Oh dear. Some very confused dudes on the A Voice for Men Forums are angry at the Huffington Post for suggesting that Confused Cats Against Feminism might just be a parody of Women Against Feminism.
A guy calling himself Humansplaining w/ Jarred starts off the thread — titled “HuffPo tries – and fails – to politicize ‘Cats Against Feminism'” — with this little rant. (I’ve bolded some of the especially silly stuff.)
So, being that ‘Women Against Feminism’ is an internet phenomenon, through Tumblr as well as Twitter, the internet inevitably took this thread in the direction it takes EVERYTHING nowadays – cats.
If you read through all the ‘Cats Against Feminism’ memes, you’ll notice that they pretty much all revolve around, well…CATS. Go figure, huh? References to food, tuna, shedding, and biting predominate these posts. The references to ‘Feminism’ are basically incidental, since this is just piggy-backing on the viral success of ‘Women Against Feminism’. Those posting these memes never really express whether they are in favor of, or against Feminism. It’s clearly not meant to appeal to EITHER side of the issue. Rather, it’s simply a silly meme meant to produce a few chuckles for ANYONE that happens to run across them. Just like every other stupid cat meme on the internet, of which there must literally be TRILLIONS.
But HuffPo apparently sees things differently …
You know what? I think those CATS are smarter than the people at Huffpo that produced this article. THEY think that Feminism is a stupid and pointless human concept, and they wish you’d stop talking about it and fighting amongst each other, because they need you to FEED them!
Seriously HuffPo, learn to take a joke, and give the ideology a rest for 5 FUCKING SECONDS already.Because the cats are laughing at YOU now…
AVFM forum dudes, I hate to break it to you, but the cats aren’t laughing at the Huffington Post. They’re laughing at you.
Maybe I need to start up a new blog: Confused Cats Confused by Confused Cats Against Feminism.
I totally believe he has a social sciences degree. It’s from the university of assfax. He majored in social sciences with a minor in 5 = 10.
No, dearie, it’s you who didn’t convincingly argue that. You claimed it, you gotta back it up.
So what gumball machine was your “social sciences” degree from?
By the way, regarding prison rape, which I know a bit about from having been in prison for 18 months over 40 years ago: it is a terrible thing, but the point that Niall slides over is that almost all prison rapes of men are committed by other (heterosexual) men. The real problem is MALE heterosexual violence, which is committed against other men in a situation where they lack access to women. Therefore it is not in any way symmetric with rapes of women by men in the “free” society.
It is a very bad thing: some men are forced to choose between becoming some convict’s “wife” and being raped on a regular basis, often by several rapists. But — maybe I lack imagination — but I can’t figure out any way in which feminism is responsible for this outrage,.
[CN: prison rape, misogyny]
By the way, here’s something that MRAs always fail to include in their shit analyses of prison rape: the majority of male prison rapists are heterosexual. Heterosexual male prisoners rape other male inmates in order to alternatively express their sexual aggression against women. In the end, the victim is male, but the purpose of the attack is feminization. To dehumanize is to feminize, and vice versa.
Answer me this, troll…why the hell do you MRAsshats care so much about what goes on inside a body that isn’t yours? Because you had no real cause to bring that up; it’s a non-sequitur here, but you insisted on making a hoo-ha out of it. So, you got your widdle hoo-ha. Now, answer me this one question: Why are you Menz Rightzers so busy policing women’s bodies? Hmmm?
@Ally S: Absolutely. In fact, I would say that prison rape by a male homosexual inmate is extremely rare. Prison rape is a macho thing. This is something that people on the outside rarely understand, but in prison, if A rapes B, A is considered to have proved his (heterosexual) manhood, while B is regarded as a virtual woman and thereafter referred to as “she” or “her” (which makes the misogynistic element all too obvious).
As to prison rape involving women, I really don’t know anything.
Missed this earlier:
Clearly oppression only manifests itself in legal codes and state sanctions. /heavy sarcasm
And you think you’re the one who understands oppression better?
No, of course we cannot argue that. And neither, for that matter, can YOU. We can, however, argue AGAINST it, because you seem to have this idiotic notion stuck in your broken-record brain that feminism and women are somehow the cause of it all. Nope. Try again, trollsky. If men are worse off in US society, it’s because it’s ridden with capitalism (which makes everything worse for the 99% at the bottom), and because a lot of these machos are foolish enough to eat crap, smoke, and take too few health and safety precautions on top of all that. It’s not our fault if women do better than them on matters of personal responsibility; that’s on them, and if they’re not holding up their end, it’s because some privileged notions die hard. Guess that’s what comes of not getting paid the 30% Penis Surcharge, eh?
I think I’ve figured the way the troll separates “good feminists” and “radical feminists”.
So, “good feminists”* are some of those historical feminists who won women the right to vote and own property.
And since, in trollland, those were and are “all the main aims of feminism” and they are now achieved, feminism is outdated and unneeded in today society**.
Therefore every feminists today = radical feminists.
Because it’s totally radical and unreasonable for women to want any changes in society or more right then just vote / own property.
*But not too “good”. Because some undefined “disservice” done to some undefined “us”.
**And especially in European countries.
Aw, honey, it’s way too late to return to trying to convince us that you have a sense of humor.
Niall is really high, right? That’s why he’s making progressively less sense as time goes on?
Wow. Just caught up. Wow.
Is it sad that I’m just cracking up with laughter over here? Only about 3/4 of the laughing is about our dearly-beloved, humorless niall, and the other quarter is for my adorable house-sit geriatric-pup, who’s just really excited about running around the station after getting to go for a ride.
Bud, men have problems, and women have problems, but sitting in the punchbowl and yelling a bunch of false equivalencies and bad stats isn’t going to fix your problems.
There is a figurative ton of ways to help reduce suicide rates and incarceration likelihoods for young men. The problem is that there aren’t enough men willing to volunteer for most of these programs. So, get out of the punchbowl, throw your pants in the dryer, put a clean set on, and go make the world a better place.
There’s also a lot of research going into men’s health, but instead of yelling at us, why don’t you yell at evolution? I’ll help you out:
Natural selection, why don’t you care about me anymore after I’ve finished raising kids to child raising age? Why? Why do you care about keeping around old Orca grandmas but not me?!?! WHY???
Evolution probably won’t answer you, because it really doesn’t exist as a sentient, planning, calculating entity.
Have fun!
Sorry “I’m not a MRA” Niall, this article misuses sexual abuse in prison statistics the same way AVfM did in their now deleted prison rape fact sheet.
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crime-rate/
The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow OCTOBER 24, 2013 ISSUE
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/oct/24/shame-our-prisons-new-evidence/
The NYRB article that they’re referring to (without providing a link) discusses several Bureau of Justice reports and says “Allen J. Beck, the senior BJS statistician who has been the lead author on all of these studies, tells us the new findings indicate that nearly 200,000 people were sexually abused in American detention facilities in 2011″.
1) The BoJ study “define(s) sexual victimization under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, BJS uses uniform definitions that classify each sexual act by the perpetrator who carried it out (i.e., inmate or staff ) and the type of act.”
“Inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization involves sexual contact with a victim without his or her consent or with a victim who cannot consent or refuse.” [This includes “less serious victimizations” such as “intentional touching”.]
“Staff-on-inmate sexual victimization includes both consensual and nonconsensual acts perpetrated on an inmate by staff.” [This includes voyeurism, threats and verbal sexual harassment.]
Note: The government is defining sexual victimization in prisons in a way that reflects both the extreme power dynamics between inmates and staff, and how prisoners often lack the freedom to escape an abusive situation.
2) That 200,000 figure includes female victims. Whoops.
@brooked: from your second link:
All of these problems are beyond appalling. If a government body is depriving people of freedom, then it should ensure that the environment into which it forcibly places people is not actually worse than the environment from which they are taken.
And the (criminally) mentally ill should not be incarcerated in prisons. Ever. I don’t care if the mental illness started after incarceration or it was pre-existing, prison is no place for them. That also holds for people with drug addictions (some definitions of mental illness don’t include addicts, not sure if that lack of inclusion applies here or not).
Where the fuck is the MRM crying out for justice on these outcomes?
Seriously, niall? This is what you sound like to me:
“You’re all mean meanie-meanies for pointing out the inconsistencies in my logic, for not believing in my assfax, and for mocking me on a mockery site! I already told you that I’m oppressed, why can’t you just believe me and rearrange your pesky view of reality to fit mine? Feminists are somehow to blame for the actions of misogynistic men! Also, all women who say something I don’t like are feminists, and feminists are bad. Why can’t women just shut up and not be feminists? Don’t they know it’s bad? Anyway, what were we talking about? I keep forgetting what I’ve said in my previous comments. That, too, is in some way feminists’ fault, I just know it!”
I think niall really possesses the powers of Mr. Fantastic. All that reaching must require some kind of superhuman stretchy abilities.
Snurk.
Next up, we’ll probably hear how evolution made us ladies delicate and dainty and constantly in need of male protection, and dudes manly and studly and inclined to sleep around on us because SCIENCE, bitchezzzzz.
Anyone else want to venture a prediction down which blind MRA alley Niall will go next?
shorter niall:
Since he’s focusing on the U.S. now, I think he’ll be appropriating the struggles of combat veterans, and/or shouting about the draft.
Come on, guys. We’ve all posted high before. Let’s take it easy on niall.
Oh, I’m not getting on niall’s case for possibly being stoned. It’s simply an explanation for the quality of his comments here.
No, niall is actually pouting because he’s convinced that he’s *winning* by completely ignoring or derailing arguments that refute every point he’s made to support an extremely broad and, arguably, non-objective statement that he also expects us to debunk in one fell swoop.
He hasn’t once been able to explain why the criticism of his sources and just plain false statements (all made in support of the statement he wants us to debunk, I have to emphasize) are not valid using logic or a source that wasn’t later criticized. He STILL can’t give his personal definition of radical feminist, which is a comparably simple question to answer.
I’d laugh, but it actually kind of disturbs me how many people think that dropping points that aren’t true and reacting to arguments against them by subsequently ignoring the point and dropping another, or dismissing the arguer as biased, is a valid debate method. It is incredibly childish and would get you laughed straight out of the debate team.
Then again, this is the same type of person who’d react to that by convincing themselves that they’ve won and the debate team is just full of biased idiots…
tl;dr niall, don’t take your debate lessons from trolls
Not a fan of the language, but I think this image pretty accurately sums up our friend Niall.
I’ll save him the bother: Women are the reason men get drafted and sent to die at war! Helen of Troy!!! Eleventyhundredeleven!!!!1111!!!!!
There, done.
@Bina – Succint! I like it.