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Men’s Rights Redditors confused, angered by random woman’s obvious joke about spermjacking some dude

Dorothy Parker would like to remind you that women are also capable of making jokes.
Frustrated Dorothy Parker would like to remind you that women are also capable of making jokes.

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Yet more proof that Men’s Rights activists live in an imaginary misandrist dystopia of their own making: this post on Reddit, which has the Men’s Righsters there in a tizzy:

567 Heard this gem yesterday at a college. Stay safe, men! (self.MensRights) submitted 1 day ago by LoudMatt Thought MensRights would find this interesting. I teach a class at a small community college and yesterday I was set up at a student activities fair. At the table next to me, one of the staff (not a student, mind you), a chubby, cute woman in her early to mid 20s was talking to two students in their late teens and said (this is verbatim, btw): "If I don't have a baby by 28, I'm just going to go to some bar and get pregnant from some guy. It's easier and cheaper and I'll get a check too!" A classy role model right there. Stay safe, boys. 145 comments

Yeah, fellas, assuming that this even happened, I’m pretty sure what we’re dealing with is what the rest of us human beings call a “joke.” A dumb joke, but a joke nonetheless. This young lady, I feel confident in saying, does not actually intend to spermjack some innocent lad so she can spend the next 18-plus years of her life raising a child herself while trying to squeeze child support out of someone who hates her.

But don’t tell that to the Men’s Rightsers, who assume the worst about this young woman — and then some.

springy 40 points 1 day ago (45|5) And then when she is a month pregnant, and reality sets in, she will find some sucker that looks like he has good financial prospects, sleep with him and say "You are going to be a father - let's get married". He will do the honorable thing, and then two years later she will kick him out, and she will keep the child, his house, his car, and his savings. He lose everything, including his dignity. He will only get to keep two things: regrets, and child support bills.

Indeed, some of the regulars there are so angry about it they literally want to get the young woman fired or at the very least admonished for making such a terrible, terrible comment in front of young, impressionable students who, I guess, have never heard a joke before.

Another commenter wonders how it is possible for a chubby woman to also be cute. Because fat women are hambeasts AMIRITE FELLAS HIGH FIVE!!!1!

If you scroll down far enough in the comments you will find some Men’s Rights Redditors wondering if maybe, perhaps, possibly, the woman might be making a joke. But these aren’t the comments getting the upvotes. In the Men’s Rights subreddit, anti-woman hysteria trumps rational skepticism pretty much all day, every day.

Q: How many Men’s Rights Activists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: MISANDRY! SPERMJACKING! MALE DISPOSABILITY! THAT’S NOT FUNNY!

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scott1139
scott1139
10 years ago

@auggziliary: Ah, yes–THOSE arguments. >__:(

scott1139
scott1139
10 years ago

@auggziliary: Ah, yes–THOSE arguments. > _ _ 🙁

oraclenine
oraclenine
10 years ago

Argenti- welp, they’re only about 15 years older so if they play that card I will point out we are both geezers, try again.

I did once ask if they seriously thought that no one in the entirety of Obama’s career thought to check his citizenship status before the first presidential election. And if so, how far did they honestly believe the rot went? Because, he was a Senator, wouldn’t it have come up? What do the assorted officials in Hawaii and Illinois get in return for lying? Even the Republicans?

Which is about when they decided to declare an ice cream run.

scott1139
scott1139
10 years ago

@auggziliary: Ah, yes–THOSE arguments. cuz helping poor people of color TOTALLY means you don’t want anyone to help poor white people…

“My grandma used to not be so racist. Till she got a TV. And the only thing she watches is Fox News.” That makes me sad… 🙁

@eli: “it’s such a shame that everyone has to be so PC these days”
Yes, trying to be mindful of the feelings of less-privileged people is SO shameful. They sound like a bunch of jerks.

Also, something doesn’t like my angle-bracket smiley’s… Sorry about the triple post.

kittehserf
kittehserf
10 years ago

Marie, strewth. People should have glue on hand to stop their eyes rolling out reading that list.

Kiwi girl
Kiwi girl
10 years ago

@eli: I bought it. This is the version I am using as it was in the local booze shop: http://www.lemon-z.co.nz/

emilygoddess
emilygoddess
10 years ago

My grandma used to not be so racist. Till she got a TV. And the only thing she watches is Fox News. Now I’m not saying Fox made her racist but… No, I totally am saying that.

Someone is working on a documentary about how the (U.S.) right-wing hate machine, particularly Fox and Rush, turned her dad from a nice man into a rage-filled teabagger. I saw it on Kickstarter last year, and I wish I could remember the name. If you haven’t read Over The Cliff (warning: inappropriate use of “insane”), you might want to. It’s both enlightening and sobering.

MEZ
MEZ
10 years ago

@eli

Not to mention the fact that “literally crazy” has to mean violent and dangerous and so Viscaria was wrong to call herself that

Except that I specifically went out of my way to say that the abuser was “literally crazy” in a violent, out-of-touch-with-reality, scary way as I was explaining the seriousness of the situation and my reluctance to intervene unless serious commitment was being shown. Just pointing this out, as it reconfirms my suspicion that maybe a couple of people here aren’t even reading my posts and are just skimming them for grab-words.

cassandra

And everything that MEZ writes is like that, with things that are actually separate issues being conflated and a few offensive assumptions thrown in and an open refusal to listen to what other people are saying and take their perspective into consideration.

As I said, both of them are very mentally ill AND heavy stimulant drug users(honestly can’t tell which one is their drug of choice, I know they use every drug under the sun except maybe heroin) and it’s really unclear as to what is illness and what is the drugs. Honestly, I try stay out of it as much as possible. I didn’t want to get into the details, (and there’s still much you guys don’t know), but you should always assume when someone’s doing something “honestly, mostly for my own safety” that the details are bad. Just a good example of what I’m about to say next…

I did try to listen to your perspective, and I gave you guys the benefit of the doubt. Everything I said was put through the worst possible spin by some of you; some of which was very well deserved, some of which wasn’t, some of which was flat-out logic flaws, false-dichotomies, and the like. But I’m sorry that I allowed myself to be angered to the point of flat out insulting the lot of you.

Yes, I think ending this conversation would be best. I haven’t been feeling well over the last few days (which is why I thought writing a long piece of advice would be a good distraction) and I just seem to have some sort of weird emotional reactivity here that keeps on hooking me in.

But I do owe a few apologizes first.

@emilygoddess

None of which has anything to do with anything, because the thing you accused her of being dramatic about was sharing her own experience of abuse. THAT is why everyone thinks it was inappropriate.

Honestly until you pointed that out I didn’t realize that it could be read that way and assumed people thought I was obnoxiously referring to her behavior as dramatic. Look, being the dumb-ass that I am, I didn’t specify what she was being dramatic about. I meant she was being dramatic about the boyfriend’s personality, but since I didn’t say that, assuming I was calling her experience of abuse dramatic would be the logical conclusion.

Calling someone dramatic for sharing their experience of abuse, or calling their experience of abuse dramatic, is wrong, disgusting, icky, and I feel like an asshole now. Sorry Kiwi. 🙁

@pecunium

Because when someone has to spend all their time explaining that “you misunderstood me”, the odds are they didn’t say what they thought they did.

Truth. 🙁

Anyway, I’m done here.

I don’t think I can do anything all that tasty with mango. Because I have no sense of how it can be good (which isn’t the case with most things I don’t care for. I can cook with avocado, artichoke, etc.) I have no idea how to balance the flavors.

Maybe salsa? I think I had Newman’s Own mango salsa before that tasted ok.

@Kiwi, If Everclear is legal in your state it makes some pretty good Lemoncello.

I’ve had absinthe before and it’s pretty good. Maybe I’ll pick some up.

vaiyt
vaiyt
10 years ago

“it’s such a shame that everyone has to be so PC these days.”

It’s such a shame that I can’t kick racists in the balls, because that’s what I am actually censoring when I address them.

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