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From time to time I like to check in on the Facebook page for A Voice for Men, to see how that eminent men’s human rights organization’s program to advance the human man rights of human men through badly designed and even more poorly conceived graphic “memes” is going.
Well, I can report that this program is going, and going, and going, a bit like a famous battery-powered bunny.
Looking through them today, I couldn’t help but notice the weird sexual undertones — and overtones — of many of the memes, and realized that, while none of the memes tell us much about the world, they do, in an altogehter accidental way, offer some pretty interesting insights into the ids of those making and “liking” them on Facebook.
You don’t have to be a trained psychoanalyst to see the not-very-well-hidden straight male sexual insecurities that lie behind a large number of AVFM’s memes — both the ones they create themselves and the others that seem to have arrived on the AVFM page after being forwarded via email from someone’s cranky misogynistic uncle. Let’s take a look at some of them.
1) AVFMers have apparently convinced themselves that the history of mankind is the story of nice guys being nice to snooty women who won’t date them.
2) The straight men who make up the bulk of AVFM’s audience are pretty much terrified of women.
3) A lot of these guys seem to really enjoy fantasizing about women being forced into crappy jobs and/or sex work.
4) One of AVFM’s meme makers, the fellow who goes by the name of “John Galt,” has trouble distinguishing between the real world and certain (perhaps unacknowledged) sexual fetishes he appears to be a little obsessed with.
5) Straight cis male AVFMers hate fat women who don’t please their boners, and are angry at feminists for convincing at least some fat women not to hate themselves.
6) These AVFMers evidently prefer women who are very young, very thin, and photoshopped into anatomically implausible proportions and positions. But they simultaneously hate these women for giving them boners.
8) AVFMers really, really hate male feminists — and pretty much every man who doesn’t hate and fear women like they dO — and not-very-subtly project their own sexual insecurities onto them.
9) They also really, really, really hate me.
But I think that’s probably because they’re jealous that I have that second pair of arms.
@ Puddleglum – I don’t think they actually believe that. Like Luzbelitx says, they’re at least partly mocking the idea of women in STEM. At the same time, they’re mocking the very idea of hostile work environment.
So feminists are oppressive to fat cats, jail is… apparently an identity, the cats are in a David suit in a worm suit, and… women get scared away from college because shirts?
I *am* jealous of the extra arms, though.
And I feel sorry for that poor kitty. Not because it’s a fat kitty, but because it is at the vet, near all the carriers, and being carried. Cat hell.
Lol, I didn’t even realize the eyes were missing till you pointed this out. Now I keep asking myself, where did the eyes go? How did he know there was a woman in need of puddle chivalry? Does he have radar? Tingly puddle senses?
True, I think it is that simple.
Upon second inspection, I think I also see a layer of “I’m not sexist, you’re a whore!“
A feminist poked out that man’s eyes for daring to look upon her robes.
(This would be funnier if you’d been around for our old friend of the purple rage prose.)
Ooh, TMBG? I keep thinking of “luck ball and chain” when I think of MRAs
Sigh… that album came out in 1990… the more things change…
Sounds about right. My degree is in palaeontology but I currently design websites instead – yeah, turns out there aren’t many jobs for palaeontologists in the Australian outback. *sighs* =P
(As a side note, how many Misandry Points do I get for going from one STEM field to another STEM field?)
If they are trying to redefine MGTOW to mean becoming PUAs won’t they be creating some conflict in the ranks and risl splitter and all that?
Also too and besides, let’s do lunch.
It certainly is an epically ridiculous tale…and thus, eminently worthy of their stoopidz.
In that sense, yes. But if anyone seriously believes that that really happened, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll sell them for a song.
Hammer, nail, head.
They also seem to ASSume that street prostitution is far more lucrative than it actually is, and that MIT tuition is as low as that of the diploma mills that granted them their respective fine-art, history and gender-studies degrees.
Not to mention that the fat cat in the picture did not get that way out of cruelty, but out of ignorance and misplaced kindness. The owners fed that poor kitty all the wrong things, and didn’t have the heart to say no, or the time and energy to exercise it regularly. It’s an all-too-common situation with obese pets, unfortunately.
These idiots, they cannot even be bothered to get the backstory right, much less concoct a meme worth spreading. Is it any wonder no woman wants them? They’re just all such lazy-minded buffoons.
@Falconer
Hahaha-No. See, paying me back for what he stole would mean that he was giving me money out of “financial obligation,” and that would be wrong of him to do as a MGTOW. Paying back a debt was, to him, on par with paying child support, which was also a bad thing to do because spermthief harpies stealing $moneyz, I guess. This would also be why he got in trouble with credit cards, utilities, and rent payments.
The whole mindset is pretty fecking convoluted & makes absolutely zero sense to any non-MGTOW human being.
Once again mens rights couldn’t make a decent meme to save their life.
I can’t believe how they are so out of touch of reality. it’s like are they in some kind of dimension? Is this some contest on who could make the most horrible, stupid and confusing memes possible?
It’s nice to know that they have better things to do than actually help men and boys /s
stardustfalling
I’m so sorry that you had to go through that and I’m glad you got away from him. ::hugs::
What mgtow think they are doing
http://youtu.be/xPLtD6N9WO0
What they are really doing
http://youtu.be/o8JcIAV5wms
@Kate: Here’s two blasts from the past in one convenient package!
http://youtu.be/vsQrKZcYtqg
Shoulda took the money, stupid duck.
OMG, that is awful! All the hugs and kitties to you for that.
And yes, your definition of a MGTOW sounds a lot more accurate than theirs.
cassandrakitty
“Number two’s message is that men don’t have eyes. Feminists stole them, obviously.”
I have heard from shrek that they’re good for martinis and toast. Need those male tears of course.
@davidfutrelle
I made a contribution do I get a free autographed copy of your famous book “No Mum I’m Busy” LOL
I also wonder at the message of #6 the fat cat and the fat woman, are they saying that Patriarchy was keeping women THIN really? How the hell does that work?
I would also love an autographed picture of your real worm likeness to be framed.
@Falconer: I think that the arches are actually structural ribbing from Air Force One, and the crocodilian reptile has The Football strapped to it.
Can we all chip in a dollar and hire John Galt a dominatrix? I think it would improve both his and our lives.
By starving them, running them off their feet with endless housework, forcing them to churn out babies (no birth control for these super-spermy machos!) and stuffing them into stupid corsetry. Of course.
davidknewton
They’d (you’d) have to be defective, wouldn’t they (you).
I suspect the dimwits would try to cover their seething envy by casting aspersions like mangina! and beta! All of which is completely futile because happy men who are happily living with women who are also happy don’t have any interest in learning their lingo, let alone agreeing with their attitudes.
@friday jones:
Okay, so what’s Ronald McDonald doing in the background if it’s not Golden Arches?
@davidnewton @mildlymagnificent
I follow a youtube vlogger by the name abaddon5 and he was in an argument/debate with these mra assholes (he calls them Male Supremacists) and the first thing they did was claim his wife was a wh#re who rode the C*ck carrousel before she settled for him as a beta. So you are right that is LITERALLY the argument this asshats make. They try to delegitimize your relationship if it stands in stark contrast to their bullshit.
Ok, this thread wins all the music awards. TMBG ‘Istanbul’ and the Kevin Kline Pirates of Penzance.
Firing an RPG, obviously! 😀
You know, I didn’t think worms had arms… are those from the cats and/or ferrets, sticking out of the worm suit?
“A man who understands that sexual attraction and intimacy are inseparable from financial obligation” – BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(That was Mr K laughing, too, btw.)
Lincoln riding a bear made me nearly spit my museli on the keyboard. Teddy Roosevelt and Vladimir Putin ain’t got nothin’ on this dude!
On the Raleigh thing (everyone ninjaed me on that!) – if it happened, it may well have been a leather cloak anyway, so not irreparable. But at any rate, it’s the sort of wildly extravagant gesture the Queen’s favourites were pretty much expected to make, both because of the culture of Elizabeth’s court and because they were playing for serious political power and wealth. It makes sense in the context where it (maybe) happened.