Today, just a recommendation: if you’d like to learn more about the wrongheaded and often quite bewildering opinions of Men’s Rights grandpappy Warren Farrell, take a look at the excellent Farrell’s Follies series now being posted on the AgainstMensRights subreddit. The Redditor known as feminista_throwaway has been systematically going through Farrell’s Myth of Male Power and looking in detail at Farrell’s positions on such issues as “Date Fraud,” why it’s supposedly easier to be a gay man than a straight man, why patriarchy is women’s fault, and how men and women don’t really love each other. There’s a guide to the whole series here.
kittehs – we are DOOMEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
If we’re all ugly bitter lesbians, does this mean we have to dress in ApprovedUglyBitterLesbian™ fashion? Because overalls and a buzzcut really don’t suit me, and I’ve finally got it all sorted with makeup and don’t want to have to bin it all!
Cloudiah, the AFVM brigade’s comments on that Queen’s Journal story are appalling even by their standards.
Why do I read the comments? Here’s one by DriverSuz. There’s a bunch of other comments, also, to the effect that feminism is a violent hate movement.
So, today I learned that when a feminist student gets assaulted, it proves that feminism is a violent hate movement.
Awwww. I don’t even get to be a cat. I’m just a splotch. 🙁
Cloudiah, for some the first comment on that story was “you will never meet a Muslim feminist.” What that had to do with the story I don’t know. I have met Muslim feminists before, but OK bro!
Then they all smugly point out that it isn’t proven that the attack was related to her feminism. Of course, the article actually pointed that out already.
There you go manboobzers. I read the comments so you don’t have to.
That is such a terrible logo.
Huh? I’m going to need a citation on that one, Now I’m glad I only read the HuffPo comments.
No no no, you’re not a splotch, you’re a trippy Op Art piece.
If we are all bitter ugly lesbians, where do bisexuals (and asexuals and demisexuals and other sexuals that I might not know about) fit into this? Are they figments of our imagination?
Am I going to have to break up with my boyfriend, cut off all my hair, and be woman-only from now on? Even though I’m supposed to have sex with men?
Wait, I’m pretending that any of this makes sense. It doesn’t. He says black people are an endangered species! Oh, so half of my ancestors are actually rare beings that preserve themselves via welfare and male exclusion. Yeah, okay. Have fun imagining women’s butts that you can’t touch.
He makes some goofy movies, but he’s not that bad.
Holy cats, driversuz is dumb and mean.
Yup. Totally imaginary.
Even being lesbian is imaginary, ‘cos we know women only do Teh Secks together to give dudes something to look at. I daresay we’re bitter lesbians because we’re ugly and real manly menz don’t want to look at us, because sad boners.
Fun fact: I found out about MRAs from Warren Farrel’s work. And by that, I mean someone posted a thread about a feminist protest at one of his talks, and someone else in that thread posted the date fraud exert, defending it. I was pretty much anti-MRA from then on out, considering the people defending the exert thought of him as the ideological father and least extreme figure in the movement. I still don’t know how anyone could think of him any higher than David Icke or the Timecube guy.
@J.J: Hey now, some of us are cuckolded, beta-male, white knight, manginas! D:
I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m totally a dark-skinned woman with fire coming out of my right eye and a snazzy pink poncho.
And I’m not actually an undead teenage shrine maiden? The world is turning upside down. D=
I am totally a blue foldie kitten sticking my tongue out at everyone.
XD
We must all assert our gravatarness (or is that gravatariosity?)!
‘Cos that means I’m sitting in a comfy bed instead of an uncomfy desk chair right now.
katz is totally the Chimera of Arezzo that takes care of kittens.
And I am definitely a classic grindcore album cover. 😛
I am a pink flower.
Which means I am a vagina.
Which means I am a 24/7 all access PAAAAAR-TAY. Or something.
@BreakfastMan
Oh, you beta males do not count, you are merely slaves to our boot-ays.
That are ugly and make sad boners but still enslave men.
…okay, it is officially sleepy time ’cause now my brain is just going butts butts butts butts butts.
I didn’t know that was even possible 🙁
Or boot-arrs when we’re in pirate mode.
I could only see a succession of fuzzy cat butts when I read that. They do seem to think it’s their best view.
I’m a lion. RAWR!!!
That’s still more intelligent and nuanced than the average MRA.