In which I get an email from Women Against Feminism [CORRECTION: THE EMAIL WAS FROM A COPYCAT SITE]

@Sarah
There are a few others like that. I don’t think they’re people trolling, it seems like anti-feminist tropes. In other words, that “I don’t hate men” image is supposed to represent a feminist. If you scroll down, you can also see the picture of a woman with a low cut dress and ‘slut’ written on her chest, with the caption “stop objectifying me”. Or another one with “Gender roles are oppression. Now let me tell you how to be a real man”.
They’re just standard MRA tropes.

Taking a second look at that, I think you’re probably right, although it does kind of negate the whole thing about having a–what was it?–“positive step forward, with everyone getting a chance to share their opinions.”

On another note, I just remembered a post I read a while back at Alpha Game and I was wondering if the “women against feminism” thing might be at least partly a response to this. Quote:

One major distinction I have noticed between the Pickup Artist community and the Men’s Rights activists is that the latter tend to be of lower socio-sexual status and less aware of Game. They tend to be enthusiastic about female involvement rather than wary. So, rather than simply accepting women of sympathetic views as allies while keeping them at arms length as the Game community does, the MRAs appear to welcome them as members and even spokeswomen.

[…]

It will not take long for “advocating for the rights of men and women!” to transform into yet another form of women’s rights advocacy. It is one thing to welcome a friendly passenger to the back seat, another to hand them the keys and trust that they both know, and want to go, where you were intending to drive.

Because “women ruin everything,” in the world according to him. Whatever.

Lol, your usual failure to fact-check is showing, Dave; that’s not from the creator of Women Against Feminism and she doesn’t have a site. And, to titianblue who commented above, Janet Bloomfield is not behind Women Against Feminism. If you’d scrolled down on the page you linked to on AVFM, you could’ve read it for yourself (and heard the audio of JB saying it).

Misinformation and feminism go together like peanut butter, jelly and David Futrelle.

Also the comment above mine really needs evil laughter.

Misinformation and feminism go together like peanut butter, jelly and David Futrelle.

Everyone knows Futrelle goes better with peanut butter and chocolate.

Or mango and vodka.

Or mint chip and cookie dough.

Or coffee and cream.

Or salt and pepper.

Or thin, crispy french fries and aioli.

I should probably go eat lunch.

Oh my gosh Mr. Futrelle, you are so very very clever. Your followers must be eternally grateful for your cleverness.

@titianblue: Seriously! And isn’t JB part of AVFM. So if AVFM is incorrectly giving her credit for something for which she doesn’t deserve credit, that’s saying something.