Anyone who reads the Men’s Rights subreddit on a regular basis knows that when you see the username DavidByron2 you are in for a treat. Well, a “treat” in the sense that discovering a flaming bag of dog poop on your doorstop is a “treat.” Like many Men’s Rightsers, he’s both smug and ignorant, a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.
But somehow he manages to be more than just another insufferable mansplaining rage-baby who spends all of his spare time ranting about a subject — feminism — he knows less than nothing about. No, there’s a kind of daft genius to his comments; I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
And so I thought I’d wind up this week with a small collection of the best –that is, worst — comments he left in the Men’s Rights subreddit this week. In choosing the top 5, I have confined myself mostly to those that got more upvotes than downvotes, because, seriously, the thought that there are actual human beings out there upvoting this crap is almost as amazing as the fact that there’s an actual human being posting it. And thinking himself quite clever and righteous for doing so.
Let’s work our way to the top starting with …
5) Getting cat-called is a form of power women have over men:
4) One MRA can fend off twenty feminists with his superior LOGICKING:
3) Society is bizarrely fixated on punishing rape to an unhealthy degree:
2) Feminism has to steal legitimacy from the struggles of truly disadvantaged groups because women don’t have any real issues:
1) But DavidByron2’s masterpiece this week was his argument that if women are really as scared of men as the feminists (allegedly) say they are, then they should probably be banned from doing pretty much everything.
Dunning, Kruger, meet DavidByron2.
LBT, there’s a term from the webcomic Sluggy Freelance – ‘flaking napstitches’ – that I rather like.
My wedding band has amethyst (husband’s birthstone) and aquamarine (mine) with a bridge of diamond connecting them. We designed them with the help of a local jeweler.
Pond scum works for me. 🙂
http://thebicker.net/post/80924870644/woman-assaulted-after-protesting-mra-group
Anand, this is who you gave money to.
So much for not supporting violence.
Wrong thread. Oops.
Psh, like Anand will read it anyway. And even if he does, he’ll insist he’s not supporting violence, he didn’t care about that money!
Dear lord, not something that pluralizes like ‘octopus!’
I like saying “reactionary dipshit”, personally, because it encompasses all kinds of bigotries, not just misogyny.
Malidiots (malignant/malevolent idiots).
Balarick, I think this is the first time I’ve seen your Laser Kitty Beams of Death gravatar – all hail the Furrinati!
That “boiz” was new to me, too; I had no idea it was a word.
Heh. Australian insults applicable to MRAs:
If brains were gunpower he couldn’t blow off his hat.
I wish you were a headache, then I could take an Aspro and you’d go away. (The Troll Special)
One for Anand: He’s got more dollars than cents.
Some gems from then-PM Paul Keating, about various members of the Opposition:
He’s all tip and no iceberg.
Slithering, mangy maggot. (About John Howard – total truth there)
Unrepresentative swill (very true of the MRM thinking they speak for all men)
Couldn’t raffle a duck in a pub. (Old insult – variations are “couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery” and so on.)
Limpest performance I’ve ever seen. It was like being flogged with a warm lettuce. It was like being mauled by a dead sheep. (Apt for trolls’ attempts at insults.)
He said all this stuff in Parliament, btw.
[CN: abuse, transmisogyny]
I was just thinking about how this dude thinks that the notion that women are afraid of male violence is absurd because that would mean that women are incapable of functioning in daily life. And yes, it’s true that he posits a false dichotomy in that women’s systematic fear of men needn’t be pathological, maladaptive, produced by anxiety disorders, etc. (Note the disablism.)
But you know what? I actually do know women who have difficulty functioning in daily life because of their experiences with malicious, abusive people who have privilege over them. I have heard of women so severely debilitated by traumatic disorders as a result of abuse that they can barely even spend time at work without experiencing general emotional distress and panic attacks.
I’m sure all of the trans women I know who are too afraid to leave their house because of their histories of men raping them, abusing them, shouting slurs at them, and mercilessly bullying them for being a “tr*nny” or a “f*gg*t” would LOVE to fucking hear from Mr. DavidByron2 that they are just pathetic and can’t possibly exist. Such human rights. Fucking asshole.
emilygoddess: In the jewelry trade solitaire settings are referred to as, “snaggers”.
I have a 14k Yellow/10K White four-strand puzzle ring with a round (brilliant) cut sapphire in it. The setting is low, so the ring is sort of flush. Because the bottom of the stone isn’t open the setting isn’t pierced below) it’s not as brilliant as it might be.
Count me in the people who find diamonds generally rather boring, at least as rings. I don’t much like the standard designs in the jewellers’ around town; they’re clunky.
I used to wear amethysts, marcasite and garnet jewellery back in my Goth days. Now I go for opaque minerals in plain silver – magnetite, aventurine, agate, that sort of thing. I bought a Petoskey stone ring in Chicago.
BFF who’s marrying this month has a lab-made diamond engagement ring. When we were in Chicago we saw a ring in Cartier’s window, same design, and the only reason it looked any better was because it was under strong lights. Ha!
Balarick — I want to frame that with the title “how you do an apology”! I figured you just didn’t know, no worries 🙂
Rings — plain silver/steel with some variety of flat shape or a low set stone with a full setting around it (no sticky uppy bits). I have a policy against jewelry that sticks in my hair!
Smugnoramus => Smugnoramuses — noun, a smug ignoramus // ignorant person. It’s perfect.
Or smugnoranus, smug ignoramus who’s full of shit.
Ow, yeah, rings catcing in hair, painful. It’s one more reason I don’t do earrings any more – main one being any weight in the lobes is too uncomfortable, these days.
Rings catching in knitted clothes are a no-go, too.
Interesting thing at work today. Nice enough couple, looking to get their son a gift. Economising in a way that seemed at odds with presentation. Woman had a band, with stones and a 2ct, or so, snagger. Looked like pale citrine.
Nope. Yellow diamond. Looked to have a visible flaw (or a crap setting), so it wasn’t as pricey as it might have been: like this only bigger. So… between 6-12 grand worth of ring.
My favorite part of that pulp cover is the annoyed expression on the other guy’s face. He’s like “Again, Steve? You need to stop sleeping with sardines in your pocket”.
Pecunium — putting on airs? Idk, I can sympathize though, having dated people with money (like, the ex-fiancé’s father was a dot com millionaire) — feel completely out of place, but dressed for the role, one hopes.
Kitteh — I haven’t worn dangle earrings since like middle school maybe? (Call it since I was 13, idk if you have middle school // junior high there). Studs and plugs for my gauged holes. And my studs are labret studs — meant for the back to be in your mouth, so pretty hair proof.
Glock H. Palin, Esq –
BWAHAHAHHAHA love it!
By the way, did you get your Welcome Package?
Argenti – your middle and high school are all high school here; we have kindergarten, primary school and high school.
I always preferred dangle earrings, when I could wear them; short ones just didn’t show under my hair. I’ve always worn my hair forward, to frame my face, not be drawn back from it.
To give credit where it’s due, the sheep line originated with British Cabinet Minister Denis Healey, who used it to describe his political opponent Geoffrey Howe in 1978 – eleven years before Keating came out with an only very slightly modified version (Keating said “mauled”, Healey “savaged”).
I’d forgotten the line about being savaged by a dead sheep – but now you mention it, I do recall having read it (probably in a book of noteworthy insults) many years ago. Savaged sounds better than mauled, too. 😀
The historical irony is that the dead sheep in question, Geoffrey Howe, ended up being the man whose devastating resignation speech led directly to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher a few weeks later. So I’d give dead sheep a wide berth if I were you.
Ha! If that dead sheep led to Thatcher’s resignation, I’d give it the Zombie Heroism Award.