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.
Yes, their abuse of the English language is something else. They don’t realize that this:
“Kind Of Looks Like A Vagina Doesn’t It?”… should be written, “Kind of looks like a vagina, doesn’t it?”
Oh well, some people never learn the basics.
I wonder if he sends these posters to women who ignore or reject him on dating sites.
Bravo, kittehserf. Ditto what Cassandra and Bina said.
Also, perhaps I’m unique in this regard, but I’m fairly sure that my vagina isn’t triangular.
So, they resent women for not being fiscally dependent on them and holding down jobs of their own and they resent having to take care of those lazy, non-working, Bon Bon eating women? Am I getting this right?
It’s apparently okay for them to give women a laundry list of things they should be doing but resent being told how to be men?
Okay, I looked at that list and what I got out of that is they want June Cleaver.
Most inept neg ever. But yeah, I bet he does.
I don’t know what shape my vagina is, but last time I checked my labia, their general outline was rather oval.
They want women to be grateful for being treated like second class citizens, as far as I can tell.
He does it to all the women in his life who haven’t lived up to his strange expectation.
*type type type type type*
“Honey, come down for dinner!”
“NOT NOW, MOM! I’m busy!”
*step step step*
“Now honey, you can play with your computer later.” *creak* “Oh my God! What are you doing?”
“GAH! Nothing! Go away mom!”
“What are those women doing on your screen? What are they wearing?”
“Go away, mom, I’m doing important activism!”
“Whaa?”
“Moooom, I need to point out the evils of feeeminism by making insightful memes to put on the innterneet!”
“Oh, is that what you’re doing?”
“YES, Mom! GOD! I need to show those evil feminists how evil their worldview is by making artistic images that can be easily shared which concisely prove how twisted their beliefs are!”
“And you need half-naked models for this?”
“Duh!”
“Ok, dear, well, whatever you’re really doing, please know you can talk to me or your father about anything. Ok?”
“Ok mom.”
“Now, please come down for dinner soon, you don’t want it to get cold.”
“Yes mom.”
“And remember, you can talk to us about anything, ok?”
“Go AWAY, Mom!”
“Alright dear.” *close*
*mutter mutter mutter* “I’ll show her. This next one will point out how hypocritical it is for moms to butt in to MY business.”
*type type type type type type*
kirbywarp, you’re on a roll.
If anyone needs a reminder that people with progressive politics can often be shitheels…
I miss Woody Guthrie.
OMG irby, you mean this guy’s really Pell?
TEH HORROR
“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.”
Ayn Rand was guilty of many sins, but sometimes I think the worst is the way she inspired so many screeds that are crimes against English prose.
Including arguing that indigenous americans should be forced out of the country because they wasted their time here being “savages.”
Dog, what a terrible person she was, on so many levels.
By all rights Ayn Rand should have faded into the obscurity of history. Literally the only reason she’s still brought up is because her “philosophy” appeals to the rich and powerful. “Hey, powerful people! Don’t you hate it when others think you should be responsible and altruistic and use your wealth for the greater good? Well, I’m totes a philosopher, and I say doing whatever you want is the most moral thing!”
*everyone cheers, and a bald eagle sheds a single tear while on the shoulder of an ex marine saluting the American flag*
How is she still a thing?
Basically Rand should be remembered for writing the most spectacular hissy fit (The Fountainhead) and the most spectacular sulk (Atlas Shrugged) in the history of the novel in the most spectacularly awful prose.
A lot of these images (juxtaposed with his self-description) scream aggrieved entitlement. Brackets inferred, here’s what I got:
I AM IN MY 30s AND CURRENTLY SEEKING A BACHELOR’S DEGREE. WOMEN [have the degree I’m seeking and also] HAVE SAFER AND BETTER-PAYING JOBS THAN I DO. THIS IS OPPRESSION. WOMEN IN MY JOBS ARE FAKERS WITHOUT TALENT AND SHOULD BE TAKING CARE OF ME. MEN LIKE ME DESERVE THEIR JOBS [and scholarships and performance-enhancing contraceptives]. FEMINAZIS STOLE OUR ICE CREAM.
The fact that he calls himself John Galt…well, “enhances” that image.
That all being said, and even putting how poorly made and silly most of these images are…that pill one is a level of misogyny you just don’t see that often. (The pill was designed to make women just as employable as men and had nothing to do with sex! AND [even if that were true] THAT’S A BAD THING. IT’S NOT FAIR)
I think the pill one was more of a “Feminists are sheeple for thinking that BCP were for equal rights. If feminists were truly for rights, they’d reject HBCP as a tool of the establishment to opress them and stay home to make my sandwich instead.”
FREEDOM IS OPPRESSION, AS IS BEING ABLE TO GET A JOB
Dude’s sailed right past regular misogyny and into newspeak.
(Yes, I realize that he’d have no idea what I’m talking about, since he doesn’t read books unless they were written by Saint Rand.)
@Master of the Boot –
I think it’s because despite their complaints about having to pay for women, they need for that to be true. Women competent enough to be bosses or equals in the workplace inherently threaten their idea that they’re superior and women are barely children in comparison. In order to survive, places like AVFM need the resentment of more than just men who hate paying child support or who feel like they’ve been cheated out of their kids with loopholes (like that father in Liar, Liar). They also need the resentment of men who hate having women enter their field because it will lower the prestige and/or pay rate, or who hate having a woman outperform them in the workplace. They need to feel like a) they’re actually superior and women really are too inferior to do their job as well and for the same pay rate, and also b) that they’re actually oppressed for their very superiority by a corrupt, lazy potion of humanity, in this case women, that wants to live off their hard work for nothing (a very Ayn Randian idea).
Zero Wing makes more sense than these whatever-they-ares. I’m not kidding.
“(Yes, I realize that he’d have no idea what I’m talking about, since he doesn’t read books unless they were written by Saint Rand.)”
It’s kind of bizarre – a foaming woman-hater and antifeminist who idolises a woman that never would have gotten a university education if it weren’t for the feminist movement.
“still a better story than Atlas Shrugged” should have been a meme.
And communism! After all, it was the dreaded Reds that opened up universities for women in Russia.