That last post was a bit, well, grim. So I thought I’d lighten the mood with some terrible, terrible memes from A Voice for Men’s Facebook page. They’re so Men’s Human Rightsy that you can practically smell the human rights wafting off of them!
Or could that be the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity?
Either way, enjoy! For a fun game, see how many different examples of ideas that do not actually enhance human rights you can find in the memes below! For example, I found both misogyny and transphobia! See what else you can find!
This last one is kind of my favorite. Fuck you, mom! I took out the garbage last week!
It didn’t surprise me that Maru featured heavily in that vid of Furrinati squeezing into things. 😀
@oraclenine hilarious!
RE: Luzbelitx
Wait. Bonerplates?
During our ‘MRA commemorative plate’ challenge, I drew a few boners. And thanks! I like the new avatar too, though I might make the background green, just for posterity’s sake.
Well, hey, if the men are out buying cards and such for their mothers, how will they donate money to Paul Elam then?
Mothers Day is misandry! I mean, mothering is just what women do, right? So it’s silly to appreciate it, right? And any public appreciation of work that women do is pretty much the same as castrating every man who sees it.
Tell your mother to go to hell for justice today! It’s the MRA way.
These are hilarious. What are the names of these masterpieces of surreal art? I propose, from top to bottom: Entitled, Detached from Reality, Ignorant, Objectifying, Historically Inaccurate and Vengeful.
Like a short checklist for MRA personality traits. Isn’t it curious how this so-called “mens’ rights movement” can’t seem to be able to make a single meme that isn’t purely about hating women?
Although I’m against many (most?) holidays and wish a copy still existed of my long essay on the theme *Hallmark is the Root of All Evil*, I do wish they hadn’t dragged either of those Sundays in May or June into all this. It only makes those of us who have severed contact with poisonous parental units look bad.
So does anyone have thoughts on feminist charities to donate the t-shirt profits to?
Women worked during the industrial revolution I think people forget that…
Hmm, how about Refuge or Respect in the UK? I suggest these in a completely biased way, because they’ve given so much life-changing support to I and my loved ones 🙂
A staple of bigots everywhere. Of course, if all men are Nikola Tesla, we are naturally led to conclude that all men are also Pol Pot.
How about Global Fund for Women? They have high grades from charity watchdogs groups like Charity Watch and Charity Navigator, and it looks like they have a global focus and do good work.
Women worked through all of humanity’s history. Even those that got married and stayed at home. People hardly ever remember that, for some reason.
Planned Parenthood is always good.
I also had a question. I submitted a cat picture a couple of weeks ago and it hasn’t shown up yet. Does that mean it was rejected? I submitted from my phone so I also worry that it didn’t go through properly. The sign wasn’t something that I’ve seen on there yet and Dracarys is really cute so you should put her through!
sarcasm:
No, no, you clearly have not read the world history as written by Mighty Peen: Chapter 010 clearly demonstrates that all bad things men have done in history have been a woman’s fault. Those devious, emotiona females, pulling the strings of the much superior, rational menzfolk! Pol Pot’s reign would have been peaceful had he not had a female cousin and a sister, who somehow, I don’t know how, made him the terrible person he turned out. Hitler? Friendzoned by Eva Braun. If she had given the poor, troubled Nice Guy Adolf the time of day, he wouldn’t have turned into a genocidal murderer. Not to mention poor Stalin, who was manipulated into dictatorship by… um… Anastasia, probably.
And remember, if someone calls out the historically inaccurate facts we provide, we can always blame the mothers. Unless they died in childbirth, in which case… uh… feminists? Attila was made to kill teh menz in the name of feminism, right?
/sarcasm
RE: David
RAINN maybe? Planned Parenthood is also a good one.
Sadly, Cassandra, this isn’t that ridiculous. I could totally see them saying this in earnest.
I recommend some local DV shelters (especially pet-friendly ones, as they are sorely needed). Maybe even a men’s shelter, if you feel like rubbing the MRAs’ lack of activism in their faces (but I understand that’s not the priority here). Or how about the Girl Scouts? They’re inclusive, trans-friendly, and raising the next generation of gynofascists.
Right? Who led the Bread & Roses strike? Who DIED in the Triangle Shirtwaiste fire and protested for safer working conditions? Learn some goddamn labor history, MRAs.
Ten bucks says that someone, somewhere, has blamed Pol Pot’s shit on a woman.
I want this on a t-shirt. And a billboard.
Sorry for the awkward wording above. The women who died in the Triangle fire were not the ones who subsequently protested the unsafe working conditions. At least, I don’t think so. But if Valerie Solanas has taught us anything, it’s the feminists occasionally come back as zombies…
David: what about a charity that rescue sex slaves, that you can contribute to easily? Wikipedia has a list here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_combat_human_trafficking but not sure about the feminism focus.
Re cat charity, how about a local no-kill cat shelter?
I don’t have strong opinions about feminist charities, but as far as animal charities go, I’d like to put in a humble plug for NKLA, which is working to make Los Angeles a no-kill city. The reason I suggest it is because proving that no-kill works on a large scale would have a ripple effect. And euthanasia, of course, disproportionately affects cats.
Oh man, these are amazing. Where to start with them?
1st one: Wah! Patriarchy promised me a submissive house/sex slave who keeps my house in order and my 2.5 children in the suburbs, but that turned out to be a lie and that’s all the fault of the mean nasty women who didn’t turn out to be the fantasy that patriarchy painted them as. I demand women apologize for not being an unrealistic fantasy immediately!
Also, I like how every men’s right BS has to get really vague when it comes to how exactly women have “turned on” men while doing their best to imply it is something fatal and evil because demonization. It’s almost as if they are somewhat embarrassed about trying to defend “the hot girl I’m perving over who is 20 years my junior won’t be my submissive sex slave” or “wah, I don’t have iron-fisted control over my female property” on their own merits.
2nd one: They really do seem to believe that women are some sort of alien attack species that has been going around murdering men in their sleep with their razor-sharp alien incisors. It overall reminds me of the fantastical thinking behind support for “castle doctrine” and right-wing gun frenzy. Oh, all the brown people of the world want nothing more than to break into your home for the sole purpose of murdering you, but will be kind enough to make a lot of noise and alert you to their presence, allowing you to wake up, get focused, get armed, and find them with a close-range weapon they’ll wield at distance threateningly so that you’ll be justified in getting away with murder, I mean, protecting your female property, I mean, protecting your life, yeah. Also this is totes so common that it makes perfect sense for everyone to do this and for laws to protect it, cause this situation isn’t less common than a zombie outbreak.
And it really is about the same thing. I want to feel justified fantasizing about murdering or otherwise visiting cruelty to a minority group, so they are totes murdering me, so I’m justified in abuse/murder/violence.
But hey, women who think violent angry men might be violent are delusional and just using victim-stances to avoid responsibility and it’s unfair misandry, wahhhhh!
3rd one: That’s… not how social construct works. Or the meaning of “gender is a social construct”, though there are arguments to be made at the way various aspects of what is commonly lumped together as gender (gender identity, gender performance, societal interpretations of gender) confuse the topic and allow really dumb transphobic interpretations of feminist observations and…
No, let’s instead just muse on the thing every bigot pulling a “well, if you didn’t want to be oppressed, you could have just chosen to be straight/cisgender/male/white/rich/etc…” argument trips and falls over. Even if these things could be “chosen”, it wouldn’t mean that oppression would be justified. Just look at religion, which is definitely a choice and very much tied to social aspects of humanity, but most of these people wouldn’t favor having Christianity or Atheism shat upon because of religious bigotry or say that oppressed religious groups of the world (if they are ones the arguer belongs to) should just up and be the dominant religion if they don’t want to get hurt.
4th one: Man, I wish. I wish there was a safety net provided by feminism. Hell, I wish there was a robust safety net, period, in this country. And seriously, what is with the shitting on a safety net? It’s the only thing that reduces stress and panic enough to allow real economic choices, innovation, entrepreneurship, and class mobility and…
Oh right, libertarians are closet autocrats and don’t actually want a real competitive economy, they just want all the others to know their place, but still feel like a badass for “earning” the top spot in a rigged game.
5th one: Yes, the dehumanizing and destructive movement that codified a system of gender segregated work with women’s work being undervalued totally did more for women than the movement that prevented women from being murdered by their bosses, got women the right to vote, made marital rape illegal, and gave women more control over their bodies. Uh huh, sure. But hey, it looked all manly and sweaty and coal fire, so let’s have some lily-livered engineer use it for a fantasy of blue-collar masculinity.
6th one: Is it just me or are all MRA complaints about spending money. Wahhh, I don’t want to spend money on women creatures. It’s unfair to pay women creatures. Wahhh.
Okay, don’t. In fact, stop having any contact with women altogether and go to your fantasy kingdom of dudes where you only ever have to have financial and social interactions with other dudes and leave the rest of us the fuck alone, already.
I really really don’t understand why the (supposed) existence of a safety net somehow prevents women from being awesome. Also, being helped. Is the message that you can’t be awesome unless all of your successes are solely due to your own effort? ‘Cause that tells me that the only way to be awesome is to have been abandoned in the wilderness as an infant.
Oh come on, even Tarzan was rescued and raised by a clan of apes.
Thanks for the suggestions!
weirwoodtreehugger, I’ve got a bit of a backlog, to the tune of several hundred pics. I’m assuming that submissions will slow down a little at some point and I can start to catch up! I’ve been posting 25 a day; I don’t want to flood people with more than that.
Cool, I don’t mind waiting I was just hoping my kitty wasn’t rejected!