So the founder of the Men’s Rights subreddit, a fellow who now goes by the name of notnotnotfred, has done his fellow Men’s Rightsers a little favor and collected together a handy assortment of “antifeminist graphics” to assist them in their antifeministing activities on the internets. I thought I would share some of them with you all, just so you know what you’re up against.
Oh, who am I kidding? We here at Man Boobz love love love MRA graphics. There are few things in this world so hilariously awful. Take a look at these hot messes.
First, a fellow who proudly announces his plans to beat women:
It took me a little while to realize that he probably wasn’t suggesting that he was going to physically assault women, just that he considered himself superior to them, and could beat them in competition.
Then there’s this poorly thought out little poster:
Problem is, even if we accept the rather strained rape-is-like-getting-hit-by-a-car metaphor, this graphic doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. Because we DO tell cars — or at least their drivers — not to hit kids.
Before you’re allowed to drive a car, as you may recall, you have to take Driver’s Ed and pass a driving test; the importance of not hitting people with your car is rather central to both. Also, in the very picture used for the graphic, THERE’S A GUY HOLDING A SIGN TELLING CARS TO STOP SO THEY WON’T HIT THE KIDS. That’s actually HIS ENTIRE JOB.
A lot of the MRA graphics aren’t so much “graphics” as they are “bunches of words arranged in conventional paragraphs with no graphical elements at all.” Like this rant, which is highly unlikely to convince anyone of anything other than that MRAs are a bunch of angry dudes who like to yell a lot and if they can’t yell at you in person they’ll do it in .png form.
Other “graphics” in notnotnotfred’s collection are nothing more than blurry screenshots of Facebook conversations in which Mr. Fred apparently thinks the man in the conversation “won.”
No, not the “logic!” How can we ever win against “logic” like that?
It’s a sad state of affairs for the MRAs when the parodies of MRA graphics are almost always better designed than the originals. Here’s one from our own Cloudiah:
Also, thanks to Cloudiah for pointing out notnotnotfred’s little collection in the first place.
About drunk driving:
There was a guy who really, really wanted to date me, and I thought he was kind of cute, but the one thing that killed any attraction I had towards him was (a) the fact that he had a DUI and (b) the fact that he didn’t really seem to think that what he had done was wrong.
Now, the local police are running radio ads against drunk driving that say that your girlfriend will leave you if you lose your license because you aren’t cool anymore (WTF, really) and I just can’t help thinking, “No, she’ll leave you because nothing dries up attraction faster than drunk driving.” This may just be me, though.
MRAs can tell themselves whatever they want but it doesn’t change the fact that their penchant for living in the past and aversion to change is what is holding them back. Strength is increasingly becoming irrelevant in everyday life and the constant harping on it is stupid and juvenile. There are no wild animals living side by side with us anymore, unless you want to count humans who can’t control themselves or evolve, and machines are replacing manual labor. This is a knowledge-based society now and those that can’t adapt will just be left behind. Women don’t NEED to be as strong as men. If they so choose, there are options for protection.
So Nostral Guy needs to back away from his computer more and study or he won’t be “beating” anyone.
tealily – not just a penchant for living in the past, but a past that never existed.
*nostril
Haha. There is a graphic of a woman complaining about a chair being sexist. I’m assuming they mixed mister hard chairs up here as it’s so stupid only a *woman* could have said it, amiright?
hookergal: I’m wondering if the artist browsed here and heard us talking about hard chairs and never got the fact that we were mocking a specific MRA.
True, kitten serf, just in their minds.
I meant “kittehserf”. Autocorrect is getting on my nerves tonight.
Priceless! Imagine Tommy boy’s reaction if he knew that other misogynists thought his noble campaign against Buttock Misandry was so stupid only a woman could have come up with it.
Kitten serf, kittehserf, that’s fine, tealily! You can call me kittehs anyway. 🙂
“MRAs can tell themselves whatever they want but it doesn’t change the fact that their penchant for living in the past and aversion to change is what is holding them back.” – Oh yes!
“So Nostral Guy needs to back away from his computer more and study or he won’t be “beating” anyone.” – except himself :-0
It’s a shame none of us were there to respond to his posting this pic in realtime, I’d have been tempted to respond back with a photo of a piece of paper with “Penis does not go inside computer, liquid is not good for electronics” written on it.
I’ve been wandering the manosphere, and I’m back (mostly) unscathed to bring you news via AVfM about the amazing Peter-Andrew:Nolan(c)! (Link is via freezePage, so don’t worry about giving them page views.)
LOL.
Also, Manboobz has now made it to my Facebook feed 🙂
Smirking Facebook “logic’d” guy badly needs a takedown. I think it’s the smug way he completely misses the point, assumes his own conclusions, and declares victory for himself. He’s like the kid who shoves all his stuff in the closet and tells his mother his room is clean.
For example:
1) Can you carry a 7 pound baby in your stomach for 9 months?
— No. We don’t have the physiology for that. Can you get kicked in the balls? Exactly, unfair question.
Next time someone waxes on about how men are physically bigger and stronger and faster and women can’t hunt the mammoth, be Olympic athletes, or perform XYZ amazing physical feat, all women have to do is shrug and say “Different physiology. Can you have menstrual cramps? Exactly, unfair comparison.” Poof! Sexual dimorphism handwaved away.
The deeper flaw is his unexamined assumption that different physiology implies superiority. It’s a circular argument. Male traits are superior because they’re different because they’re superior, therefore they are inherently more valuable and respectable. Lifting weights = the good kind of strong. Gestating and bearing children = the Boring and Unimportant kind of strong.
If you haven’t [carried and birthed a child] you can have a nice hot cup of shut the fuck up until you do.
You mean, just like all those nebbishy keyboard jockeys who are constantly reminding us (from the sidelines of life) that men invent all the things and discover all the lands and build all the buildings and dunk all the basketballs? A demographic that most likely includes you, Logic’d Dude?
Let us know if you need a refill on that nice hot cuppa. It’s bottomless!
Can you walk all day in 5 inch heels?
Physically yes.
No, you can’t. You’d be whining and complaining after 10 minutes and nursing blisters after 20 minutes. Heels are uncomfortable, they hurt even more if you’re not used to them, and you can sprain or break your ankle if you don’t know how to walk them. Try imitating Fred Astaire sometime, but backwards and in heels.
The other items – the curling iron, the crying all night, the cooking/cleaning/talking on the phone – are examples of small everyday pressures and sacrifices that women endure for the sake of male/societal approval. Mister Logic’d naturally misses the point by a country mile and gets all literal on her. “Of course we don’t cry and burn our foreheads! We’re superior!”
@ cloudiah
Well, at least he admitted in advance that he was going to be a windbag, so I guess that counts for something. Shame he later devolved into “anyone I don’t like must be a feminist!”.
@cassandrakitty, It is always nice when they’re honest! At least about being a windbag, anyway.
Not only do we tell people driving cars not to hit kids, but we hold them responsible when they do, putting laws on the books that give pedestrians the legal right of way, stating that it is the driver’s responsibility not to hit anything already in the road, and don’t tell the kids they hit that they were probably not really hit, or probably jumped out in front of the car on purpose, and expect them to live a life where they either avoid crossing streets altogether or are never alone/constantly video taping themselves because without that sort of evidence we won’t be able to prove that they didn’t actually want the car to hit them.
Random question: did anyone here know that there is going to be an American Gods movie? I didn’t and I just found out and not even MRA stupidity can make me do anything but squee.
The dream world for these misogynists is being able to rape us and then further berate us for making them do it. That’s what they want. It’s not actually a hypocrisy after all. They just want to cause us as much pain and distress as possible and for that to be legal and socially acceptable to do so. Expecting them to either curb their behavior or take responsibility for it is not in the cards.
@Lili Fugit Yeah those comedians are garbage. I can “get mouthy” and I can read a person for filth when I need to, but my generation of women was taught to fight words with words, and to refrain from “getting mouthy” if you couldn’t emotionally handle someone “getting mouthy” back. I learned to pick my battles through whether or not I was able to deal with being told. I also learned how to talk shit well enough that, when faced with a verbal altercation, I could “win” the fight. There was never any need to raise fists despite having a pretty dramatic adolescence.
If I come at a man verbally and he wants to come right back at me verbally that’s fine, but trying to pretend like violence has any kind of place in resolving it is clear escalation on his part. And he better not try and tell me that it’s because he doesn’t know how to use his words to hurt me because I have heard men make despicably uncalled for remarks too many times to count in my life. A man who raises his fists to end a verbal altercation is one who was looking for an excuse to imo.
@Jessay
Well, that’s just it, isn’t it? At least with cars, we assume that people in general don’t want to be hit by a car, even though there have been cases of people deliberately stepping into traffic. But even then, they’re still considered victims, with a possible mental disorder, and only the most extreme cases would even entertain the possibility that they deliberately and knowingly chose to do it, no matter what the driver claims. With rape, the shitty social assumption that is unless some arbitrarily defined amount of violence is used, the victim wanted it to some degree, and just ‘regretted it’ or some other rape-culture-endorsed bullshit at a later point, completely disregarding how the rape survivor actually felt and listening to what the rapist claims.
Best summary of the MRM ever.
Well, if pedestrians wouldn’t cross so provocatively, and didn’t have a prior history of getting hit by cars, and didn’t put themselves into unfamiliar crosswalks without a protective crossing guard, and wore orange reflective vests, this wouldn’t happen. They’re just asking for it.
Of course, too many Western pedestrians nowadays do wear orange, and LED lights, and are not pleasing to cars. After all, the road was made for cars, and cars were designed by evolution to dominate pedestrians by hitting them. Brakes are for betas.
Expecting drivers to take any sort of responsibility for their actions is misautory. Clearly, this calls for a Cars’ Rights Movement.
aka the Coalition for Real Auto Protection.
From @cloudiah’s link
“Unlike ideological feminism, human rights for men and boys does not mean that the other side of the coin is to be ignored, forgotten, or vilified in some warped sense of reparations or retribution. ”
DO THEY EVEN READ WHAT THEY WRITE?