The unquestioned king of A Voice for Men’s crew of meme-makers is the mysterious fellow known only as John Galt. Galt, whose contributions are often chosen as AVFM’s “meme of the week” and posted to AVFM’s Facebook page, is truly the meme-maker AVFM deserves — a graphic designer whose graphically challenged photoshopped masterpieces are as baffling as they are offensive.
I highlighted several of his, er, designs in my recent post on Inexplicable AVFM Memes. Today, I’d like to delve further into the photoshop disasters that fill his own Facebook page, some of them official AVFM memes and others posted under his own fake name.
But first, a little introduction to Mr. Galt, as found on his blog.
I live and work in the UK, am a physically fit man in his mid thirties currently studying Computer Science and Mathematics. … I, like most men I know have dated on and off for the past 20 years or so and from my experiences I have come to realize as, no doubt many of you have that there is a deep sickness in our society in regards to how men are treated. …
With a 50 billion dollar divorce industry, sex sold as some sort of priceless resource and victim hood sold to a nanny state as the only valid form of currency it is evident that Men must protect their independence and freedom more vigilantly than ever.
The price, for failing to see what is essentially a fairy tale lie is higher than it has ever been. That price is paid to governments and businesses who profit from the misery of destroyed families, men and women with tax rates and laws that only ever increase. It is paid to greedy women and feminists who demand one sided equality while forcing men to shoulder responsibilities with none of the inherent rights associated with
Sorry, I nodded off for a second.
These fascist lies permeate everywhere from the destruction of Masculine Roles to the ignorance of sex differences in medic
Oh fucking hell he goes on like this for several hundred more words. You can go read it if you like.
Anyway, he ends with a question:
What are you going to do about it?.
Longtime readers of this blog will no doubt notice that Mr. Galt ends his sentence with a new variation on the famous MRA two-dot ellipsis, which I think we can call the Galtian MRA Question Period.
Galt has answered his own Question Period with an ever-growing collection of terrible, terrible memes. So let’s take a look!
There’s this inexplicable homage to a 24-year-old song by MC Hammer.
And this conspiratorial take on “the pill.”
Apparently feminism was writing nursery rhymes in the early 19th century:
Hey ladies! Get on the feminist gravy train!
Apparently feminists want everyone to live in tents, which supposedly look like … vaginas?
Apparently the true cause of erectile dysfunction is … nagging?
I’m not sure what’s the most offensive thing about this one — the comparision of feminism to a nuclear weapon or Mr. Galt’s egregious typo.
![There are only [] words in this poster. And one of them is misspelled.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1512277_283830341778156_2363545253799813839_n.jpg?resize=541%2C720&ssl=1)
Honestly, I don’t think Mr. Galt needs a Men’s Rights movement to solve his problems. I think he might just need to hire a dominatrix. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’ve just scratched the surface of Mr. Galt’s graphic work. I may have to return to him in a future post.
LBT – May I pry and ask your generation? (If not, that’s OK.)
I was just wondering because fuck those people who turned on you.
I’m happy that it seems like fewer people who’re just reaching the point of coming out have to endure that (at least on the coasts), but the people who were cruel to you are shit*.
* Apologies if they’re your family and/or you still care about them.
RE: grumpyoldnurse
Well, that was just sensible on your part:)
You know, Tiny Us had a lot of dubious taste in reading material. (Piers Anthony.) But even Auel was too much for us. I remember us finding the sex weirdly off-putting, (at that point, we were wondering why sex in stories always seemed so brutal and violent) and Jondalar rather boring.
RE: proxieme
LBT – May I pry and ask your generation? (If not, that’s OK.)
It’s cool. I’m twenty-six, so I’m a millennial, I guess.
*snrk* My family, as a number of Mammoths can tell you, are very, very special people. I do not feel bad about other people insulting them at this point. I am not exactly thrilled about how some of my life has gone, but I can take some solace in knowing that I have conducted myself with as much honor and dignity as I could, under the circumstances.
That said, I hope to help create a world where nobody else has to experience what I have.
Doesn’t everyone go through at least a short Piers Anthony phase when they’re small?
Yeah, brutal, off-putting sex in Auel’s books. I had normalised it at the time, but looking back, so very many no’s.
RE: grumpyoldnurse
Yeah, but I really wish we hadn’t. Dude was our first exposure to child molestation and rape, and he depicted it as something totally normal adult men did or wanted to do. I blame him partially for helping normalize sexual abuse for us as kids.
(Ironically, our parents were fine with us reading Anthony, but not so pleased about us reading Spider Robinson, even though he deals with sex in a much more queer-friendly, poly-friendly, consensual manner.)
Yeah, I prefered Spider, too (after I found him).
But, if you grow up in a messed-up space, it’s hard to recognise it and very easy to seek out art and narratives that reinforces that. At least, that’s my excuse! My Piers Anthony phase didn’t last that long (just a couple of books), and I’m very fuzzy on the details, so my inner filter must have been working better than I give it credit for.
Yeah, Piers Anthony basically owned our tiny soul from the ages of eight to fourteen. And a lot of people surprisingly filter out the nastiness.
So, totally behind, today was a “what fresh hell is this?” kind of day where I work and I just got home after a nearly 12-hour-day, but I saw this comment:
A dear friend of mine had terrible issues with depression and self-harm when she was younger, but luckily had access to medical care and finally found a drug regimen that kept her from suicidal ideation. The rest of her teenage years and young adulthood were much better.
Then she got married, and got pregnant. Her ob/gyn told her she had to get off her meds for 9 months, and just you know “tough it out.” When she asked about the risks, he said, “any risk is too great.” She was really torn, and felt guilty and selfish for even thinking about continuing with her prescriptions. Her husband and her friends all said she should fire her ob/gyn and find a new one. So she did, and the new one said, basically, research shows that some of these kinds of meds can cause some problems, usually transitory, for the infant, but they’re rarely seriousy–and in any case, keeping YOU alive should be a priority here. She had a totally uneventful pregnancy (two actually, by now), and both her kids are healthy.
Fuck those moralizers. What if her support system had been less robust? Makes me so mad. Pregnant folks aren’t incubators.
RE: cloudiah
*shudder* Man, I managed without meds for years, but the thought of having to be off them for nine months is STILL terrifying.
Wow, cloudiah, I am so glad your friend found a decent ObGyn! “Tough it out” said the asshat who flunked his/her psych rotation. “Any risk is too great” except, of course, the risk of your friend having a relapse that she might not recover from. I wonder how many families dumbass has harmed with that attitude? Of, course, I have met perfectly rational people who insist that most (if not all) gyne’s are misogynists…
“And you and your family sound cool.”
I can assure you that my (adoptive) mother and my first wife didn’t think it was one bit cool.
@contrapangloss
Well, she’s nice. But I wish the usual professor was teaching. 🙁 She runs through the material so fast that it’s hard to keep up. She also seems kinda shy and uncertain as a teacher, so I suspect some of her speed is due to nerves. She also gives us no idea what to study. For example, last week she said we had to know all the intermediaries of the krebs cycle. Then yesterday she said we only had to know inputs and outputs, it’s importance, and where it takes place. Then today she said that we have to know inputs, outputs, where it takes place, and *some* of the “important intermediaries,” but didn’t clarify what that meant. It’s frustrating the heck out of everyone.
… Yeah. Poorly timed sabbaticals stink. When in doubt, flashcard and memorize everything?
If I had to guess the important intermediaries, I’d go with the steps that release GTP (which is almost the same as ATP, but not quite: your phys class may pretend they’re the same) and the steps that create NADH or FADH2 (both are different, and probably aren’t pretending to be the same).
… that’s just a wild guess. Most important is probably the GTP step, but they’re all kind of important because you can’t get to that step (or back to the ‘final’ product that gets the larger gain of ATP) without all the others.
Hoping that helps?
It definitely gave me a place to start, which is a lot of help. Thanks!
It’s just five weeks of lecture that I have a day to memorize. I guess it’s possible? The “Flashcards and memorize everything method might not be the best method, but It’s probably what I’m going to have to do. Ah well. =/
The figures do a better job of explaining processes than the strait text so I’m labeling flashcards with names and labels to match with diagrams.
on the upside, I’ve survived humans vs zombies for a really long time because I have too much work to participate much and none of my classes are at main campus. :p (Though I got ambushed on my way back home, but the zombie hesitated for a second before I started running, and I managed to get away.
Good plan. If her tests are anything like the favored sabbatical prof, knowing what the figures mean by heart might be 1/3 to 1/2 of the test…
Yikes! Well good to know, I kinda got the feeling that those processes would be important, I’ll keep doing the diagrams.
All this talk of fantasy books and Rand reminds me of a quote from John Rogers:
Personally, I’m incredibly glad that my childhood reading material of choice was Tamora Pierce’s work.
Tamora Pierce is generally awesome. The Numair/Daine thing still squicks me a bit. I love both of them to bits, but student/teacher should never, ever, ever, ever go anywhere else…
I wish I had read Tamora Pierce’s stuff when I was a kid. I only started reading her stuff within the last five years. The Becca Cooper books are really interesting if only to just see the precursors of the social shift from it being common-ish for women to be soldiers, towards the very chauvinistic future you see in the earlier books.
I also want more Kel.
(I’ve officially knocked the Auel books off my to-read list. Thanks!)
Yeaaaah the Daine/Numair thing is definitely problematic, as are a few other elements of her stories. (Aly/Nawat is also a pairing that rubs me the wrong way, especially after the short story they got.) But overall the themes and messages contained therein are very good things to absorb.
BUT KEL IS BEST PROTAGONIST I LOVE HER
Well, we could turn this into an awesome book rec thread!
Glen Cook is pretty good reading! I really like the Garrett PI series. Warning though, it’s pretty trope filled, and it’s first person. Unreliable narrator, all the way. He (the narrator) can also be pretty misogynistic… but it’s still good. Black Company is also pretty decent.
Mercedes Lackey (when she isn’t writing about those interactions I don’t need to think about) is also a fine author. I like her elemental master’s series: they don’t all have kick-ass female protagonists, but a lot of them do. Also, not everyone can totally be kick-ass after trauma, so having the occassional female protagonist who learns that they can get and do deserve help is sometimes a bit refreshing, especially when you know it isn’t just the author’s default “damsels in distress must be rescued” nonsense.
R.A. Salvatore I have very mixed feelings about. He’s not the best author, but I had a phase, and I still dearly love some of the characters. (Guenhwyvar, you need to come be my magical panther friend for a bit. Please?)
For a while there, he was going off on a pretty interesting tangent with Orcs starting to nation-build and “Hey, guess what! Orcs are people too!” only now he’s recanted and gone back to “You only thought orcs were not innately evil. But they’re really just innately evil. So, yeah, let’s go kill some innately evil orcs now.”
And of course, Pratchett. If you don’t know who the Death of Rats (aka Grim Squeaker) is, read Pratchett. It’s hard to figure out where to jump in, because the universe is huge and developed and eek, but if you can survive the first couple, it gets good.
Kel is awesome. Seconded so much. I gravitate to Daine just because I really wish I could turn into some critters.
Numair I really like, because reasons. But, he also grates on my nerves a lot. I mean, tree spell. I feel really sorry for that poor person who was formerly a tree. That’s got to be really, really confusing. And not fun. Yes, Tristan getting to be a sour apple tree is totally poetic, but that poor tree-person!
Terry Pratchett yesssss.
My first encounter with his books was Going Postal, and I think it’s a pretty good starting point. Sure, you’ll miss squealing over some cameos and things but overall it’s a nice stand-alone story that you shouldn’t need to read all the previous ones to enjoy.
The Colour of Magic is a little slow-paced to start out with, I find.
The Tiffany Aching series and The Amazing Maurice are both good ones for smaller kids to start with, too!