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.
I was having my children in the 80s and they were saying that drinking during pregnancy was bad way back then. Yes, they Galt really does live in a different universe. One with neither fact checking nor spell checking.
When I was being produced (mid-70s, UK), it was still the done thing for a pregnant woman to have a glass of stout now and then once she was past the six-month mark. The iron was supposed to stop her getting anaemic. Self + siblings seem none the worse for the daily maternal Maccleson’s, but you’d be roasted over a slow fire for that now.
These days, I keep reading quotes from healthcare providers who lament the degree of paranoia regarding alcohol during pregnancy. The general consensus seems to be that No, you shouldn’t really drink because it’s not clear how much is safe, especially early on; but there’s no need to freak if you eat a bourbon chocolate by mistake.
(One woman reportedly flew into a panic on discovering that the dressing on her salad was made with [i]wine vinegar[/i]. All phoning a helpline in tears, asking if she was going to have to terminate the pregnancy… because salad. If there’s a feminist cabal devoted to encouraging pregnant women to drink alcohol, they’re doing a horrible job.)
On the Lavender Menace seal is says SWJ …but isn’t it SJW? “socal justice warrior” is that a typo?
“Also, perhaps I’m unique in this regard, but I’m fairly sure that my vagina isn’t triangular.”
You’re not the only one.
And actually, I don’t want people to live in there.
Agreeing with everyone who pointed out how… very weird his logo is. just looking at it makes me uncomfortable.
Jenny, I think your analysis is very accurate…
Unrelated, but I wanted to share this with you David. Its going on at my school right now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/texas-tech-no-means-yes-fraternity-phi-delt_n_5865606.html
Yeah, the newer incarnation of the lavender menace seal has the SJW’s reversed. Speaking of, I wonder where leocigale went to.
re: phallic buildings
You don’t need to go as far as tents to get more feminine architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crain_Communications_Building
My vagina never blew away in a storm, either.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-student-ends-trapped-giant-vagina-sculpture-n138311
it’s a sculpture and not a building, but I think we all know that THIS is what MRAs are afraid of!
After looking at JohnGalt’s site, I believe that English is not his first language. That probably accounts for the colourful spelling and grammar.
In the “Real Women” graphic, he expresses anxiety about education and financial status, and real fear of punitive authority figures. The picture I get is of a low-achieving, insecure person with parental issues, looking for a lover who will never hold him to adult standards.
What a shame he’s substituted incomprehensible meme-making for real achievement.
So, about the erectile dysfunction poster…”affect” is a verb. “Effect” is the noun. Mr. Galt, I’m sure that you think that grammar is a feminazi conspiracy (grammar nazism would go so well with feminist nazism, I’m sure), but that fragment should read “The idea that 15 years of nagging has no EFFECT on a man…”
Also, is the MC Hammer one complaining about the fact that he can’t just grope scantily women without their permission? Are we once again going to the standard MRM complaint, which is that men are oppressed because they can’t get all the dates and the sex that they might want from every woman whom they might want? I have a terrible, icky feeling that we’re going there again.
And not to beat a dead horse, but making women more employable by giving them reproductive choice IS part of women’s liberation because it makes it easier for women to get and keep jobs, which means that they can have their own funds, which means that they don’t have to get married or stay under the protection of a male relative to survive. It also means that they can leave an abusive relationship or marriage more easily because they’re not financially dependent on their abuser. Hell, it means that men are less likely to have to pay alimony in the event of a divorce. It could even mean that men could receive alimony from ex-wives! And furthermore, if John Galt is so sad about male disposability (not because of any negative effects that it would have on men, of course, but because women allegedly aren’t disposable), why is he complaining about BC supposedly making women more disposable employees? God, it’s almost like there’s no consistency at all here, and he doesn’t understand anything about feminism.
Same here! And it was an even bigger red flag if they said that they learned about romance from reading her books.
@Jenny @Master of the Boot –
I’m also fairly sure some of them think financial dependency and a lack of viable options (whether that means gainful employment or enforced child support laws) are the only way that a woman will consistently stick around (with them, anyway).
“still a better story than Atlas Shrugged” should have been a meme.
HA!
That would be perfect.
ohhhh, yeah.
Run like hell from anyone who wants to date you and likes Rand. The entitlement issues are endless. Strangely every Rand-admiring guy seems to believe that he is one of the highly productive elite, or would be if only society were strucutred properly. Much like the Dark Enlightenment types seeing themselves as feudal warlords.
@alias: re: woman-to-man alimony: Why do they seem to not acknowledge that that exists? I know two women who’re currently paying alimony to their ex husbands.
I’d imagine it’s because they would then have to acknowledge that – gasp – sometimes women support men…though I’d imagine that it’d devolve into a screed against “the disposability of men”, “women’s privilege”, and whatnot.
Re: Ayn Rand dating pointers: I can’t even imagine.
I…I…well, I thankfully never had a guy say that to me. I might have slightly lost my composure.
Gosh! It’s almost like alimony is based on how much both spouses make and how much both contributed to the marriage and how much the lower-earning spouse needs unit he or she can revamp his or her career and not on “pussy privilege”.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/24/us-divorce-alimony-men-idUSBRE9BN0AW20131224
I actually know a couple of guys who like Ann Rand and are decent people.
However, their version of like is more “this book is interesting in how it’s like a guide of how not to live life mixed with some vaguely economic like stuff” instead of the “this book explains everything and I must use it as a life guide and it shall never fail me in it’s objectivist perfection”.
Guys who worship Atlas Shrugged are troublesome, and they totally miss the point of critical literary analysis.
Guys who like Rand in the way I like Golding with his “humans all be evil and it’s only societal structure that keeps us from being evil, evil, little beasts”? They’re okay. They can redeem themselves.
Note: I do not agree with Golding. I love Lord of the Flies and adore The Inheritors, nonetheless. Darkness Visible was also good, but all of them can be really, really depressing…
@alaisvex
No fair though! Us men earn more money then women! Therefor we’re being soaked for their privilege of earning less! We pay $1.00 in alimony for every $0.77 in alimony paid by women!
What kind of just society would condone that? Huh, feminists?
ratzilla: The picture I get is of a low-achieving, insecure person with parental issues, looking for a lover who will never hold him to adult standards.
So…?
What, no-one willing to take one for the team?
@contra – Very fair points.
People who like Rand on that level don’t tend to bring it up on first dates, though.
I was dating in the DC area, so that may have skewed the pool.
Heck, there was even this one guy who did opposition research for the Republican Party…not a bad person, all in all. I mean, obviously slightly evil (opposition research o_o) but a thoughtful and kind good conversationalist…he was more an early McCain-ite, though.
Aliasvex!
That article is really, really cool.
Regarding the very first pic… Um, if she’s the boss of him, I can see how deaths in the workplace is her responsibility, and they only happen because she allows them to. If she’s not the boss of him, how come she still has all this power over the workplace?
@alais re: alimony:
Shh. Didn’t you know that challenging their narrative = misandry ?