It’s the eternal question: do misogynists spend their entire lives looking for excuses to get mad at women, or are they so naturally enraged by any evidence of female autonomy that they can’t help but erupt in rage over the tiniest of things?
We may never know the answer to that question. What we do know: almost anything can provoke them, no matter how trivial it is, no matter how misguided their anger might seem to anyone who doesn’t actually, you know, hate women. Let’s look at some of the latest things to cause women-haters to lose their shit.
1) British tennis champ Andy Murray’s announcement this week that he was hiring former female tennis champion Amélie Mauresmo as his coach. Even though she’s, you know, a lady.
On Twitter, as Buzzfeed has chronicled, some have taken exception to Mauresmo’s status as a non-man.
https://twitter.com/zainmohammed786/status/475642785979449344
https://twitter.com/ollieman_95/status/475620687391260672
Others have suggested that maybe she’s more of a man than him – ho ho!
Amelie mauresmo to be andy murray's new tennis coach! About sums him up he plays like a woman only she's more man than he'll ever be.
— Paul Kemp (@53pkempy) June 8, 2014
Why it would matter to any of these people just whom someone who is not them wants as his coach remains unclear.
2) An article on the Huffington Post noting that on D-Day, one woman – war correspondent Martha Gellhorn – accompanied the 150,000 men who stormed the beaches.
It’s an interesting story: all the female correspondents who requested spots on the boats were turned down, so she ended up sneaking her way into the invasion by hiding in a ship’s bathroom.
But over on the A Voice for Men forums, someone called Humansplaining w/ Jarred is outraged that “Feminists can’t even let Men have D-DAY for themselves!”
Here we are on the 70th anniversary of a watershed moment in one of the bloodiest wars in human history, where thousands of men selflessly gave their lives, and some Feminist feels the need to devote an entire article to the fact that there was also ONE woman involved! There you go, it’s official – the ratio of worth from women to men, is 1:150,000. Those two are completely equal in the eyes of many Feminists, apparently. You can spend all your time relaying the experiences of that one female in great detail, without even the slightest nod to the individual experiences of those 150,000 other human beings that were involved, many of whom perished in the process. Because VAGINA.
Yep. That’s right. Telling the story of one woman on D-Day is an attack on all the men involved. Hell, let’s take that further. Any story told about any individual person involved in a collective effort should be considered a grave insult to all the others. Saving Private Ryan is an insult to all soldiers who weren’t Private Ryan!
3) LEGO is launching a new series of scientist minifigures – only this time, they’re women!
On the Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them) website, British MRA and would-be politician Mike Buchanan sniffs that this move by LEGO belongs in the
‘You couldn’t make this s*** up!’ file. Doubtless it will sell well to hatchet-faced mothers determined to quash any signs of femininity in their unfortunate daughters.
Apparently acknowledging the existence of female scientists is somehow an injustice to men and boys?
4) Older women sometimes have sex with younger men.
There’s a certain kind of man who likes to loudly declare just which women – or categories of women – he “wouldn’t bang.” Our old friend Heartiste – the white-nationalist, purple-prose-writing pickup guru – is a member of a slightly smaller subgroup: he gets angry when other men have sex with the women he’s declared unsuitable, a group which apparently includes all but 0.1% of women his age and older.
In a recent post, Heartiste lambastes the dating site CougarLife.com as a symptom of our “rapid cultural collapse.” Its crime? Matching up “mangy cougars” and their “dusty muffs” with “inexperienced younger men hauling a knapsack of blue balls.”
While Heartiste directs most of his hate at the so-called cougars themselves – for the crime of having sex while female and forty plus – he’s indignant that younger men, in his mind, allow themselves to resort to
the shabby hole of a bottom shelf jezebel to alleviate your incel. … a tepid squirt of pallid pleasure in exchange for your dignity and psychologically distressing confirmation that this is the best you might ever do.
Apparently the idea that a younger man and an older women might actually enjoy having sex with one another is too much for his fragile misogynist mind to take.
Indeed, it’s hard not to wonder if Heartiste actually likes sex at all – or if his own alleged lovemaking prowess extends much beyond a “tepid squirt.” This, after all, is a guy who thinks going down on a woman is “beta,” because burying your face in what he calls that “fetid, humid mess” is sort of icky, and might lead her to think that you think she’s hot.
And last but not least:
5) Some people are trying to get colleges to take rape more seriously.
In a column in the Washington Post, George Will sniffs that colleges, by addressing what he calls “the supposed campus epidemic of rape” are bestowing upon “’sexual assault’ victims” a “coveted status that confers privileges,” thus encouraging others to jump aboard the victimhood express.
Others have already torn apart Will’s argument pretty thoroughly. So I’ll just note one not-so-little irony: the headline for Will’s column, as it ran in the Post, was “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.”
Why is it that the people who most loudly condemn the supposed “cult of victimhood” are the first to claim that they’re the ones who are really being victimized – by “progressives,” by feminists, by female tennis coaches, by stories about women in war, by LEGO figurines of female scientists, by women they don’t like having consensual sex, by anti-rape activists trying to create a climate in which more than 12% of rape survivors on campuses feel safe enough to report their rapes?
Haha, good point. Kim, would you like some rabbits?
Wow, that would be awesome. I could probably help with research – there’ll be a lot of it!
First of all, you are impressing no one with your terrible spelling. Here’s a helpful hint. If you type a word and it has red squiggles underneath it, it’s misspelled. Second of all, to attack MRA philosophy they would have to have a philosophy. All they do is spout a secular version of the argument that women are the root of original sin because Eve ate the apple.
We get MRAs trolling by claiming to be above the fray and neutral quite often. You are most definitely one of them. Use of the word “gynocentric” is a tell. Only MRAs talk like that. We aren’t nearly as stupid as you think we are.
You aren’t going to scare us into thinking that we ruined feminism that easily. We’ve dealt with people like you before.
Hey Paul, here’s a tissue. In case you get a nosebleed from sitting atop that high horse of feigned neutrality.
Re: Paul
No, we can totally tell that it’s clear he’s a hard-core social justice warrior.
Only someone so enlightened would use “sister” in such a belittling and sexist way, because he’s totes being ironic you guys!
I’m willing to bet he necroes this thread when he thinks we’ve all moved on so it can look like he got the last word.
Those sorts of trolls are the most pathetic and dishonest of all. I’d rather fight a troll who’s upfront about their misogyny, instead of one who pretends like they’re descending from the clouds to bestow Super-Evolved Advanced Wisdom on the lowly mud-dwelling rabble. Invariably, these Demigods of Neutrality lack any sort of ethical compass or critical thinking skills, which is what allows them to skate through life thinking they’re superior to people who have the courage to take a moral stand.
Off topic of discussion, but on topic for the article: in my recent attempts at online dating, I have hit the milestone of my first cougar hunter. He was very polite and charming, and pretty in that 22yr. old Asian boy way. I was howling with laughter about his desire for a “mature, adult woman”.
Did I ever call myself mature anywhere?
And, seriously, we don’t even have to go to the mani sphere to find “killallwomen” comments, because they’re kind enough to put them in every comment section of every major newspaper’s website.
I did actually see a comment like that Jezebel a few days ago. Except it wasn’t from a feminist. It was a misogynist troll who was satirizing feminists in what he thought was a most amusing way. The funniest part of the whole thing was that another misogynist troll thought he was serious and started fighting with the first troll. Never grasping that the first troll was one of his own kind.
What is it about misogyny that makes you completely unable to tell satire, hyperbole, and seriousness apart from each other.
I’m going to go with stupidity as the causal link.
We don’t even need to go to the comment section. We only need to read the editorials in the Washington Post this week. They found it acceptable to publish the opinion that women need to stop “taking lovers” and get married if we don’t want to get raped and abused. Can anyone imagine them publishing a “misandrist” editorial that is at all equivalent to that?
From paul:
Is a “gendered trench” one in the shape of either the female symbol with the circle and cross or the male symbol with the arrow? Might be a bit cramped.
weirdwoodtreehugger, I went down a rabbit hole on this topic the other day. Quite interesting. I wish I could remember what it was called but apparently it’s a fairly well-known “thing” that trolls frequently don’t recognize other trolls and get into fights with them. It was quite hilarious, and it’s due to both of their mistaken beliefs about the extremism of whatever subject they’re trying to “satirize”.
Our trench is pink and sparkly and smells like strawberries!
“All they do is spout a secular version of the argument that women are the root of original sin because Eve ate the apple.”
Here is a link talking about it
http://www.soldierofchrist.com/learn/fault-of-the-fall.htm
I like our gendered trench because it’s decorated with pretty hard backed chairs and scented fucking candles. Also there are kitties frolicking everywhere.
The MRA trench is probably full of nothing but barely legal porn, used and abused tube socks and long ties. I’ll pass.
“I did actually see a comment like that Jezebel a few days ago. Except it wasn’t from a feminist. It was a misogynist troll who was satirizing feminists in what he thought was a most amusing way. The funniest part of the whole thing was that another misogynist troll thought he was serious and started fighting with the first troll. Never grasping that the first troll was one of his own kind.”
That’s not surprising to hear, I remember a guy complained that women were very mean towards him in the online dating world, and then I recall another guy who admit posing as girls in online dating to trolling around,basically making very cruel comments towards any guys who interested in his girl persona.It makes me wonder how many troll out there who posing as girls are actually doing this….
Men can really be their own worse enemy at times..
By the way how did the misogynistic troll fighting going on at Jezebel?
Whoops, just saw Paul’s comment.
1) MRAs and other manosphere types have a tendency to screen negative comments.
2) Have you ever tried to argue with these idiots? You’d have better luck debating a brick wall.
3) “Philosophy” implies they’ve ever given this shit any thought.
“SJWs”, “Class > everything”, “women elsewhere have it worse” and “let me mansplain you about real sexism”: you basically scored BINGO in one sentence. Not sure if that’s something to be proud of, but “A” for effort!
False dichotomy.
Hang on… if we’re in a gendered trench… do I have to climb out?
But I don’t want to. It’s all muddy up there… and it smells funny! 🙁
Everybody’s welcome in our gendered trench! It’s Bring Your Own Candle Night!
‘You should shut this site down because shining a light on all the terrible things we say and do hurts our fee-fees….cough…I mean because you’re hurting feminism. HAH!’
And now I know they deliberately say that feminism is just the other side of the coin to mra’s, I’ll get less annoyed over it. If it’s ignorance, it makes you want to explain, but deliberate assholery is another matter.
Sorry: false dichotomy, because one can spend an hour or two mocking misogyny AND ALSO do “real” activism. There’s still 22 hours to work with.
I don’t think A Modest Proposal came with a disclaimer, either.
Wow. The point went so far over your head, it’s a threat to future space missions.
False. Demonstrably false, if you’ve been reading the site for a couple of months.
Also, you fail as hard at leaving as you do at logic and understanding. But thanks for giving us something to chew on (*squeak squeak*)
Yeah, ideologies that adapt themselves to new climates, new developments, and new contexts should never be trusted. I know some creationists who would agree with you.
Liar.
Except the part where you said feminist sites were worse than AVfM, with its “bash a violent bitch months” and register-her and “always acquit men accused of rape” and “FTSU”.
Pants on fire.
No offense to David (you know I love you), but he’s not as important to feminism as you MRAs like to think. We managed for decades – centuries – without him, most feminists haven’t even heard of him, and we’ll continue to do fine without him when he’s gone. I think I know why you assholes are so eager to ascribe importance to male feminists, but you said you ain’t no misogynist, so I must be wrong…
“Gender feminists”. Is Christina Hoff Sommers on the BINGO cards? She ought to be.
“I know you are, but what am I?” And you still don’t understand why we’re mocking you?
Has anyone gotten sebhai a welcome package? I don’t have the link.
@Fnoicby,
So they’re extra-susceptible to Poes?
Buttercup,
Have you been vajazzling again?
I honestly had no idea who he was before I came to this site… actually, I don’t think I knew who he was for a while after I started coming here. Obviously I knew there was a Futrellian David who posted the articles, but he was just a name. Could’ve been a bunch of cats and ferrets in a David costume for all I knew!
I can’t believe anyone honestly thinks the Gynocratic Hivemind would let a man be our Grand Poobah!
Did anyone else notice the epic spelling/usage mistake Paul made about “ball faced” liars? Ball faced! I had to wipe a big mouthful of tea off my screen at that one!
From now on, I know the perfect term for MRAs with “statistics”. They’re obviously BALL FACED LIARS!!! XD