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.)
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!
Anyway, the pictures I don’t let through are worse.
@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.
Ah, atomicwheelchair left a few more turds in an otherwise pleasant thread:
Uh-huh. And what’s the formula for figuring out a woman’s RV?
“It’s an observable fact” is a fancy way of saying “I’m talking out my ass.”
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.
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.
Because they’re creeps?
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!
🙂
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.
@LBT
Possibly silly question, but what’s SFWA?
Marie – Science Fiction Writers of America, I think.
@kittehs
Kk. Thanks for answering :3
No worries! 🙂
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.
@ 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!!
::bows down before Furrinati Overlords::
… 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. =^.^=
fromafar2013: Two pages back in the comments.
http://manboobz.com/2014/02/10/some-of-the-comments-i-dont-let-through/comment-page-2/#comments
@ sparky
Thanks. How in gods’ name did I miss that? Comment approval delay?
Whatevs, unoriginal troll is unoriginal.
Furinatti is when they’re smartly dressed but angry anyway.
http://d2tq98mqfjyz2l.cloudfront.net/image_cache/1363549050824528.jpg
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
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.
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 🙂
Hey, Atomic Creeper! One does not “acquire” sexual partners, unless one is a rapist.
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!
“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?
OT
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee my new glasses will be ready in an hour!!!eleventy!
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.
Who is the Beast supposed to be, though? Theories?
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<