Once upon a time, you may recall, women were denied the right to vote, couldn’t own property, were prevented from having careers of their own. Well, it turns out that all of these pesky “restrictions” weren’t really restrictions at all! They were protections that men provided women out of the goodness of their hearts. Men protected women from the terrible burdens of voting and property-owning and so forth, because they just cared about women so much.
Or at least that’s what a lot of Men’s Rights Activists seem to think, judging from this highly edifying discussion in the Men’s Rights subreddit.
![rogersmith25 325 points 1 day ago As I read /r/mensrights[1] more and more, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the primary female privilege is empathy. If a woman or girl is hurt, people care. If women are kidnapped, there is international media attention. If women are killed, their deaths are highlighted. If there is a conflict between a man and a woman, then people will jump in to defend the woman. If women are under-represented in an area, people want to take action to make things "equal". If a man is hurt, it's funny. If men are kidnapped, we hear silence. If men are killed, their deaths are glossed over. If there is a conflict between a man and a woman, people will attack the man. If men are under-represented in an area, the president will call it a "victory" (as he did regarding the female majority in colleges). Basically, people are programmed to have more empathy for women than men. 200 years ago, that empathy manifested itself in keeping women safe from harm by having them stay home to raise the family rather than die on battlefields or toil in mines. It was empathy not misogyny that kept women from having careers. Present-day, work is safe in offices, so today we have campaigns for women to earn more money and yet have more "balanced" lives where they can both raise a family and earn an "equal" career and, in other words, "have it all". permalink save report give gold reply [–]sierranevadamike 82 points 23 hours ago wow... as a history major, I never looked at the "repression" of women throughout history as empathy rather than misogyny. I NEVER considered this option.. blew my mind.. thank you](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/empathy1.png?resize=567%2C594&ssl=1)
It wasn’t just sierranevadamike who was “blown away” by rogersmith25’s comment: the Men’s Rights mods were so impressed that they reposted it and pinned it as the top post in their subreddit.
Apparently every day is “Opposite Day” on the Men’s Rights subreddit.
EDIT: Here, courtesy of Cloudiah, some more pictures of girls and women protected from that big nasty world out there.
I thought we were talking about a post-apocalyptic scenario.
@katz:
Oh, right. Hmm… I guess zombie power is the only option.
That guy thinks his games are real life. That guy thinks first-person shooter games reflect Bio-Troofs. He thinks any random man picked off of the streets could perform the impossible acts depicted in action films by the likes of Rambo, Bruce Lee and Bruce Willis in real life.
That’s why some duders acts so hateful towards women gamers.
I’d like to know how many push-ups the guy who posted that shit brooked quoted upthread can do. And then I’d like to ask him why he thinks any random man is capeable of being a ninja with “raw strength combined with dexterity, self defense ability, ability to explode in controlled and agressive violence when needed to shield the innocent simultaneously.”
Then I’d like him to explain what the ever loving fuck does it mean to “…explode in controlled and agressive violence…”
Please. I mean seriously, give me a fucking break.
Oh good, I’m not the only one whose fingers were itching for a red pen.
Post-apocalyptic pop fiction, at least, has two premises:
1) What if all this horrifying shit that already happens to a good chunk of humanity every day… STARTED HAPPENING TO WHITE PEOPLE AS WELL???
2) Hollywood told me I am supposed to receive a hero’s reward just for existing, but life isn’t fair… I know! if only the shackles of society were removed, I would totally become the badass hero I was meant to be all along!
Not coincidentally, 1) is a staple of old white American doomsayers, and 2) is the core of Libertarian thought.
Oh, my kingdom for a fucking red pen.
I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to delete all of the text in a Word doc and still send it back to the originator with track changes activated. No point even trying to fix that mess, just delete it and start over.
@Vaiyt who posted:
“Hollywood told me I am supposed to receive a hero’s reward just for existing, but life isn’t fair… I know! if only the shackles of society were removed, I would totally become the badass hero I was meant to be all along!”
Yes. Jesus. As much as I like Shuan of the Dead, that’s what you’re sarcastically describing.
Otherwise known as “The Special” cliche. I’ve seen it hundreds of times. Sometimes, to innoculate myself against that shit I have to repeat these names — Buffy, Xena, Lady Jessica, Agent Scully, Cleopatra Jones.
vaiyt,
Perfectly put!
@ Cassandra who posted:
“I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to delete all of the text in a Word doc and still send it back to the originator with track changes activated. No point even trying to fix that mess, just delete it and start over.”
Absolutely. Can you imagine a world in which anything submitted to the internet would first have to go through a real life copy editor for approval?
I would want to go when it happens, if not before. I have no desire to witness, let alone survive, such a thing.
“in this leftist, Communist, culturally Marxist and politically-correct world”
I have been noticing the similarity of warped thinking in the MRA crew and the far-right crew. Nice to have it confirmed.
“Can you imagine a world in which anything submitted to the internet would first have to go through a real life copy editor for approval?”
I sure can. Have you ever been copy-edited? I have been, and I would cut off all my fingers before I would subject my internet posts to copy-editing.
If you
– turn on track changes
– do the text changes and comments first (do not accept them)
– then do the deletions (do not accept them)
You should end up with a Word document as you wanted. This works in Word 2010, YMMV with other versions. At this point I shall merely say that LaTeX is superior.
And I love the trophies, I didn’t realise that the Rick Astley one got made. That one is mine, all mine. 🙂
On the Mad Max scenario: within 6 months to 1 year all diesel and petrol will be unusable due to contamination (assuming there is any remaining). Cholera will rear its head again. People will start coming down with communicable diseases against which we currently vaccinate.
And now I present to you Shroedinger’s Idiot: an idiot will be an idiot even when in an indeterminate state for all other facets, because being an idiot is an absorbing state.
@GrumpyOldMan who posted:
“Have you ever been copy-edited? I have been, and I would cut off all my fingers before I would subject my internet posts to copy-editing.”
Yes. I have been copy edited. For 12 years as a reporter. Now I freelance copy edit and teach English and grammar. So, yeah, these duders would never have a voice in any age proceeding digital technology.
Trying to get an article published in a peer reviewed journal is the most frustrating editing process I have ever been through. Work would like me to do one a year. My PhD supervisors would like me to do at least 3 off my PhD (which is actually going to be relatively easy as no-one else is publishing in my research space).
Given the crap I see published in peer reviewed journals (sample size too small, extrapolation beyond data points, extrapolation beyond sample demographics, correlations interpretated as causal, loads of univariate statistics and no multivariate model to show which individual factors have the biggest impact on the results) it annoys me when my research is so heavily criticised by peer reviewers.
One of the worst: anonymous peer reviewer, on a mathematical study I did on the gender pay gap, asks why I hadn’t considered that women wanted to be paid less than men. Made the same “point” for ethnic minorities. I replied to the editor that I had “noted” those reviewer comments. The editor then asked me what I meant by “noted” so I replied that I had read the comments and decided they were so stereotyped and wrong that I didn’t need to make any changes to the manuscript. Editor accepted my response.
Wow.
“…why I hadn’t considered that women wanted to be paid less than men.”
In what known universe? Jesus. Deny, deny deny.
It was connected with some bullshit idea about how low paid work meant that women could work in jobs that gave them the ability to drop off kids and pick them up, ignoring:
– that it is typically the higher paid jobs that are associated with flexible work hours, not the lower paid ones
– not all bloody women in the workforce have children that they need to drop off to school and pick them up
– some men actually do the child dropping off and picking up, and I had male colleagues doing this when I wrote the article.
All employment income was annualised up to full-time work so that part-time work wasn’t a reason for pay differences.
Aaaand THAT is why nobody respects or appreciates this dude, much less wants to obey him. He’s a self-important piece of shit, basically. Ain’t nothing he could do for any woman that she can’t do for herself, and much, MUCH better, too.
pallygirl: The editor then asked me what I meant by “noted” so I replied that I had read the comments and decided they were so stereotyped and wrong that I didn’t need to make any changes to the manuscript. Editor accepted my response.
“Thank you for your comments. Rest assured we will give them the full and due consideration they deserve.”
Useful phrase that.
Wow. I’m sorry they subjected you to such grand bullshit and gender essentialism.
My colleagues couldn’t believe it either. Still, the editor should have pulled those comments, as it is always on the editor what comments go to authors.
Okay, strong & em were supposed to be used to help with increased accessibility for non-visual web users, whereas b & i were meant to create a visual clue as to the importance of certain words and phrases. (Sorry about the run-on.)
http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/content/xhtml/emphasis.php http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H49.html
If we’re talking things science-fictiony, here’s a lovely bit of schadenfreude to enjoy: Pox Day’s garbage entry to the Hugo Awards came last.
Last.
It came after No Award in the final runoff.
After No Award?
That is perfect. I didn’t know that was even possible.