Meet Sasha. Sasha is an angry young man living in England (allegedly), with a super-HAWT girlfriend (allegedly), and a lot of opinions about feminism (not-so-allegedly). The other day, he decided to share some of these opinions with the world. Or at least with any of those feminists who happened to be reading the Men’s Rights subreddit at the time.
In a topic devoted to a conference on “lad culture” in British universities, Sasha lashed out at feminists for what he sees as their hypocritical attack on boorish, sexist “lads.” Hypocritical, you see, because these very same women allegedly have sex with posh men all the bloody time:
You don’t like ‘lad culture’? My dear, I don’t give a fuck what you do and don’t like. … The hypocrisy is staggering – you’ll be dropping your knickers in a flash if a dashing Etonian invited you to the Bullingdon, but God forbid some working class fella gets a bit tipsy and sings a rugby song.
Naturally, he dismissed women’s accounts of harassment as stuff and nonsense:
You’ve been threatened with rape by fellow students ‘to loosen you up’? have you fuck, you lying toe tag. If you’re going to make shit up try to make it less fantastical why don’t you.
So in short my dear, fuck you and fuck the high horse you rode in on.
In a series of followup comments so angry that some of them were actually downvoted to zero by the Men’s Rights crowd — I know, right! — Sasha pranced about on his own high horse spewing misogynistic nonsense. First, he demanded that feminists take on the very serious gold-digging whore problem:
[A]re women inclined to be gold-digging whores? Unfortunately, there’s a good case for saying you are. I wouldn’t paint all of you with such a broad brush, but let’s put it simply: feminists – you’ve got to own this shit. There are many, many negative aspects of femininity, and you’ve got enough shit of your own to address before you start pointing fingers at anyone else.
Then he proclaimed feminists to be the equivalent of the racist English Defense League and the Klan.
You’re a bigot. You don’t understand that you’re a bigot, because like the EDL or the KKK you think that your status as a ‘persecuted group’ gives you the right to behave as vilely as possible. However be in no doubt as the depth of my utter disgust for you as a human being and for your ideology.
Oh, we be in no doubt.
You are a supporter of an ideology of hate. You are a feminist. You are, by definition, a fascistic narcissist who trades in lies, deceit and hatred. I will fight you until my dying breath and society would be better without you. That clear enough?
When a female Redditor pointed out that she herself had been catcalled on campus, he pulled out his trump card: his EX-MODEL GIRLFRIEND.
OK, well how do you explain the fact that my partner, who is an attractive 20-something American former fashion model attending a Northern English university, says that she has never, not once, ever, heard a single catcalling insult or ever felt threatened in any way whatsoever on her campus, or anywhere in the UK?
I faxed this comment of his to my fax girlfriend Kate Winslet, and she faxed back a message about what a lying loser she thought he was. Then we fax made out for a while until we ran out of toner.
Anyway, then Sasha yelled at his main critic for a bit:
You’re not a decent human being, you’re a feminist. You’re as vile and reprehensible as other bigots like the cunts in the Westborough Baptist Church, or Golden Dawn or the EDL or the KKK. Fuck you, fuck the family that raised you in such a cloud of ignorance and hatred, and fuck everything you stand for.
As for ‘helping men’, disparaging bigoted cunts like you is a key part of it.
Yes, that’s right. He called someone a “bigoted cunt,” without the slightest bit of self-awareness.
Then he took it a bit too far:
By the way, do you like cats? I know most feminists do. I like cats too. I’ll bet your cat thinks you’re a bigoted cunt as well.
Dude. Don’t EVEN go there.
NOTE: Thanks to Cloudiah and the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to Sasha’s oeuvre.
I am passionate over it, because I am passionate about misogyny, and I personally interact with some misogynistic comments on a regular basis, and I could just see some people picking up on this poster and ridiculing those “silly women who can’t even get grammar right.” It isn’t obvious satire, which would have been funny.
So, what you’re saying is you expect gratitude for coming in here and making a criticism in a snotty tone? If you truly meant it to be constructive criticism you would use a praise sandwich or use some other method to make sure you didn’t come across as nasty.
Now you’re threatening to leave like it’s supposed to bother us. A MRA troll drove by and dropped a similar comment the other day. He said “don’t call us, we’ll call you.” Congratulations for that. Do you want a cookie?
If you need you satire obvious this blog is not a good fit for you.
Quick, go to Jezebel, there’s way more issues for you to solve on that website.
I already said I would prefer a war capybara. I don’t play games with cloaking a critical comment in praise. Not sure of the rest of your connection. Shrug.
Actuallly thebewilderness, David’s satire is very good and quite obvious. Such as the fact that claiming historical verisimilitude in a game that features orcs and trolls is …. mind-numbing. That article was a brilliant piece of satire.
You perhaps missed it but most peeps have been shrugging at you for a while now.
Oh FFS – it was a parody quoting (I think) a specific poster, and anyone who’s seen MRA posters in general will know that their grammar sucks.
You’re talking like you’ve got your arse stuffed with tweed.*
*thank you PT
Noooooo don’t mention the
wartriangles!@kiwigirl I don’t care for that site. I care for this one precisely because it is genuinely funny. Satire isn’t easy. Most people who think they are funny aren’t.
DDW:
Well, if it’s at that point, then the logical thing to do would be to not add anything further.
It’s a degenerate triangle that lies around all day smoking cuban cigars in a thick, chenille dressing gown. And velvet slippers. It is the Oscar Wilde of triangles.
@kittehserf, I have seen MRA posters, haven’t seen one with such bad grammar. Again not obvious. There is an MRA advocate I interact with regularly, and he sends me around to read this and that in his posts, and I have never seen such an example. Of course I could have missed it, but I point to what I already said.
RE: DDW
I could just see some people picking up on this poster and ridiculing those “silly women who can’t even get grammar right.”
Dude, these are people who use STOCK PHOTOS to prove that women are awful. I really don’t think using impeccable grammar is going to do anything to change their minds on that front.
@sparky, people are saying some things still that seem to want a response.
Really? The mission statement of the blog is right up top. Misogyny, I mock it. We try to have fun in the comments as well. Humor is a good way to cope with bigotry. This isn’t academia.
Nobody appreciates a wet blanket coming in here an acting pompous. If you’re too intellectually superior to make silly jokes and talk about kitties you’re free to go elsewhere.
I’m honestly not sure how you expected to be treated when you come in with a rude comment right off the bat. You get back what you give.
It gives them one less weapon. That is my concern.
You mean that thing you said over and over and over and over and over until peeps shrugged you off? That?
This is a new take on a concern troll.
Stop feeding the troll, everyone. It’s a waste of time to argue.
This dude is better than counting sheep.
DDW: No, at this point, people are openly mocking you.
The only thing standing between feminism and its acceptance by MRAs is occasional poor grammar on our part.
How could we be so *blind*?
Hm… checks pants. I am not a dude. My husband is very relieved.
I never said acceptance by MRAs, I said credibility and access to those who aren’t in the inner circle of knowing the minutae.
I no curr.