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.
The world according to John Galt:
1. Female bosses cause workplace accidents. Choose your boss wisely, men!
2. Women dress in sexy lingerie and ride scooters because they hate you.
3. Feminism is capitalism. Also, if you have babies, you don’t need money.
4. Nursery rhymes are historical documents.
5. Feminist organizations all have a million dollars.
6. Camping is misandry.
7. I got nothing.
8. Feminism is stockpiling nuclear weapons. Also, John Galt has been blown to smithereens because he critisized feminism once.
9. Non-feminists all have to be vegetarians now.
@Sir Bodsworth:
Oh, I was talking about the image as a whole. I was trying to play on the idea that it could easily have been a meme created by the MRA crowd. Nice job, by the way.
On another note, I’m looking through the other memes on Galt’s blog. One of them, I shit you not, has one of those “hot singles in your area” type image compilations you see in porn site ads with the text “if women are so interested in commitment, why is my inbox full of women who aren’t?”
Because… you’re subscribed to a sex site that self selects for people who don’t want a commitment? Thanks for sharing that, by the way, really needed to know more about your personal life.
So there really is someone out there stupid enough to think that porn spam is real. Wow.
Serrana
“4. Nursery rhymes are historical documents.”
They’re misandry too
“Camping is misandry”
List that next to ‘hard chairs’, whore penguins and of course Scented Effen Candles!
This one is fractally wrong.
(In case my imbedding doesn’t work – http://johngalt2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/vasalgel.jpg?w=370&h=)
frootloopsie, I think JG’s “art” boils down to “Women are misandry.”
Fruitloopsie I mean, sorry!
Is he trying to say in #7 that women’s nagging turns men gay? Then why the “Sex Machine” and the Viagra float?
Or is he trying to say that women’s nagging give men erectile dysfunction?
Why am I trying to make sense of this mess?
Bodsy, huzzah!
o_O I can’t tear my eyes away from that awful G-logo to pay attention to craptastic memes.
My mind boggles.
serrana
frootloopsie, I think JG’s “art” boils down to “Women are misandry.”
I think that goes for every other mra ‘art’ too.
serrana
Fruitloopsie I mean, sorry!
No worries
sparky
“Why am I trying to make sense of this mess?”
Because LADY BRAINZ!
Ok. WTF. There is a meme on Galt’s blog titled “realWoman.” It is white text on a black background, headed “A Real Woman” followed by a huge list descriptions like “is honest” or “spends time with her kids,” some of which are references to MRA talking points (“does not falsely accuse a man of rape or abuse”), some of which could be found in the parody poster I expected this to be (“minds her manners,” “supports her man,” “takes care of her appearance”).
The list is ended with “is able to read this without feeling offended.” So I’m guess not many woman are real, because some of the contents are pretty hideous.
The real kicker, though, is the text below the list. Are you sitting down? Go find a place to sit down, I’ll wait.
…
You good? Are you sure? Make sure you aren’t drinking any liquids when you read this next part. Trust me on this one.
…
All set? Comfy? Alright, brace yourself.
The last bit of text:
“People grow and learn together… they are not a laundry list of your requirements…”
There is no indication that the list is supposed to be an example of how not to treat women, and the last line in the list (“able to read this without feeling offended”) only reinforces the idea that the list is serious.
You are now free to rage-palm-face-desk.
Obviously nursery rhymes are misandry. What did Doctor Fell ever do to you?
Every single one of these memes has Galt’s logo plastered over it, in most cases obscuring the image. Imagine if Van Gough finished a painting, then took a brush full of red paint and scrawled his signature across the canvas.
Also, I’m pretty sure he pumps these things out faster than Kinkade pumps out Christian cottages. Find random image on shutterstock, preferably with hot female within, write snarky text barely related to the image or itself, rubber stamp gigantic-ass logo, done.
cassandrakitty
Well, there are those apartment buildings with cheap rent sections for tax bonuses. The ones that have separate entrances for the poor and the rich folk.
I’m not as good at this as Sir Bodsworth:
http://i.imgur.com/JkRi7zl.jpg
Kirbywarp
LOL!! HAHA!!
http://youtu.be/yLmd0100T9g
EPIC FAIL!
I saw these memes (I can’t find them they were on facebook) and they said that real men are not Indiana jones and other fictional characters and to stop saying that ‘real men wear pink’ “stop telling us what to do!” And stuff like that. Hypocrites. Funny how mras and others that I see online compare real people to fictional people ALOT.
“they stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast”?
WTF is that doing in my ear?
Cloudiah
I love it! I don’t even know how to make those
Do MRAs simultaneously believe that the OCP was created as an act of benevolence by men to help women achieve greater freedom, AND that it was a coldly calculated tool to extract the maximum productivity from women by keeping them at work rather than procreating?
I guess which tack you take depends on whether you think women were behind the invention of oral contraceptives. And whether or not you’re into elaborate conspiracy theories.
Here something that I think makes more sense that what John Galt has to offer.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs9/i/2006/056/7/3/Random_Stuff_Collage_by_kissmeimcute.jpg
Profound I think you’ll agree.JG could learn a lot from this.
I’m dazzled by tiko72’s image.
http://i.imgur.com/9xNevvz.jpg
Back to Galt’s actual images:
http://johngalt2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/intimacy.jpg
wat
The future of intimacy is an unused promo shot from The Human Centipede? The more you know, I guess.
By the way,I’m not having ago at people who do collage’s.
A picture of some vomit on the pavement probably makes more sense than JG memes and it’s more pleasant to look at.