From Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, here’s a little skit taking on the phenomenon of the Nice Guy. No fedoras so be seen, but other than that she pretty much covers all the bases, right on down to the neckbeards on some of the fellas. Caution: Mild creepshaming.
NOTE TO ANGRY MRAS: This video does not represent an official statement on the part of feminism. Amy Schumer is a COMEDIAN.
The guys in the skit didn’t seem like typical PUAs or MRAs…no negging. They are more like what the Manospherians call white knights, or beta manginas. Still creepy nonetheless.
Good stuff Amy Schumer maybe al little crass for some tastes but I personally believe there is no other comedian tackling subjects like gender and sexuality in such fearless way and confrontational way.
Ready or not, they aren’t supposed to be PUAs. they’re “Nice Guys.” I’ve written a lot about the “Nice Guy” phenomenon:
http://manboobz.com/?s=nice+guy
If anyone ever addressed me m’lady and they weren’t dressed in a way that indicated that they were on their way to a Ren Fair I’d think they were smoking crack. Do I look like I’m wearing one of those hats that’s like an upside down ice cream cone to you?
That was hilarious. Thanks for reminding me that I need to catch the latest episode! That herpes scare sketch is also really funny. It’s a perfect mockery of entitled white women.
RE: Ready-Or-Not
They are more like what the Manospherians call white knights, or beta manginas.
Ew, is THAT what they think I am? Well, that’s just gross.
(That said, these guys aren’t NEARLY as bad as the ones I’ve encountered. No jokes about raping me!)
That thing where she says “but I don’t want to lead them on” and the other gal says apologetically, “You can’t win” .
So true! Getting over the completely misguided sense that I was responsible for somehow leading men on… wait, more specifically, realizing that indeed I had never led anyone anywhere and that it was a trip guys were putting off on me? That was a liberating moment.
ZOMG, that “Christmas Story” leg lamp in the background!
And the TurboTax thing reminds me that I need to download my tax forms from the gummint website, and fill them out with the dreary details of my unexciting career. Fun, fun.
Also, I “ugh”ed a lot at the sad dudes. Poor things.
“I think you owe me that much”
HURL
That puts him right into creeper territory.
Yeah, for me too. Can’t be stressed enough.
“Sad-eyed weasel.” That’s perfect. She pretty much nailed these guys.
Yikes, that ending. It’s like a horror movie. “Night of the Nice Guys”.
Felicity watched in terror as they slowly emerged from basement lairs. Thousands and thousands…they were legion, multiplying and covering the earth. They were being driven aboveground by the collapse of the internet, which had finally seized up under the strain of downloading trillions of yottabytes of hentai and brony porn.
Moaning with entitlement, they lurched towards her. She was now Chosen. She had forty-eight hours to get to the safety of a friendzone…
I bet there would be some pretty awesome sword fights.
(CUT: Oval Office, the President is speaking using the National Emergency Broadcast. The president looks haggard, with bags under the eyes and a suit that’s crumpled. The tie is hanging lacklusterly around the neck)
“Dear Nation, I bring you grave news tonight.”
(Pause, visible shudder)
“Since the Tech-Terrorists known as The Voice of M.A.L.E. struck and destroyed our internet infrastructure, we have been beset by a terrible curse as hordes of NIce Guys flooded, fedora’d, from their basement lairs, incessesantly yammering about the F-Zone, sluts and favours.”
(Briefly, the president twitches)
“Over the last many weeks our fellow Americans have attempted to stem the tide of Nice, to little avail. It has been a harrowing time. We are, it must be said, no closer to a cure. No vaccine have so materialized. It seems the infection is highly virulent, mutative and endlessly wheedling. The bitches at the CDC have so far failed all efforts to fight this curse. This may be the final days.”
(Suddenly shaking, the president lets out a low gasp)
“Bitches? The bitches at the CDC? They have worked hard to… avoid… giving us the… closure we need… Those hard, industrious wor–wor..– WHORES have refused to help us solve this crisis, because the virus has so far been inscrutable…”
(The president is visibly sweating now, shaking. Low murmurs are filling the room from the offscreen camera crew)
“It seems… they’d rather… study… that…. bad boy ebola all the time. They don’t even time to pay attention to a Nice virus. And after all the funding we gave them! And those grants! And we helped build a whole new HQ!”
(Someone is desperately yelling for the feed to be cut, but the president has stopped shaking and has now gripped the podium – sweat bolstered by the exertion of spittled anger)
“Fucking slutty scientists and their chemical warfare programmes! Who was there all the time they spent so much time panicking about the Swine Flu? Who listened to all their complaints about the Bird Flu? And they can’t even handle a bit of Nice? That’s the last fucking time I approve their funding appeals!”
(The Oval Office is in uproar, people running, screams. A rapidly speaking high pitched voice repeats the word “hypergamy” over and over, and the president is drowned out in a screech of white-noise.
The feed cuts)
Wipes away tears of laughter – not quite the apocolypse that the MRAs dream of.
The alarm for when (not if) the M’Lady angrily turns on you got me good because it’s so true! Every. Damn. Time. “I spent money I didn’t even have on that very expensive (but completely not your taste) bracelet that I said I bought you ‘just because.’ How many blowjobs did that get me, huh? I’ll tell you, zero blowjobs.”
This skit was incredibly accurate.
Hello, guys! *waves*
I would pay to see Night of the Nice Guys in the theater. I’d even be willing to pay the evening price instead of the matinee.
Fibinachi: Brilliant!
OT: I looked at AVoiceforMen FB page again and found another bizarre image (if anyone remembers that picture of a spider proving rape culture is propaganda?)
This is even weirder:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=636566653065486&set=a.607729695949182.1073741826.102001393188684&type=1&theater
WTF. I’m so lost on whatever point this is trying to make. Anyone want to take a stab at breaking it down for me?
Seems to be just an excuse to make a juvenile rape joke. Nice.
Have I correctly understood the joke to be “asking men not to rape women when they are drunk or otherwise incapacitated is as ridiculous as asking land masses to stop moving”?
By “they,” I mean the women.
I would also pay good money to see Night of the Nice Guy/em> in theaters.
It looks like that AVFM poster is equating rape with an unstoppable natural force, like tectonic plates moving. And the idea of rape culture is silly because Vancouver Island looks like a penis.
Well, that was an interesting way to format that.
Yeah, I think it’s meant to point out that rape culture is some ridiculous myth. There’s a second, even more disturbing layer to it though. It’s also saying that it’s an inevitability that tectonic plates will shift. By comparing tectonic plate shifts to rape, they are saying that it’s also an inevitability that men will rape because that’s what nature dictates they will do.
I think that subtext was put in there unconsciously. MRAs certainly aren’t very self aware.