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.
Numair is pretty damn adorkable but I think I prefer him in Niko incarnation instead (they are essentially the same dude I swear). And Niko doesn’t cross student-teacher boundaries, hurray!
I do feel bad for tree-man, yeah. Poor thing. At least Numair didn’t just abandon him as a human, though.
Tris. Tris is awesome. I heart Tris very much. The Circle of Magic series is lovely for kids, but when the circle opens not so much. Briar gets angry and uses plants to rip people to shreds and Tris has to deal with some awful stuff.
She’s so amazing, though. Rosethorn, too.
Sandry I never was able to connect with.
If you like teen books, I can never ever recommend Shannon Hale’s Bayern books enough. They are wonderful. The first book is a loose retelling of the fairy tell The Goose Girl (also the name of the book), but the whole series is brilliant with great characters.
I’ve never read anything of Pierce other than the Protector of the Small (huge sigh) and the Becka Cooper books. I did read the first of the Song of the Lioness books, but didn’t like it a whole lot, and the Numair/Daine really kinda puts me off reading the Immortals books.
I’ve been thinking about reading the circle books for a while, though.
The first four are definitely written for younger folks, but the circle opens books are more teen/young adult-ish. Shatterglass is my favorite, but I’m biased.
I’ll have to look into Shannon Hale!
Dawn Cook has a four book series that’s pretty enjoyable. It has dragons. Talo-Toecan (the old master who gets to be the non-stereotypical damsel in distress) is snarky and angry, and the protagonist is a stubborn young lady who happens to be awesome.
First Truth is the first one of those four.
Dawn Cook has another mini-series with terrible titles and dorky cover art. Those are also enjoyable, but not as good as the Truth series.
I started with Lords and Ladies, the twelfth in the series iirc. A friend lent it to me as a good starting place, because it was reasonably self-contained and PT had a little background note at the start.
I wouldn’t recommend starting earlier than Mort, really. I managed Light Fantastic, but Colour of Magic was just … argh, no, parodying the Fritz Leiber stuff just put me off after reading the series when it was so much more developed.
I’m reading Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown at the moment. It’s startling to read a cosy cat mystery (cosy if you ignore the Midsomer levels of gore and weirdness in the murders) and find stuff about sexism or racism being mentioned. Rather cool. Harry the protagonist is likeable, her nearly-ex is a shithead (I’m hoping he turns out to be the murderer, but probably no such luck) and the Furrinati stars of the piece, Mrs Murphy the tabby and Tee Tucker the corgi, are gorgeous. Well, Mrs M is brimfull of Bad Cattitude, but she’s still gorgeous for a little shit. 😉
The depressing thing about the Bayern books was that they changed the cover art after the third book. And rebranded all the older books to match the new one. They went from beautiful stylized artwork to generic teen book. See?
http://imgur.com/LrnDDUc
Tessa: If it’s any consolation, the YA boom has led to a lot of preexisting teen-suitable books getting rebranded to match the conventions of the genre.
It’s one of my worst fears that it will happen to me.
Gah, hard to type with cold fingers on Mobil. Trying to wait out zombies at apartment; But Yay Queen Tammy! (Diane’s my favorite)
Well, if you become a zombie, I’m pretty sure some of the math tutors are still human. You could hide behind the raven and have a decent food source for a bit.
The Learning Center is perfectly positioned to be an absolute death trap…
Turned out all right. I guess they weren’t willing to wait out there all night. I just got back home now. But thanks for the tip! 😀 If I become a zombie I will be sure to use it. 🙂
Mahahaha!
The Tiffany Aching series and The Amazing Maurice are both good ones for smaller kids to start with, too!
We’ve read the first (Wee Free Men) aloud to our older daughters 🙂
It’s a fun series and Tiffany’s a wonderful character.
Re: Discworld in general: I started with Monstrous Regiment and then backtracked through the City Watch Series.
Grumpy: I meant your adoptive family, too. What’s you think of your bio-Dad when you got to know him?
LBT – So we’re (kind of) the same generation (34 – some talking
heads & statisticians say that that’s the very leading edge of the millennials…I’m stuck somewhere between you all and the Xers, I guess).
I’m sorry about your family and I hope to see your goal come to fruition.
FWIW, we’re pretty sure that our middle daughter digs girls and our biggest concern is trying to protect her from the reactions of others (at least through elementary school).
Everyone thinks it’s adorable when a little boy or girl obviously “flirts” or has a crush on someone of the opposite gender…she mostly gets uncomfortable looks and awkward exits when she does the same with girls and women :-/
I mean, I get people being caught off guard, but you can see the look of hurt and confusion at the reactions.
I love me some Pratchett, but I am a bit concerned and conflicted about what was sort of verging on a rape joke in Men at Arms.
I don’t have the book here with me, but I can check when I get home. It was Vimes thinking about how various Watch members were partnered up and it says something like “Even corporal Nobbs had someone, although it was probably against their will”.
Am I overreacting?
It hasn’t stopped me reading and loving Pratchett. Am I a bad feminist?
I never saw that as ‘having sex with someone’ against their will. Just that he was atatched to someone.
ie Hanging round Verity Pushpram as she throws fish at him.
I could be wrong though.
It pretty well is a rape joke, saphy – I just looked it up. Best light is that Vimes is thinking about relationships or company as much as sex, but yeah, could’ve wished Pratchett hadn’t gone there.
Still love his work.
I was worried about that, Kitteh. I remember reading that line on the train and I stopped short like “woah what”.
I don’t think he could actually be an asshole, I think his cleverness just overstepped the bounds of decency: he thought of a clever way to reinterpret ‘everbody has somebody’ in a way that undermined the warmth of the original sentiment, which he usually does to excellent effect. I think he came up with clever wordplay and didn’t think hard enough about the seriousness of the joke-matter.
Pratchett’s pretty good on social issues (though I read recently that he can be a total shit to bookstore staff when he’s doing signings – what a letdown that was!). I think you’re right, he likely didn’t think of the other implications with that. It does read mainly as the whole nobody wanting to be near Nobby if they can help it, and the idea of him having a relationship (this is long before Tawneee or Verity) seems to be the main part of it, and yeah, in the sense of company, it is funny. But the description of women throwing themselves at Carrot certainly takes it into the sexual realm and is a reminder that it’s not just being stuck with Nobby at the pub that’s being talked about.
I’ve met Pratchett (briefly) in Sydney, and he did seem such a nice and sweet man.Then again it was only the once, and I have been wrong about people before.
Now Neil Gaiman, he really IS nice to everybody. I don’t think he would know how to be an asshole.
I met Pratchett at three signings over the years. First two he was lovely and chatty and funny, third … no, rather brusque. He could have been tired, I think he only got off the plane that day. But it made me sit up when I read the other day a comment by a shop assistant saying how horrible he was to everyone working there, while being charming – the Pratchett people probably think of – to the customers.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
NOT an elf. Good to know?
I read that just the other day! The comments were were the shop assistant describes PT being rotten.
I’d never thought of him as a jolly sort, let alone elfin, as some people seem to do. I wouldn’t have guessed he’s got the sort of chronic simmering anger Vimes does, but it’s obvious he does think about injustice and cruelty and stupidity, because it’s all there in the books.
Maybe it’s like with Charles Dickens? I mean, that man wrote some of the most wonderful and empathetic stories about human life and suffering and cruelty and hope, but he appears to have been something of a jerk in real life. Maybe the ones that write with the most heart also have the most fury, and it’s hard to keep that kind of anger from hurting people around you.
That’s a good point, saphy. Only thing I like about Dickens the man was that he liked kitties. I like this anecdote about a mother-and-child pair who knew how to get what they wanted:
http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2010/06/dickens-and-cats.html
I’m a lukewarm Pratchett fan – I’ve enjoyed some of his stuff but some of it has been a real effort to get through. Maybe I’ve read too much pre-Mort stuff.
I gave up on Goodkind after the book where he Defeats Communism by building a pretty sculpture after having his hard-earned wealth repeatdly stolen by the evil Welfare State in order to support Worthless Leeches.
I recently finished the Name of the wind and the main character’s love interest is portrayed pretty interestingly. It’s pretty clear that she’s off having adventures while the main character is looking for her/playing music in bars/moping but we only get to see the aftermath. I have a feeling it’s a setup for another series from her point of view.