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How to get upvotes on The Spearhead: Violent rape fantasy edition

So I found this lovely little shoutout in the comments to an inane post by W.F. Price on The Spearhead last week.

Let me just preface it with a big TRIGGER WARNING for its violent rape fantasy.

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geographybeefinalisthimself February 12, 2014 at 13:02      “Is there any amount of androsphere content that Manboobz Futrelle can read, that will make him switch sides? No.”      A conservative is normally a liberal who has been mugged by reality. Futrelle would have to get ass-raped by reality so many times that he loses bowel control and contracts HIV and multiple incurable STDs before he would realize that feminism has zero benefit for men. Even after getting that badly burned, every single man will think, if he can come to his senses now, he could have come to his senses decades earlier.     Like or Dislike: Thumb up 10 Thumb down 0

Ten upvotes. No downvotes.

I guess that’s technically a rape metaphor, but it’s the most graphic rape metaphor I’ve run across in a long time.

If you ever find yourself wondering why the so-called Men’s Rights movement has never done, as far as I can tell, a single fucking thing for male victims of rape — other than rant about it online in an attempt to one-up feminists — I think this comment suggests one highly plausible explanation: because many if not most MRAs don’t actually feel empathy for the vast majority of male rape victims, who are, after all, men in prison raped by other men. They see rape as an appropriate punishment for men they don’t like, and many actually relish the thought of certain men being raped.

Indeed, even the self-described “men’s human rights activists” at A Voice for Men think that rape jokes about men they don’t like are hilarious.

I mean, it goes without saying that MRAs generally have little or no empathy for women who are raped, and indulge in rape jokes about women all the fucking time, but you’d think they’d do a better job of at least pretending to care about raped men.

If you’re interested in an organization that actually does care about victims of rape and other forms of sexual abuse in prison — regardless of the gender of the victim  — you may want to check out Just Detention International.

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Brooked
Brooked
10 years ago

@weirwoodtreehugger

Following the investigation, the DOJ issued recommendations to the University of Montana, the Missoula Police Department and the Missoula County Attorney’s Office to increase resources to combat sexual violence… Van Valkenburg told KPAX News last month that rather than comply with the DOJ’s recommendations and look into the allegations that his office systematically discriminated against victims of sexual violence, he wants to file a lawsuit against the DOJ to “save money” and “stand up for what’s right.”

Save Money? WTF? I hope he loses his job for saying that, but it’s Montana so he’s probably safe as houses.

Skye
Skye
10 years ago

Weirwood, that is truly appalling. 🙁

Also, maybe I’m projecting based on his comments and actions, but that looks like one creepy leer in the picture of the prosecutor

Kiwi girl
Kiwi girl
10 years ago

Which was the town/county where the prosecutor didn’t give a custodial sentence to a convicted rapist and the DA(?) was appealing? Is it the same place?

@Brooked:

Luckily for the MM, we don’t have to create university departments, storm corporate board rooms, burn our draws….

I have some suggestions for some draws that should be burned for complete lack of artistic merit, JudgyBitch’s drawing being one of them.

And on the post, with all this rage-chat they’re doing online, surely some of them risk coming to the attention of various arms of the US government? Related note: David, I’m really sorry that you read all that stuff that’s about you personally, it must take some toll. 🙁

Michael Søndberg Olsen

Like last time, the money is just yours.

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

Thanks Michael! I’ll put it up to a reader poll then. 😀

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

Here is the reader poll! I encourage any of my readers here on Manboobz to enter the fray and give me their input on what stories they want to see and what art they want posted! (Because thanks Michael, your donation has also meant I surpassed my fundraising bar, which means BONUS SKETCH!)

Kiwi girl
Kiwi girl
10 years ago

Can I pool my votes until you do a cat story and then cast them all at once?

Kim
Kim
10 years ago

Calling people inferior and for genocide can’t be rationally accepted by anyone

But apparently it’s completely rational to believe that feminism *is* calling for genocide.

weirwoodtreehugger
10 years ago

Much needed brain bleach

kittehserf
10 years ago

I’m weirdly fascinated by how MRAs discuss David like he’s some mystical demonic puzzle beyond mortal comprehension, rather then seeing him as a journalist and humorist they don’t like.

Of course they’re only dimly approaching the terrible truth – that David is one of the Great Furred Ones, who takes the form of ferrets in cat suits in a human suit.

Can I pool my votes until you do a cat story and then cast them all at once?

I like your thinking – MOAR BLACKSOCKSWHITE PLZ

catgirl
catgirl
10 years ago

Almost everyone in my family went from conservative to liberal over the years. My dad went from Sunday school teacher to atheist.

Brooked
Brooked
10 years ago

I wanted a photo that combined the movie Hellraiser and a cat in order to express the dark forces behind Man Boobz. The internet did not fail.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6a89a5032e1bf7ad0ffb0a61fa8a59d4/tumblr_mwbb09o6JP1qfzcnbo1_500.jpg

entropistanon
10 years ago

@Brooked: Love and hate war endlessly within the relationship I have with the internet. Love has won this battle with that picture.

Fade
10 years ago

that one comment brooked quoted…

Look, if the internet can make some of the most ridiculous shit go viral, so, can the MM.

I don’t think this came across how they intended it to XD

(i’m not commenting on any of the more horrible stuff the mras are saying here or the link weirwoodtreehugger provided b/c that would just make me think about it more, and i’m in a low-anger wanting mood.)

weirwoodtreehugger , those tigers are so cute. :3 that was some awesome brian bleech

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

The only reason no MRA dumbassery has gone viral yet* is that they’re so wordy. It’s hard to make a meme out of a 5000 word rant.

*In a “we’re laughing at you, not with you” way. As sexist as the internet can be, most of it would still laugh at the MRM.

weirwoodtreehugger
10 years ago

OK now I want to get a litter of kittens and name them after the Cenobytes.

Today my cat Dracarys did a good job of ensuring my continued submission to the Furrinatti by sitting in my lap and kneading my legs with her razor sharp claws. It was much like getting a hug from Pinhead. I could do naught but surrender to the pain and offer up as many pets as she required.

kittehserf
10 years ago

The kitteh … the kitteh in the box …

Fear the wrath of Schrodinger’s Cat

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago
ignotussomnium
ignotussomnium
10 years ago

“Boys will be boys”? That’s MRBM philosophy in a nutshell.

But if they aren’t “being boys” the right way they have to be punished in the most horrific ways. The only thing these people stand for is the most aggressive and dehumanizing form of toxic masculinity.

Marie
10 years ago

@kittehs

That pic is awesome XD

Arctic Ape
Arctic Ape
10 years ago

viral wave similar to the one that brought Twerking to social prominence

I was just reading a random fitness/health magazine targeted at women here in Finland, and in reader’s questions someone was asking, “What’s this twerking thing people are talking about…” That person was apparently on Facebook but didn’t know how to Google.

Somehow we have to figure out how to make the MM go viral. Perhaps we’re a disgruntle programmer or two away from that happening

No, no. You don’t make movements go viral by writing them into computer viruses. Unless you’re agitating for a robot uprising.

Brooked
Brooked
10 years ago

@Cassandrakitty

The only reason no MRA dumbassery has gone viral yet* is that they’re so wordy. It’s hard to make a meme out of a 5000 word rant.

*In a “we’re laughing at you, not with you” way. As sexist as the internet can be, most of it would still laugh at the MRM.

There’s a whole lot of fail in the comments, I get a kick how at the end he ends up sounding like a parody of a boozy elderly relative who spouts random nonsensical cultural observations with racist overtones.

I think we’re building to critical mass right now… After that we start seeing young boys, for instance, adopt the MM like they did with gangster rap 20-30 years ago…

Yup, that’s exactly how this going to play out if the MM has bold-minded visionaries like this guy.

I’ve never heard of any of this MRA crap until a few months ago and neither has anyone in my social circle, whom I have to convince that I’m not joking when I first discuss MRAs with them. People know a little about PUAs because of The Game book, are aware of the juvenile misogyny of the internet and historical conservative anti-feminism, but the “movement” is DOA. But keep on dreaming of viral fame, guy who doesn’t do a fucking thing to change any aspect of the world.

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

Maru is more famous and has a greater influence on society than any MRA could ever dream of.

saintnick86
10 years ago

Did he really paraphrase that obnoxious and smug asshole, P.J. O’Rourke?

*Shakes head in exasperation*