Over on Reddit, a regular on the Blue Pill subreddit — devoted to mocking Red Pill ridiculousness — recently reposted the cartoon above, one of The Onion’s brilliant parodies of the terrible political cartoons that are pretty much omnipresent in every second-string newspaper in the country. I don’t think I’ve ever posted it here before — I’m not sure I ever saw it until today — so I thought I’d share it here as well.
What makes this particular cartoon extra delicious is that its “argument,” such as it is, is one that a lot of Men’s Rights Activists actually believe. Indeed, it calls to mind the cover of the revised ebook edition of Warren Farrell‘s seminal MRA manifesto The Myth of Male Power, in which a picture of a woman’s posterior is presented as if it truly is, somehow, a threat to the rights of men:
Hell, as you can see, that woman’s butt is literally shattering the word “power.” The only question in my mind is whether the butt-damage was caused by some overenthusiastic twerking, or by a particularly powerful fart.
But Farrell — who is essentially the Founding Father of the Men’s Rights movement — didn’t mean it as a joke. As he explained in the new introduction to his book, he intended the cover to highlight the power “genetic celebrities” — his term for attractive women — have over hapless horny men:
When asked about the cover in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread, Farrell doubled down:
MRA’s: when the arguments of your most famous “intellectual” are indistinguishable from a parody editorial cartoon in The Onion, it might be time to rethink your whole movement.
The main point I get out of it is that WTF thinks that Hitler was a manipulated victim of those scheming Aryans.
Ironically, allowing people to evade responsibility for their horrible behavior is exactly what his pretzel logic wherein other people manipulate them into said horrible behavior is all about. It’s a classic reversal.
Any time you see someone trying to pull one of those, watch out, that is a dangerous person who will hurt others and feel no remorse at all.
“Aryans” don’t exist, unless you’re using an old Persian word the Iranians use to refer to themselves. The people he’s talking about are MY people, the Germans.
And they didn’t manipulate Hitler into seeking power; he bullied and schemed and backroom-bargained his way into it. What the fuck does this asshole think a dictator is? It sure isn’t a benevolent protector whom anyone actually WANTS in power. I can tell you from family experience that Germans didn’t WANT Hitler, they were terrified of him (and of what would happen if anyone tried to oust him).
Also, those famous elections? Were RIGGED.
Farrell is as stupid about history as he is about biology. And everything else, too.
I’m sneering at his suggestion that abusive men are somehow also brave dudes who will physically protect women from other men. Because no abuser has ever been a coward, or hidden his abusiveness from all the world and got the “But he was such a nice guy!” shocked response from family and friends when the truth has come out, has he?
Promoting abuse and promoting incest … I wonder how many skeletons there are in his closet?
Dictatorships usually count with the support of a part of the population that believes only other people will bear the brunt of tyranny.
To protect themselves, women should seek exactly the kind of man they’re supposed to be protected from?
The abusive = protective thing reminds me of people who believe that in order to be a good guard dog, the dog must be mean. In the past people have even abused dogs in the hopes of making them into “guard dogs”. General aggression, fear biting and guarding are different behaviors and while guarding behavior can be misplaced it highly unlikely to become aggression toward the person, animal or object being protected.
This thread is getting disturbing. Needs more hypnotic butts.
http://i.imgur.com/vPxvckW.jpg
With bonus floof halo courtesy of Jade.
OPPRESSIVE KITTY BUTT!!!
http://youtu.be/gi2Mo6S60Hk
FLOOF!!!!
Welp, by my late grandpa’s estimation, it was maybe one German in five; two in five at the height of Hitler’s popularity. But he didn’t vote for the bastard the first time ’round, and didn’t know anyone else who had, either. The one-in-five estimate is how many people he knew who were, in his words, “convinced Nazis”. The rest were just ordinary Germans, ducking their heads and trying to stay out of trouble with the Gestapo. Subsequent elections were less a test of political wills than they were a show put on by bullyboys.
But yeah. The convinced ones were, indeed, the believers in Special Snow, and all.
After much searching I can’t find it, but I really thought he said that now that he has children he’s realized how incredibly misguided his incest-advocacy was.
Obviously he hasn’t given up on hypno-butts.
Found it, in david’s article on farrel’s AMA. It’s a very weaselly non-apology, but at least he’s distancing himself from his incest advocasy:
” i did this research when my research skills as a new Ph.D. were in the foreground and my raising two daughters was in the future. had i and my wife helped raise two daughters first, the intellectual interest would have evaporated. life teaches; children teach you more. “
So, he does have some limits to his horridity after all. Who knew?
I always like the arguments in defense of “patriarchy as protection racket” because it really falls apart when prodded, even a little bit.
Are men-as-a-whole hair-triggered violent fuckups from whom women need constant sheltering? Then why is it a good idea for women-as-a-whole rely on them to provide protection?
Are men good and kind deep in their souls? Then why exactly do do women-as-a-whole need protection from them?
Neh?
Yes: it’s a problem when it starts to affect him.
That’s not really a walk-back. “I wouldn’t do that same thing today” is different from “I no longer believe the things I said I believed in the past.”
ceebarks, you nailed it!