Sometimes I wonder if we’re being unfair to Men’s Rights Activists by allowing them to handle their own publicity. I mean, it’s pretty clear that they’re terrible at it. Worse than terrible, really. Terribler. Possibly the terriblest.
I mean, just this week we saw the official social media director of A Voice for Men’s conference in Detroit announcing the conference’s new venue with this:
https://twitter.com/JudgyBitch1/statuses/476822883881459712
Bloomfield now claims this was her attempt to “troll” people like you and me by tweeting what I guess she’s now saying is a thoroughly awful fake quote which for some reason she has decided to attribute to a real person. This makes so little sense by normal human standards that I find this explanation a little hard to believe — but I guess I’m just getting trolled by my own skepticism? Oh, Judgy Bitch, you got me!
https://twitter.com/JudgyBitch1/statuses/476822883881459712
Whoops! I guess I got trolled a third time!
And … oh, for a second there I thought I was going to be trolled again, but I stood firm. For now.
Anyway, all this is just a long intro for some Actual Authentic I Didn’t Make These Up Honest to Goodness Men’s Rights Memes that I discovered on the blog of someone named Francis Roy, an MRA, an AVFM fan, and a bit of a meme enthusiast. The somewhat baffling meme at the top of this post? One of his best.
Which is to say, his memes basically suck, even by meme standards.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, these are all overvalued by at least 997 words. You can find them all in the meme section of his blog, though, be warned, he also posts a lot of graphic and disturbing pictures of dead soldiers and circumcised babies and other horrible things. (Note to MRAs: a lot of feminists, like me, are also troubled by and/or opposed to circumcision. Instead of derailing every discussion of female genital mutilation and alienating potential allies, you might try taking your message to the public at large?)
Anyway, let’s get to the memes. Note: A couple are mildly NSFW.
Here we learn that divorced mothers who have custody of the children are really just keeping them in order to enjoy all that sweet-ass child support cash!
Note: custodial parents who’ve been awarded child support actually receive, on average, about $300 per month. You can almost buy an XboxOne for that! Or, you know, you can try to feed and clothe and care for a child. And pay for child care, and babysitters, and doctor’s visits, and toys, and, you know, shelter. Huh. $300 actually doesn’t sound like that much.
Frankly as a money-making proposition, “stealing me for daddy’s money” seems like kind of a bust.
But let’s just move on to this fine meme, which as far as I can figure it is some sort of attack on underwear models:
Really? Hath not an underwear model eyes? Hath not an underwear model hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick an underwear model, do they not bleed? Does blood not run down their smooth, tight abs?
Pretty sure it does. Seriously. Underwear models need to eat, too! Well, maybe not as much as I do, but come on! Stop the hate!
Oh, did I mention that Mr. Roy apparently considers himself a Man Going His Own Way?
Yeah, let’s just move on.
Lol wut
Oh, come on!
I’m not even a Christian, but, seriously?
I’m going to post two quotes here. One will be from Jesus. The other from a rather well-known Man Going His Own Way. See if you can tell the difference.
Here’s the first quote. See if you can tell if this is Jesus, or MGTOW elder Christopher in Oregon.
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Here’s the other quote:
I’m going to be blunt. Have you ever smelled a vagina? Seriously. I mean in it’s natural, unwashed state? Really stuck your nose right down there and taken a deep breath?
Once.
My G-d. The stench could have knocked a buzzard off a shit wagon at fifty paces. To this day I swear there was a cloud of flies buzzing around that portal of doom. Sometimes when riding my Harley-Beasties around the rural roads here in Oregon, I encounter dead skunks. Road kill. We have a lot of them here, and when they’ve been baking in the summer sun, you can smell them a long way off even at sixty miles per hour.
Vaginas tend to be even nastier.
SPOILER ALERT: The first quote was the one from Jesus.
Let’s see what else Mr. Roy has got.
Wait, is that one of Mr. Roy’s memes, or did I just accidentally post a pic from my extensive collection of FemDom porn?
By which I mean, yes that was one of his memes and forget what I said about that other stuff.
Ok, one more.
Yaaagh!
Sorry, I didn’t mean to spring that on you. Hopefully you weren’t eating.
But in the unlikely event that you would like to print out your own high-quality color poster of a glowering Paul Elam to hang over your bed, or wherever you hang such pictures, I’ve got some good news for you! Mr. Roy has helpfully provided a downloadable pdf version!
All of the above graphics are by Francis Roy and under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
1. Find a phrase (not required to be coherent)
2. Find a picture (any will do)
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!!!
I was eating, thank you very much!
Not anymore….
also?
is now going to be my go-to, nonsensical innuendo of the month.
Some people should *not* be cartoonized.
I also liked how he used the word ‘contents’ rather than, you know, ‘people’. Way to dehumanize everyone.
Wait, if everyone’s dehumanized… who’s left?
Wow. Just…wow.
Please let them keep representing themselves. It’s the best way to keep others from falling for their poison.
Actually, that first meme is surprisingly accurate (completely unintentionally so, of course, but still…). After all, the implication is that we’re looking at the “stars” of men’s privilege but ignoring the vast amount of space that is “not men’s privilege” (I think; possibly it’s supposed to be women’s privilege).
Of course, the thing about space is that it’s almost entirely devoid of anything at all. So it’s basically saying that “not men’s privilege” (or perhaps women’s privilege) is, in fact, nothing.
Way to not make the point you’re trying to make, bunky.
Hm. I wonder what MGTOWs think of the fact that Jesus had long theological conversations with a woman, let a woman sit at His feet like a disciple, and was good friends with three siblings, two of whom were women. Or how He refused to condemn an accused adulteress. Or how He let a woman with a bad reputation anoint Him, at a fancy meeting of all dudes, no less. Or how He appeared to women first after His resurrection.
Jesus may have remained single, but He was pretty cool with women.
I love that this dude’s depiction of “female privilege” is LITERALLY putting a woman on a pedestal.
Pedestals are horribly restrictive places to live, and you invariably fall off. I haven’t met many feminists who ache to be on the damn things; last I checked, the fucking First Wavers a century ago FOUGHT this idea!
You know, when I want to be taken seriously I don’t post memes to get peoples’ attention. Maybe I just Don’t Understand The Great Burden Of The White Man.
Anyways, I thought memes in general were terrible (well, okay I like farming, asbestos removal, and equestrian memes) , but these pretty much take the cake. Their memes are proof that they can’t even do the simplest thing right.
Also that picture of Elam was very unsettling.
Is it just me, or does the anti child support poster imply that MRA’s don’t care if their daughters are “stolen”?
David, thank you. You’re truly the gift that keeps on giving. Even by your standards, your comment on the second meme was a gem:
“But let’s just move on to this fine meme, which as far as I can figure it is some sort of attack on underwear models:”
That’s as far as you can figure it? Why am I not surprised? I’m about to do a blog post linking to this one, and I’ll then put up a live RSS link on my website to your latest 10 posts, so visitors to J4MB can see what male feminists (and their poodles) look like.
Have a nice day.
Mike Buchanan
http://j4mb.org.uk
I’ drinking tea and smoking pot.
I might have nightmares about Paul Elam crawling out of the poster in my bedroom. But then again, I there’s always beer:
I thought male feminists were the poodles.
*scratchs head*
Mike, please enlighten us, what on earth is he getting at it in that meme?
I kind of agreed with the underwear one, we aren’t entitled to anything strictly because of our gender.
But then I thought about it. We are ALL entitled to security, regardless of our gender. We’re ALL entitled to happiness, just not at the expense of others. Same with sex, as long as we’re talking masturbation. Money, I think we all should be entitled to as well, at least enough to stay out of poverty. (I’m increasingly sold on the idea of Guaranteed Income).
But of course, the whole point of the MRA is to confuse rights with privileges, so they can claim the privileges they fight for are “rights” and the rights feminists fight for are “privileges”.
Mike, please enlighten us. What on earth is that meme supposed to mean?
My interpretation of the first poster is that it’s saying, “Yes, men have a vast amount of privilege, but there’s even a greater amount of privilege that they could have but don’t.” The image itself calls one to mind; Men aren’t allowed to travel faster than the speed of light, and all the stars in the picture have been cruelly placed out of their reach.
I think “stealing me for Daddy’s money” is an anti-kidnapping PSA. I’d change “hurts me too” to “hurts Daddy and/or Mommy too”. Obviously the primary victim in kidnappings is the victim. That’s very nearly a tautology.
I’m stumped by Lawnmower Lad, though. Is he gay? Or does he just want to finish his chores before he goes out for malteds? Or maybe he and the girl have a backstory we’re not aware of, and he doesn’t want to talk to her? Either way, he needs to open his eyes and look forwards before he slips and cuts his foot off.
These are some of my favorite posts. They’re like sexist zen koans.
Actually, the more I think about the “stealing children” one, the more creeped out I am. I think I mentioned in a different post that one of my neighbors here, his wife actually DID swindle him out of a huge chunk of child support money. She also refuses to take care of the kids and tried to get one of them removed from school. (Thankfully, dude has been able to keep the kids at his house, because. Uh. Did I mention there’s also molestation going on?)
The thing is, she didn’t do this out of “female privilege.” She did this because she’s a TERRIBLE PERSON. They exist. Everything I’ve heard about this woman is that she’s a financially and verbally abusive parent and spouse. But it wasn’t female privilege that got her there, it was her abusive behavior!
RE: Mike Buchanan
You really, REALLY like adding the parenthetical expression (and their poodles), don’t you? Seriously, you do it every time. Do poodles require parentheses all their own? Am I truly that astounding an occurrence?
I’m amused by the mgtow delusion that women are begging to date them.
I’m also amused that the leader of a small political party spends hours every day in comment sections in a sad attempt to plug his website.
You have to wonder why people would be so upset that anyone would want their rights protected, be they female or male.
If you’re upset that anyone stands up for themselves then that’s just you admitting you want to violate their rights.
That underwear ad is pretty transphobic. Privilege is determined by genitalia shape? Yeah…no.
Hey Mike, ever going to answer that question?
I choose to interpret the underwear one as referring to their abdomens. “The contents of your intestines don’t entitle you to special treatment” as an attack on people with food allergies.
On the underwear pic, I thought approvingly “That’s right! Having once been granted access to my vagina does not entitle you to sex (continued access to my vagina), security (of a long-term relationship), money (I like to manage mine myself, not let guys cadge it), or happiness”. If your happiness can only be found in my panties, then you might want to re-think the state of your soul. Convincing yourself that your happiness depends on another person granting you sexual favours is a fool’s road.
Not sure what the guy’s underwear pic was about, but hey, I believe in equal rights for men and women, so I’m perfectly fine with it. What I can’t figure out is how this supports the MRA world view. Are the misters just playing cadavres exquis to produce these things?