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.
Yup, standard poodles are big dogs – they come to mid-thigh on me (I’m 5’4″). Solid, too, though they’re not super-bulky.
fauxmy, your Tess sounds wonderful!
It’s not just the hypoallergenic coat that makes poodles so popular for crossing with other breeds as service dogs, either. They are smart.
From all I’ve heard, I don’t feel bad being a poodle now. Not THEIR fault they have a reputation for being treated as living ornaments by their owners.
@pallygirl Thank you for Joey and his water loving.
kettehserf says
yupperz. i grew up on a ranch with many kinds of dogs for various functions. we had a dachshund who was fabulous for ridding the place of vermin that was too big for the cats — she would take on any snake that got in my path and once took on a badger for me, as they were originally bred to do. also, there was a golden retriever who was rather old and just more of a pet, an Australian cattle dog (queensland heeler) for herding cattle and sable collies to keep the kids all herded up together. i have been training dogs my whole life, but the first standard poodle i got as an adult was by far the smartest, quickest thinking of them all. i read about one woman who had trained their standard to deliver her husband’s coffee to him in the morning, after she had fixed it. they are that kind off dog.
the hypoallergenic thing is an added bonus…. but does come with grooming costs. you can learn to do some or most of it yourself though. i’ve always kept mine in ‘puppy clips’ because it just makes more sense and they are not show dogs. my bro has a royal standard that is an 80 pound male royal standard, they can make excellent service dogs all on their own, and do. an 80 pound dog can pull an electric wheelchair that has no battery left while still attending to other needs of the disabled person. they are fabulous dogs.
training a standard poodle for service in berkeley, CA. this is no small, wimpy dog.
http://youtu.be/RfDh20bCSdM
“The fact that the meme can be interpreted to mean that the viewer doesn’t have the right to own the viewee is a bonus, but it’s just too damned ambiguous overall to be useful.”
I would like to disagree respectfully; I don’t think it’s too ambiguous…it’s just that there’s been scads and scads of propaganda (propaganda which serves nobody, so far as I can tell) unleashed during the last few decades against the acceptance of a fairly evident fact. “Sauce for the goose; sauce for the gander” is a good old meme, and I propose we bring it back.
@ tigtog:
Yes. Very well put.
Ok, I give up. Can someone tell me what Jesus is actually doing in that painting?
My best guess (because I don’t think someone would paint Jesus doing a “talk to the hand” to someone begging and I don’t know what painting this is) is that its a depiction of the story where Jesus was walking through town and a woman wanted to touch Jesus’s robes because she was convinced that that would bless her and heal her.
I can’t quite remember the story but I think Jesus was sorta just trying to move along, she ends up touching his robes and getting healed, people get angry that she was being rude, Jesus said something like “no, its cool, she has a lot of faith in me so its all good.”
@ quantumscale — I’m not a Christian, so take this with a grain of salt. But it looks to me like he just rose from the dead (hence the shroud he’s wearing), so my guess is that he’s raising his hand in blessing over Mary Magdelene, who is understandably awed to see him walking around.
@quantumscale
It’s Jesus and Mary Magdalene and he is not spurning or rejecting her, according to Christian doctrine she was the first person to witness his resurrection, depicted in this painting.
So a fail at many levels
i’m going to guess that the jesus pic is depicting those who found him after the resurrection — if you look close, there are wounds in his side.
mind you, i left the church long ago and it is no longer a part of my life.
Ninja’d
Yeah, and from the background he’s in a cave, so I definitely think resurrection scene.
Oh ok that makes more sense now
In conclusion Renaissance art interpretation is easier then MRA poster interpretation
It’s the moment when Mary Magdalene recognises him after he’s risen from the tomb, and he tells her not to touch him. Look at his side and you’ll see the mark of the spear thrust into his ribs.
John 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Ninja’d by everyone!
I don’t understand how anyone is attracted to that movement if all they do is dehumanize everyone. Also, if these are kind of the messages that they post on websites, does it really shock them if they don’t get custody of their kids? I’m sure all family court judges and child advocates really love to work with people who look as their children as property. Fucked up stuff is fucked up. And those memes are definitely fucked up.
You’re in good company kittehs
I think the first meme was meant to be a “clever” take on the phrase “missing the forest for the trees” (basically just that you should consider the big picture instead of getting hung up on minor details). The difference is that a tree is apart of the forest – whereas space is simply a vacuum wherein and other astrophysical phenomenon occur. The reason we look at space, at all, is because of stars and planets and so forth.
I never got the whole “child support financially cripples fathers!” thing either. Speaking as someone raised by my mother after my parent’s divorce, he still lived pretty damn well in Santa Monica whereas my mother and I had financial troubles almost constantly while in NorCal.
Er, a part anyway…
Thanks for all the comments about poodles, and special thanks to @fauxmy for the personal story and the video. My only direct experience with poodles has been a few friends having them as pets, and none had a standard.
Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III says
can i get an amen?!?
Amen.
piratejennie, true! 😀