the
I wish I didn’t know what “hanglowstankin” was.
Only famous Gieger I can find is a she; Tarah Gieger, a professional motocross driver from Puerto Rico:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarah_Gieger
I suspect, however, he’s mispelling Geiger. Hans Geiger was a German physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter. Geiger was a member of the “Uranium Club,” a group of scientists working to develop nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany:
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201206/physicshistory.cfm
“It’s kind of amazing how many of the serious men’s human rights discussions of the serious men’s human rights movement revolve around the serious men’s human rights issue of why won’t the hot babes have sex with me waaaaa”
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6504/waaqc.png
Are they admitting white male privilege is real? Nope, Apex Fallacy! Checkmate SJW feminazis oppressors.
Well I’m sure MRAs have a worked out their systematic approach to privilege.
Or not.
I love love love the photo of GWW lecturing empty chairs. Thanks Canada.
More people using our existence as a punchline. Fucking lovely.
The people commenting in the reddit thread are so delusion (surprise!). They think he’s either a) misinformed because waahhh the media paints them poorly but it’s totes not true guys! b) pandering to the feminist agenda for fame because apparently he also didn’t like things about the Trayvon Martin case (which I guess means he thinks that because it was unpopular to blame the victim and not because they are his actual opinions) or c) never had to “need” the MRM (because we know they do SO MUCH for men and boys) because he’s a privileged white male (I love when they take things from feminism when it suits their narratives but also completely miss the actual meaning/point)
SHIT! I didn’t know about the transphobic stuff and I often read Zinna’s blog. Not cool. I hope he walks that back in a hurry. The new respect is fading fast.
@ Tulgey I don’t know much about Wil Wheaton, but that is definitely shitty and he should be called out for that.
As a loser and general low-life, I hate the “Only a loser will get this!” argument. MRAs, you don’t speak for me. And the more you speak, the more likely it is that people will assume I’m one of you when I talk about previous abusive relationships and being victim of sexual assaults.
Thanks to people like MRAs, I can’t even talk to a shrink about my problems without them assuming I’m one of them. You have barred me, a man, from getting help (although I’m sure you will blubber “misandry” and “mangina” from between your bulbous distended fat cheeks, and I’m not sure which set sometimes)