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.
That was exactly my thought .How in the world or what in the world about a woman’s vaginal fluids would stick to a guys dick after 7 days if he was actually taking a shower daily ?
Even a woman who has sperm DEPOSITED in her it is washed out naturally in a couple of days . Every bit of it .Of course you clean the outside . What would make a guys dick “stink” 7 days after having sex with a woman ? UHHH>>>Maybe he needs to go to the doctor. Sounds like it could be a serious issue.
I can see why you’re allergic to social justice language, it has an inconvenient habit of telling you things about yourself that you don’t want to hear.
Minor benefits?
What, like the minor benefit of not being shot or beaten to death by police for having the wrong skin colour?
The minor privilege of not having to be on guard against rape all your life? Or of being paid more for the same work? Example: Australlian male graduates are paid an average of $50000 more for the same job, straight out of uni, tham female graduates with the same qualifications, even though it is illegal to do so. You want to claim that’s not male privilege?
You sure as hell don’t know how privilege works, sonny.
I wonder if these Great Unwashed dudes – who probably whine about how terrible women’s genitals smell – are confused by the stench rising from their own oh-so-wonderful gangrenous appendages?
Amazing . Absolutely amazing .She adopted the males in their pod (its a pod right) .I wondered how they would keep the family going if all babies stay with mom all their lives. Not new blood ? So do they inter mate ? As in family ?Sisters and brothers and cousins and all ?
In all seriousness, if your dangly bits smell bad, talk to a doctor. The only way that could possibly have anything to do with a woman would be if she gave you an STD that causes an unfortunate odor, in which case the “see a doctor” advice still applies.
marinerachel, I can’t believe what a misorcaist you are.
Wil wheaton’s transphobic joke isn’t cool; maybe he’ll see some of the responses to it and realize he’s being a dick.
All I know is I hope he didn’t give her and infection like PID or Toxic Shock because apparently his dick is overdue for a dip in some bleach it sounds like .Or he needs some intravenous antibiotics for a week or so or both.
Minor benefits. Such as white people being among the least likely to be imprisoned for possession of marijuana, women being far more vulnerable to abuse and sexual violence, and queer folks being denied promotions, jobs, and custody solely because of their orientation. All right then.
They go on sexy outings with individuals from within their population but as distantly related as possible. Populations consist of pods. Pods consist of matirlines. Individuals breed with individuals belonging to their population but outside their pod. The population continues to grow. Inbreeding is minimal (unless the population is endangered in which case they breed with whoever’s available, which may just be someone from within their pod. That’s no good. Doesn’t happen in thriving populations though, only in struggling populations and captivity.) After mating, they return to their matriline, give birth and rear the offspring in the matriline.
But Ally, none of those things matter compared to the huge human rights abuse that is white-cis-het-guys not getting to shove their dicks into who they want, when they want!
I post at r/mensrights. I don’t believe in so-called “male privilege” at all. But yes, even though I post at r/mr, I recognize that the benefits associated with being female are ultimately minor when stacked up against money.
I love this image. Candlelit dinner and a movie, orca style.
Well, you’re a flaming idiot, aren’t you, buttbrainboy?
It’s funny that you put “even though” in that sentence, as if the statement you’re making would be somehow unexpected or there was some sort of contradiction involved.
And yes I do think it’s crass to attempt to put relatively minor issues (at best) like sexism/racism/homophobia on the same level as poverty/economic inequality.
“Relatively minor.” Sure. The prejudice and violence and stupid shit that homosexual people, people of color and women face is relatively minor.
No such thing as “privilege,” people. You heard it here first.
Like I said I’ve never denied that there can be certain benefits/drawbacks associated with being of a certain race/gender/orientation/etc. Again, I post on r/mensrights, a “gender” sub.
But yes, I think it should ALSO be remembered that even those those are legit issues, it’s all often secondary to class. (For example, most “race issues” in the US are actually just racialized class issues.)
Sexism, racism and homophobia are behind a hell of a lot of murders, rapes, beatings, arrests, unfair dismissals, refusal of employment … and you call that minor?
No wonder you don’t like or understand the term privilege. You’re fucking steeped in it, you moron.
So pods within a population .Like a big circle(the population) with circles inside the the big circle (pods) ? So one male and one female go outside their respective pods (on a date) within the population and then they each return home to their own pods ? So they kind of have one night stands go home and the mama keeps the baby and lives with her baby and the matirline of her pod (her mother or aunt or whoever woman ????The daddy goes back home to his pod matirline ? Is that close ?
But wealth is usually the result of privilege (or if it was inherited, their ancestor’s privilege). Sure, hard work and talent are involved too, but without a certain amount of opportunity, wealthy people wouldn’t have had the chance to use their talents and work hard to make money. You can’t separate the two.
Eh, this chew toy is boring. Smug, selfish leftist dudes are nothing new. Where’s Michael when we need some entertainment?
I get it .The population is like a city . And within the city their are households.(pods) The mother(or a female ) is in charge of the households she is not even married because her lover went back to stay at his moms household.(pod) So the kids go out get pregnant or impregnate whichever then they each go back home to mom .(their house/pod)
@sparky
If only. That would atleast allow homie to claim originality with his stupidity. Then again, what can we expect from a username like “buttboy69”
yayyyy I can continue to like him! He had an intimidatingly good session of Fiasco on his table top gaming web show…