This is a picture of A Voice for Men’s new commemorative coin. No, really, they have a commemorative coin. It was designed by Peter Vinczer, father of A Voice for Men’s Attila Vinczer, possibly — I suspect — with the help of Judy Chicago. The coins cost $58.88, and will be issued in a first edition of 10,000.
In the comments to AVFM’s announcement, six people have proudly announced that they’ve purchased a coin. So get yours quickly, because there are only 9,994 left before the first edition runs out!
The only real question is what exactly is being depicted on the coin:
Is it:
1) An otter in a manhole
2) A man levitating a carrot over a milkshake
3) A vagina
4) A vagina
5) Come on, it’s obviously a vagina
ANSWER: I have no fucking clue. Seriously, I’ve been staring at this for like ten minutes and I have no idea what on earth this could be. What is the round thing? Why is there a tiny hand? If that thing above the circle thing is a raindrop or a teardrop or whatever, why is it upside-down? Why would AVFM issue a goddamn commemorative coin in the first place.
I do know one thing, though: If you can afford to waste $$58.88 on this piece of crap, you are not oppressed in any way. And you should probably have your right to vote stripped from you.
Just kidding about that last bit. You should still be allowed to vote even if you buy vagina coins from a dude named Attila.
Ally S – You are COMPLETELY WRONG, but I am not going to try to talk to you because you’ve mae up your mind to be wrong and closed off to reasonable discussion.
Shut up, Woody.
@Woody
You fucking liar.
I like the weeping butthole idea, too.
And I don’t think “Dr. T” is much of a therapist, personally. She has the degree, but her approach is anything but professional.
I’ve got it! The teardrop shaped thing is like eyedrops, but for your butt. The true secret of the red pill is that it’s a cure for chronic constipation, thus taking it will improve your mood and overall outlook on life.
(The whole hating women thing is an unfortunate side-effect, but hey, at least you can poop.)
And you know, Woody, perhaps it isn’t the case that I’ve just made up my mind to be wrong and closed off to reasonable discussion, but rather it is the case that as someone who has been emotionally abused, I can tell when someone is being a abuse apologist piece of shit who literally denies my experiences. So yes, you shut the fuck up, and let people who actually understand abuse talk instead. Thank you for your courtesy.
I do think it’s probably supposed to be a pond ripple, which would have already been a lackluster cliche even if they had managed to do it right. But how do you muck up such a widely-used image so badly? Did they manage not to look at any of the villion pond ripple stock images that get plastered on posters and the covers of inspirational books and everywhere else?
I’m still not sure what Creepy Hand is doing there in any of these scenarios.
@cassandrakitty–
Hand=Anal seepage collector? Casting a magical butt-leakage spell? Benevolent leader approving of rectal dribble? Inquiring minds want to know!
OT, but someone is blasting Hey Soul Sister by Train outside of the apartment, and it’s already making my morning worse. I hate that song with a burning passion.
Instead of dropping the drop from the eye-dropper like a normal person would, Creepy Hand decided to chuck it in the general direction it’s intended to go, because these are MRAs and they fail at everything?
Oh, that Train song is, well, a train wreck.
@cassandrakitty–
They deal with everything the same way they deal with men’s issues–which is to say, sloppily or not at all.
Also, your comment earlier about adding “drawing hands” to the list of things MRAs can’t do had me and my fiancé literally LOLing for upwards of ten minutes. Thank you for that. It was a hearty and good laugh.
Creepy hand is reaching out to snatch donations that emerge from the cesspool of misogyny.
If the hand were over the, erm, aperture, it could be dropping something into the pond…but it isn’t.
The weird thing is that Peter Vinczer really is an artisan jeweler, which makes me wonder whether he just made a coin version of something his son scribbled on graph paper or something.
I am wondering how a pro came up with something so clumsy looking. Even the way the text is placed looks awkward.
It’s definitely a stack of pancakes with swirls of blueberry syrup. The disembodied hand belongs to an evil feminist chef who is trying to ruin the breakfast dish by mixing in an upside down drop of maple syrup (or poison?). Proof that again, the females ruin everything. I guess a “commemorative coin” makes as much sense as anything these clowns do.
I think the text would have been vastly improved if they had chosen Comic Sans as the font.
What they really need is a font that symbolizes the ye olde days from which their ideas derive, as well as their longing to return to the social mores of that time. The way the drop is frozen in midair symbolizes their inability to get over their acrimonious divorces and move on with their lives.
Creepy Hand symbolizes their ongoing attempts to grab the butts of their ex-wives any time they have the opportunity to do so.
Erin Pizzey said you are not abused if you don’t fear for your life. Considering that most abuse men suffer tends to be psychological abuse or physical abuse that isn’t sustained and life threatening I’m not sure why you guys are so eager to defend her. I guess being a misogynist is more important than being compassionate towards men?
Or their wistful desire to grab the butts of the teenage girls who they see misandering at the mall, which cruel, cruel feminism is preventing them from doing, thus the tragic depiction of Creepy Hand as floating helplessly in midair, unable to make contact with the butt of salvation. Someone should write a (nother) post about that.
Woody, please look back a couple of threads to the discussion of AVfM’s financial structure. Hint: there is none.
GAAP is misandry!
A single tear falls,
Into my heartless pizza.
The Hand of Man looms!
I bet Woody has a shrine to Paul Elam. The coin will fit in so well.