Yesterday, we looked at 6 memes from A Voice for Men’s “meme team” and decoded what they really meant. Today, some memes from AVFM’s Pinterest page that are a bit harder to decode, because they really make no sense at all. I’ll do my best to try to sort them out.
1) TALK TO THE HAND
What might it mean? “Ha ha girls talk too much, well joke’s on you because I’m GOING MY OWN WAY and later I’ll go home and make a poster about how I imagined I might I totally really did put that bitch in her place.”
I mean, that is what this poster is saying, right? It’s illustrating the notion that men and women should listen to one another by depicting a dude just up and leaving because he’s tired of listening?
How exactly does this advance any “men’s rights” other than the right of men to act like petulant children?
2) BREAKING BADDIE
What might it mean? Well, the quote itself makes sense. What doesn’t make as much sense is why alleged “human rights activists” would want to publicly identify themselves with a rage-filled amoral meth-maker and murderer who fucks up the lives of everyone around him through his own pigheadedness. I mean, Walter White is not really a good person, when you come right down to it. That made for great television, but as a role model for a “civil rights” movement, no so much.
3) VENUS MAN TRAP
What might it mean? That the person making it is very, very confused about a lot of things. This one starts off with ridiculously simplistic — and provably incorrect — premises. Men’s attitudes towards marriage haven’t undergone a 180 degree turn since the start of feminism; they weren’t that rosy(as it were) in the prefeminist world, and they aren’t so negative now.
But it’s that final statement that the real puzzler. Feminists aren’t blaming “patriarchy” for men not wanting to get married. That’s completely backwards. Marriage began as a patriarchal institution and is still steeped in patriarchal symbolism. The only thing that this poster makes clear is that the people behind it don’t know anything about feminism, patriarchy, or marriage.
4) HAVE A KNIFE DAY
What might it mean? That the person making the poster has a very vivid imagination. Once again, the folks at AVFM picture their feminist enemies as violent oppressors. This has zero basis in reality, but makes it all that much easier to justify their antifeminist hatred. The projection is strong here.
5) SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP
What might it mean? That AVFM’s antifeminists don’t realize that feminists aren’t actually interested in chivalrous providers?
6) WHO’S THE PIG NOW?
What might it mean? That AVFM meme-maker “John Galt” — clever name, huh? — hates women, fat men, and good graphic design.
7) DUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH BATMAN
What might this mean? That AVFM meme-maker “John Galt” not only thinks he’s an Ayn Randian ubermensch; he also thinks he’s Batman.
Is Christopher Nolan’s Batman really the best role model for an alleged “civil rights” movement? I mean, I suppose he’s a step up from Walter White, but, seriously dudes, maybe try to model yourself on people who don’t solve problems with violence?
8) STUPID PATRIARCHY TRICKS
What might it mean? I have no idea. Seriously, what the hell?
Buttercup – the real trick with rose bushes is to have lots of Help with them. You know, the four-footed variety.
At least that’s the theory the Furrinati at home seem to have. Louis is singularly unimpressed by it, I might add.
Roses are pretty tough things for all their problems. Someone said to me once “If you can’t keep roses alive, give up gardening.” My sister spent years trying to kill the roses in her garden at Nar Nar Goon, and nothing worked until they bulldozed the bed. 😛
Oh but you missed the best one:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/446208275553283623/
Dafuq?
MRAs know jackshit about roses and the Queen of Thorns would like a word with them.
kittehs – true, it depends how obsessive one is about producing lots of showy blooms, and whether you’ve got the right variety in the right spot (wrong variety = lots more work to keep it happy). Some roses, like rugosa, are dang near unkillable. Others are more vulnerable to disease and benign neglect. It’s about the same level of effort as maintaining a vegetable garden.
Someday I’ll have enough time again to put in that kind of work. Currently I have a beautiful garden of dandelions, which I keep randomly scattered around the lawn.
Breadandroses,
It’s painfully obvious they just took a picture of a Westboro Baptist church protest and photoshopped the word men in to replace f*gs.
What the ever loving fuck? If they’re claiming feminists hate men that much, shouldn’t they have real non-shopped photos of feminists holding up misandry signs? Funny how they couldn’t find any.
weirwoodtreehugger,
Yep, that’s exactly what they did. And I’m pretty sure that’s Andrea Dworkin’s face they shopped onto a WBC member. Also, “Penis’s [sic] Crash God Laughs”…what?
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Batman helping women in need. The Dark Knight is a white knight! We are through the looking glass, people!
They’re saying, “When penises crash, God laughs.” Because, okay, imagine like fighter planes, flying around in formation like the Blue Angels, except instead of planes, they’re penises. And whoosh, they crash straight into the side of a mountain and burst into flames! That is such a hilarious image, even GOD would laugh at it.
“Penis’s” is just a typo.
Now I’m imagining penis’ as bumper cars crashing into each other. If I were a god, I would definitely get the giggles at that.
Here’s the original pic that they (or whoever) photoshopped:
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/927/shirleyphelpsroper42436.jpg
Was this the WBC picketing some 9/11 thing? They really are (were?) terrible people.
Well, to clarify, that’s not the exact same photo, but a pic of the same protester at the same protest. Some of the other signs are in different positions. But yeah, Andrea Dworkin didn’t actually go around carrying a sign that said “Penis’s Crash God Laughs.”
WBC are still out there and protesting. One of their upcoming protests is the fucking existence of the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
The idolization of Walter White is due to his having started out as a hapless “beta” and then becoming more “alpha.” That’s what makes him a “role model” for MRAs
Not least because she knew her possessives from her plurals.
The illustrator of this manuscript was ahead of you … (sort of NSFW)
Does anyone have any good brain bleach?
I don’t want to bore everyone with the details, but I’m discussing a rape scene on a Game of Thrones site and many commenters have posted some horrible disgusting rape apologia. It’s really upsetting. I should maybe just leave the site for a while, but at the same time I want to educate people on consent and rape joke issues since I’m relatively knowledgeable about social justice issues and many of the other regulars there aren’t.
@WWTH have you hugged a chicken today?
That is adorable, titianblue!
The moral of this video is “be the cat in the middle”.
http://youtu.be/aUocSa-M2-U
Thanks to you both!
Brain bleach: Our wee kitten Bebop got adopted on Friday!
Yeah, WBC might be in for a surprise. Alaska has a lot of conservative Christians. We also have a lot of people who think that WBC’s are just absolutely contemptible. We also have a lot of people who don’t even have a clue who they are.
They show up to picket, and there will either be:
A counter protest with fun potlatch goodness, where we stand between them and their target,swapping moose recipes, natives and non-native Alaskans all together. Maybe even some dancing. Each culture has some different moves, and we might try to educate the poor folks.
Or,
No one will even give them a second thought, and they’ll get laughed at by passers by (except for maaaaaybe a few like minded folks, which WBC won’t care about, anyway).
I don’t live in the Mat-su valley, but it might be worth a trip.
::melts into puddle of WANT at the picture of Bebop::
(No, unfortunately I can’t smuggle a kitty home on the plane …)
@contrapangloss:
OMG, a fellow Alaskan ManBoobzer! The Heritage Center’s in Anchorage though, not the Mat-Su.
Nice! I’ve mostly been bouncing around between the interior and southeast.
So anchorage get’s it’s own borough? I suppose that makes sense, with it being crazy big (by Alaska town standards). I was under the misimpression that they got lumped in with Wasila and Palmer, since they’re so close.
My idea of close might be horribly skewed.
It is (sadly) fitting that Batman should be used as a poster boy for self-obsessed manchildren, since the trauma he suffered as a child essentially left his emotional development on the level of a little kid. He never learned how to deal with pain and loss in a healthy, non-destructive way, so he deals it out on people he sees deserving of violent retribution. For all his empathy for the less fortunate, Batman has little to no ability to see the various levels of oppression that perpetuate crime in a society where some can barely feed their children and others can buy fancy technological toys that make them look like life-size action figures.
Some comics have dwelt deeper into the damaged psyche that produces someone like Batman, but all too often, the right-wing social blindness and cruel revenge fantasies keep creeping in to justify his actions and keep him from developing as a character. Granted, an emotionally healthy Batman might arguably not be as interesting a character as the obsessed, angry vigilante we know, but Batman can hardly be considered a role model. I think he’s even said that much himself on a couple of occasions when another character has blurted out how much they want to be like him.
Be it as it may, I have no idea how the Ayn Rand fan understands that line from Batman Begins. It’s a pretty good piece of advice, really, since many people (especially MGTOWs and other MRAs) say one thing and do another. “Who I am underneath: a human rights activist who’s going his own way! Also, a Nice Guy! What I do: Type angry shit on my keyboard about how horrible women are!”
@skullpants:
Minimum sex for maximum effort. Cultivating liquid gold makes roses look easy.