Categories
a voice for men ableism advocacy of violence are these guys 12 years old? boner rage creepy douchebaggery evil women FemRAs gender policing homophobia judgybitch ladies against women men who should not ever be with women ever MGTOW misogyny MRA not-quite-explicit threats oppressed men pedophiles oh sorry ephebophiles racism threats transphobia trigger warning

Some of the comments I don’t let through

How comments are moderated at Man Boobz.
How comments are moderated at Man Boobz.

So I had to re-ban a couple of long-banned trolls today, who had returned with new names and slightly different IP addresses but who gave themselves away with their behavior. And that got me thinking about the people — well, the MRAs and PUAs and other such charming folks — who regularly denounce me as an evil censor of FREE SPEECH.

In fact, when I ban people, I do so for good reasons: one of the two trolls I banned today was a longtime MRAish commenter here who eventually creeped everyone out by boasting about having sex with underage prostitutes; the other was a man of many sockpuppets known for angry, abusive meltdowns full of slurs.

Anyway, so I thought I’d give you all a glimpse into my “trash” folder. Here’s a sampling of comments from would-be first time commenters at Man Boobz that I felt would not add anything to the discourse here. But in the interests of FREE SPEECH I thought I’d give these “ideas” an airing today.

TRIGGER WARNING for violent and offensive language. (Sorry about the quality of the last two; you can click on them to see larger versions.)

You people are such wankers. MGTOW is the best thing that ever happened. Personally, i despise women and would gladly see them all die horribly. This site is not only run bu a pathetic, wretched little scum, but populated by ones as well.Sad to say. But I see many good men get hurt by women. I feel not one drop of sympathy for any women who gets hurt, Beatin up or treated like shit. Cheers you dumb bitch.censored1censored2

Not all of the comments I trash are quite this awful. Some are only mildly violent or abusive. I tend to be a bit picky with people’s first comments, assuming that if someone posts a shitty first comment it’s not likely to get any better after that. There are a few banned commenters who stop by and try to post anyway, including one fellow who leaves endless comments trying to prove, as far as I can tell, that teenage girls are objectively hotter than women in their twenties and older.

And, of course, there are comments targeting individual women, whether these are giant cut-and-pasted rants about Anita Sarkeesian, vaguely threatening remarks aimed at other well-known internet feminists, or bizarre sexual comments about female MRAs from fans of theirs.

Once in a while I will get a comment from a feminist that resorts to violent language; I don’t let those comments through either.

And then there are the pictures people try to post in the comments. Below, one of the ones I actually let through, depicting me in a dress with some extremely tall dude. A quick Google image search reveals that it was originally posted online by regular A Voice for Men contributor Janet Bloomfield, in a blog post of hers from last year on Disney princesses. Stay classy, Men’s “Human Rights” Movement!

I don't actually own a dress like this.
I don’t actually own a dress like this.

Anyway, the pictures I don’t let through are worse.

324 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
tcwill00
tcwill00
10 years ago

@kittehs: FFXIV is Final Fantasy XIV, a video game.

“Final” is misleading because the company that developed the first game was going under, “Final Fantasy” was a black joke at the time. Guess how the company got hauled into financial success.

14 is misleading because there have been way more than 14 games with Final Fantasy slapped on them.

sparky
sparky
10 years ago

Ah, atomicwheelchair left a few more turds in an otherwise pleasant thread:

RV is a mathematical concept of essentially the number of future offspring that can be expected from a female of a given age.

Uh-huh. And what’s the formula for figuring out a woman’s RV?

It’s an observational fact that the males in our species have a big interest in female youth and virginity.

“It’s an observable fact” is a fancy way of saying “I’m talking out my ass.”

The most popular age bracket in the porn industry is the teens, in primitive tribes adolescent girls are the most sought after brides, in fairy tales and mythologies all over the world young virgin girls are held in extremely high regard etc, etc, etc.

Bonus points for tying porno, “primitive” societies, and fairy tales all together. But seriously, citation, citation, citation. Plus, ew, creepy “barely legal” porno is your “proof?” And “primitive” societies? You mean present hunter-gatherer societies, which have the undergone the same thousands or so years of development along with the rest of us, so really aren’t some magical window into the past? Those societies?

Now, it seems to me a more likely explanation for society “valuing” female virginity is, back in the day before paternity tests, it was impossible to tell who had fathered which child, and if you run your society in a patrilineal way, it’s very important to know who the father is. And the only way to know that is to put societal strictures on women’s sexuality to ensure that most women will be virgins when married, so (theoretically, anyway) we know who the father of her children is. Of course, one of the many ways to control women is to police their sexuality. And said society also has to view women and children as property rather than people. But I digress.

Now this is something that requires a biological explanation.

No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t at all, when sociological explanations are so much simpler and direct and don’t require “just-so” stories.

Why do so many men like them young?

Because they’re creeps?

The most likely explanation is our mating system that involves long term bonds between males and females. It looks like the males in our species have evolved to choose females mainly for long term relationships and to try and get as many offspring from them over the long term. Under this strategy the best females to go for are those that are young and haven’t started reproducing yet so all of their breeding years with which they can give a man offspring still lie in her future. Any fertile years that lie in her past can no longer be accessed by her husband.

Again, this is nothing but a “just-so” story. Besides, I thought men evolved to “spread their seed” and therefore have to have sex with as many women as possible.

I always like how these evo-psych explanations always assume that human evolution just stopped somewhere back in the Stone Age, and we haven’t been evolving since.

tl;dr: Citation needed!

kittehserf
10 years ago

Kittenserf,
Seconding catgirl.

🙂

wewereemergencies
wewereemergencies
10 years ago

Oh no! I swear there was an “e” on the end of “her”. I feel like such a failure now.

@Sam

I dunno, I mean I’ve been welcomed by like 3 people here (and thank you for the welcome *beams*) and all I’ve done was a) not insult people and b) comment about animals.

Maybe try that? I mean, I thought that was Basic Human Interaction, but I might be missing something.

Marie
Marie
10 years ago

@LBT

I used to aspire to join the SFWA, but I have found myself less and less impressed with them as I’ve learned of their bullshittery.

Possibly silly question, but what’s SFWA?

kittehserf
10 years ago

Marie – Science Fiction Writers of America, I think.

Marie
Marie
10 years ago

@kittehs

Kk. Thanks for answering :3

kittehserf
10 years ago

No worries! 🙂

Nitram
Nitram
10 years ago

Has anyone remarked yet about David being portrayed as “Beauty”. Is this supposed to be an insult?

Also David, 7th ing, or 8th ing my gratitude for this blog. Sometimes I have to take a break from it because I find myself wondering which men among us are MRAs or just generally feeling down about all the hate. You wade through this every day and you are the front line to the most heinous comments. I hope it doesn’t personally take a toll on you. Also you are hilarious and a genius at mockery and you always have the PERFECT image with the PERFECT caption for every blog posts. In short; you rock.

fromafar2013
10 years ago

@ sparky

“Ah, atomicwheelchair left a few more turds in an otherwise pleasant thread:”

What!? Where!? <__>

Seriously, I don’t know a single evolutionary biologist who would give this turd factory the time of day.

Yeah, yeah, we’re all ‘hard wired’ animals, donchyaknow? (Never mind that the ‘hard wired’ theory has since been debunked, but whatevs).

Totally SCIENCE based theory of truthiness, full of truth:

We’re all programmed by biology to find the bulbous heads and large eyes of kittens and puppies irresistibly cute and it allows our Furinatti Overlords to rule over us even when they are at their most vulnerable (infancy) and will help ensure continued servitude into the future even as they age. A human’s cuteness susceptibility factor is directly related to the amount of time they spend being groomed by the Furinatti when they are young, ie: children growing up in a household with one or more Furinatti Overlords will be more likely to be owned by Furnatti Overlords in adulthood.

SCIENCE!!

kittehserf
10 years ago

::bows down before Furrinati Overlords::

fromafar2013
10 years ago

… have I been spelling Furrinati wrong this whole time?

Oh, noes. Don’t tell them. I’m already slated for Cat Anger Consequences later because I ran out of the customary (read: mandatory) nightly wet foods. =^.^=

sparky
sparky
10 years ago
fromafar2013
10 years ago

@ sparky

Thanks. How in gods’ name did I miss that? Comment approval delay?

Whatevs, unoriginal troll is unoriginal.

kittehserf
10 years ago

Furinatti is when they’re smartly dressed but angry anyway.

http://d2tq98mqfjyz2l.cloudfront.net/image_cache/1363549050824528.jpg

Sam-I-Was?
Sam-I-Was?
10 years ago

Sam, as someone who shares the name, please for the love of ceiling cat, if you are serious about joining the community stop typing and start reading. But since I’m pretty sure you just want to whine about how the evil manboobzers are shutting you out, go pound salt. Here’s a hint, if you say something offensive the adult action is to figure out why what you said is offensive and the troll answer is to stick your fingers in your ears and declare everyone else as a meenie of the hive mind.

Just an FYI

House Mouse Queen
10 years ago

Hi ppl! I empathize with you David re: the crazy comments and mail you get. One of my vids on YT about those MGTOW dudes brought Paul Elam to the yard.

I love how Paul is using the collapse of the forum to promote his place. I love when the commenters were going on and on about how AVFM doesn’t like nor promote misogyny.

Even though, like you, I wade through this crap every day, I’m still always surprised at how much lower the bar goes with these dudes.

Sam-I-Was?
Sam-I-Was?
10 years ago

Kitteh,

I so love that link & the new picture of Mr. K…I’m just saying if you ever release a calendar where he is featured I’ll definitely order one 🙂

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

Hey, Atomic Creeper! One does not “acquire” sexual partners, unless one is a rapist.

kittehserf
10 years ago

Kitteh,

I so love that link & the new picture of Mr. K…I’m just saying if you ever release a calendar where he is featured I’ll definitely order one 🙂

BWAHAHAHHAA I could make a small fortune doing that, given how many friends I’ve had who’ve lusted after him/think he’s serious eye candy.

Could be a bit of trouble with copyright and stock pics, though!

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

“Acquiring” someone for the purposes of making them bear your children would be human trafficking. Just so we’re clear.

BTW, did I mention that you’re a creeper?

kittehserf
10 years ago

OT

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee my new glasses will be ready in an hour!!!eleventy!

Bina
Bina
10 years ago

Has anyone remarked yet about David being portrayed as “Beauty”. Is this supposed to be an insult?

By MRA lights, yes. It’s an allusion to his mangina-hood, or manginosity, or some such. Basically, anything they say about being pro-equality dies when one of them talks like that, because they’re clearly tipping their hand as profoundly sexist and misogynous. Only a woman-hater thinks that being called a “girl” or likened to a woman in any way is an insult.

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

Who is the Beast supposed to be, though? Theories?

Bina
Bina
10 years ago

Teen porn = biology? Then why is there a large amount of “MILF” porn? Also young males watch porn too, so the audience isn’t entirely made of significantly older males watching young females.

Not only that, but if a young guy’s first experiences with porn are in his early to mid-teens (and a lot of them start even younger than that), then he is by definition getting aroused by older women. Which, I take it, is what is meant by “MILF” (a maddeningly vague and more than a wee bit ooky term if ever there was one).

Not to mention that there are plenty of young men well out of their teens who find women older than themselves mighty attractive anyway. Some of them older by decades, even. What biological explanation could there be for that, I wonder?

>crickets from Atomic Pervert<

1 7 8 9 10 11 13