So Cosmo ran a piece by Jill Filipovic on A Voice for Men’s phony WhiteRibbon site, and, as surely as winter follows fall, the AVFM comments brigade showed up to offer their unique brand of wisdom.
Take it away, Samuel Twain:
Now, before any MRAs reading this ask how I know that Mr. Twain isn’t just some troll with nothing to do with the Men’s Rights movement or AVFM, bla bla bla, well, as you can see, Cosmo uses Facebook for its comments. And following Mr. Twain’s comment back to his Facebook profile you can see that he regularly posts MRA propaganda and AVFM memes, is a member of a Facebook group called Men’s Human Rights Movement, and, oh yeah, his friends list is filled with AVFM staffers.
So yeah, MRAs, he’s one of yours.
HUMAN RIGHTS, YO!
Anyone want some brain bleach?
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Comment under the pic: “this is possibly the most important photo i have ever taken in my life.
cats have started to brainwash humans and use them as modes of transport,”
The book blurb:
1. What is there to explain, I would have thought “Men Going Their Own Way” aka no girly cooties allowed, didn’t require much of an explanation.
2.So MGTOW don’t climb the corporate ladder. How do they earn money? Here is where Paul will explain grifting for fun and profit.
3. I would have thought many monks and abbotts, plus religious hermits and prophets, would have done this MGTOW thing a lot earlier. Excluding the ones who had kids on the side.
4. The last sentence shows it’s for whiny manbabies. If you’re already avoiding women, dudebros, then the people telling you to “man up” aren’t actually, you know, women.
I hope the humorous reviews start soon.
This is amusing of itself: http://www.donotlink.com/framed?571066
I just hate it when these clowns refuse to do some simple fact-checking of the stuff that falls out of their mouths (or, I guess, drips off their fingertips would be better phrasing here).
Sweden’s Gini coefficient — the measure of income inequality on a scale of 0.0-1.0 — is in the mid-.20s (somewhere between .24 and .27, depending on whose doing the calculating). That does represent an increase in economic inequality there over 25 years ago (when it was around .21), but Sweden’s Gini coefficient is still not only among the lowest in Europe, but among the lowest overall in the whole, wide world. That datum is out there and really easy to find.
What countries have the highest Gini coefficients (meaning, are the most income iniquitous)? According to the World Bank data tables, Honduras, South Africa and Zambia are sitting at the top with Gini coefficients above .55 (South Africa packs a whopping index of .65 as of 2011).
God, I hate, hate, hate it when people pull that kind of scheisse out of their ärsche. Gratis Ptaka gets an ‘F’ on that paper just on that bit of fallaciousness, alone.
Well said. No one rules anyone in my family. As for women marrying “up”, my super-qualified nurse, substantial paypacket, daughter is very happily, recently, married to a man who doesn’t earn as much as she does. My own husband and I sort of took turns at who earned more than whom throughout our married/ working life. It made no difference to our happiness or to our individual self respect. Now that we’re retired, those issues don’t arise.
As for non-financial issues, we both can cook (and iron and clean the loo). But it was he who taught our daughters to cook when they were very young. It was great for him, for them, for all of us.
I’m still a bit mystified about the idea that anyone would want to “rule” anyone in a marriage or other partnering relationship. And for anyone who tries to? Walk on legos forever.
gratis ptkaka, I heard this and thought of you!
@Kittehserf
They hadn’t finished that process already?
Oh, I know. Or at least they like to fantasize about it. I don’t think they’d like the reality at ALL. Same thing with their fantasy of an “ordered” patriarchal society: in their fevered fantasies they’re all top dog and kings of the domain, everyone bows down to them! But of course that’s not realistic– most of them would be in the middle, at BEST, and you don’t make it long or far in a very structured, hierarchical society by copping an attitude with your betters.
I have to say, my cat would be supremely pissed off if I tried to put her on my head, never mind take her out onto a street. That is a supremely confident cat!
Zolnier – apparently not! I guess feline ambition knows no bounds.
Can I be a straight lesbian bish ruling my man in the feminist utopian matriarchy as I force a transfer of funds from my SO who is obviously unemployed because I stole all the good jobs so I can stay at home eating bonbons in Asia? I could totally get behind that. Especially since I have a yeast allergy and bread out of existence sounds fabulous and excuses me from sammich making forever!
Puddleglum – My cats would be too, but if Maddie sat still on my head I’d end up with a squashed neck!
Also how does one pass ever more misandrist laws? I thought we made testosterone illegal for everyone except post-menopausal women already.
Wow, that one comment.
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@mildlymagnificent – I know, I thought the same thing when I read that! My parents were the same way – my mom made far more money in the beginning, and then after my dad got his business built he made more (even though the vast majority went back in to his company). There was never any power struggle and they were very much in love, during the whole 36 years until my dad passed away. Hell, even my grandparents have always had an egalitarian marriage.
These guys always think there has to be a winner and a loser, or a ruler and a subject, in dating and marriage. It’s the old fundamentalist view that the husband is the head of the household, and that the wife will always try to seize control if he isn’t strong enough. But they overlook the fact that plenty of relationships aren’t like that today, and that plenty of people in those relationships are not miserable.
PREPARE TO SQUEE
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@BritterSweet heheheee I love that deer
Dear Gratis poop or whatever your name is (I’m drunk)
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Ok, this gif is used a lot, but hey, it’s a timeless classic!
Gratis Ptaka:
Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism.
Tessa: win!
Okay, so…they’re bravely unemployed, and courageously free of human attachment. They’ve cast off all the shackles that come with love and work. No more tedious feelings of accomplishment, self-sufficiency, or intimacy. They are a rock! They are an iiiisland!
What is it, exactly, that they’re doing with their freedom that’s so daring and novel? (Spamming comment threads with rambling manifestos doesn’t count.) How do they propose to change the world by being lazy, disengaged, contemptuous, and isolated? Why is that an admirable state of being?
They make it sound like MGTOW is the next enlightened phase of human evolution, when in reality it’s just a way of saying “we can’t cope with the world, but we should still be king anyway, we hate all of your guts, please run after us and beg us to stay.”
Given that extra-uterine reproduction isn’t a thing, and parhenogenesis for dudes isn’t a thing, I wonder just how these Next Phase of Evolution dudes think they’re gonna pass on their splendid manly man genes? They couldn’t do like Krotag’s tribe, after all, because no homo!!1!eleventy!!
Son of Kronar (NSFW)
Gratis,
I looked over our prediction and it seems legit. I do have one question though: Could you elaborate on why it would be bad if the dollar stopped being the reserve currency? Because as far as I’m aware that wouldn’t actually be bad.
I’m so sad about being bread out of existence. Can’t I be rice or pasta-d out of existence instead?
Re: copypasta. I’ve seen a few of the MRA commenters I recognize from the manosphere spreading out to comment elsewhere in mainstream publications. They’ll find a news article on a domestic violence incident, or an article on the economy or technology and start tying it in to the evil tide of feminism or advocate for foreign brides or just attack some women. If there were a way to attach pictures, I have some. Some sort of MRA evangelical outreach operation, it seems like.
And about as popular at the mainstream news sites they spam as the evangelists who knock on your door while you’re eating dinner, as far as I can tell.
@Gratis Ptaka
Hey asshole, jsyk, Sweden has been run by the right, not the left, for the last 8 years. On top of that, there’s only one small socialist party on the national level left (Vänsterpartiet) as Socialdemokraterna are quite right wing these days, and have been for the last 15+ years or so. Also, if you think Swedes in general are feminists, or socialists for that matter, then you’re a moron and perhaps shouldn’t spout nonsense about countries you know nothing about.