So while poking about the manosphere today I followed a link from an obscure Men’s Rights blog over to Alex Jones’ Infowars site — specifically to the comments on a news article about a study that claims internet porn is destroying marriage.
Jones, as you may know, is essentially the king of the world’s conspiracy theorists, so naturally I expected his commenters to be pretty unhinged. What I didn’t realize is that they would also all be Men’s Rights Activists.
Well, maybe they don’t all call themselves that, but they certainly think like MRAs; several even linked to a site for Men Going Their Own Way.
Most commenters agreed that porn was a better deal than a wife; after all, as numerous wits declared, porn won’t steal half your money in a divorce.
But alongside such familiar, indeed cliché, sentiments there were also some pretty inspired mini-rants. Here’s my favorite, which received several dozen upvotes from the regulars, making it one of the most popular comments in the 373-comment thread.
But there were other comments that were nearly as, er, inspired as this one. Take this righteous comment from one of Mr. EinNietzscheStein’s biggest fans:
And who could forget this fellow’s intriguing theories about female sexuality?
“Hanoi Jane.” Hadn’t heard that in a long time. Really brings you back, doesn’t it?
@cassandrakitty:
Just as long as the “male assets” you’re hoarding is dollar bills and not sperm. Your swimming pool would be pretty gross otherwise.
…
I sincerely apologise for my gutter-brain in the previous comment. It was terrible and I should feel terrible.
Yup, that’s the one who threatened to screencap me. Shudder shudder terror terror YIPE… >snurk<
It’s so sad when they can’t simply say “lube”, eh?
Oh yeah, and here’s a song, since I had to uncrash my computer while trying to do too many things at once that are moree worthwhile than letting trolls JAQ off all over me…
ManWank, ManWank,
Fappy-wappy ManWank!
ManWank, ManWank,
Whack off somewhere else!
All of the trolls are second-tier these days.
I’m just wondering how kirby is supposed to produce ladyfluids all by himself, honestly.
MORE worthwhile, Typo Mammoth. MORE.
kirbywarp – nothing terrible about that comment, it was the truth about this pathetic little wanker.
*sighs* I know. Rage grool isn’t even a good insult. Most of us had to look up the term “grool” to even understand what he meant. If the term that you’re using is obscure and people must scurry towards a slang dictionary to understand what you mean, it’s probably not an effective insult.
Best Freudian slip ever.
I would guess that kirby is such a favourite with the Feminist High Council that they have awarded him ladyfluid producing super powers.
Also, kirby, yes the gutter brain was terrible, and you should feel terrible. Also, I should feel terrible for laughing at it so hard.
Oh oh oh, yeah, by “previous comment” I meant “previous sentence.” Sorry for the poor wording. 😀
@cassandrakitty:
O_O
*sizzle*
*vanishes in a puff of logic*
@Bina,
I swear that I meant “our.” Not sure where “her” came from. Maybe because he was threatening to screen cap Bina or Kitteh?
Not only that, but it also ridiculously presumes that rage is as sexually arousing for us as it is for our creep-ass trolls. NOPE. NOT EVEN REMOTELY.
(Also, I’m neither aroused nor angry right now, just amused at the stupidity of our latest 12-year-old and his juvenile attempts at “gotcha” and honey-badgering.)
@grumpyoldnurse:
Just gonna say, probably one of the worst superpowers ever. Utterly misandrous.
>: D
No, don’t throw them in that briar patch! They’ll be really upset by the fact that their comments made him annoyed enough that he felt the need to screencap them.
Eh, boner doesn’t always equate sexual arousal, much as vaginal fluids don’t always indicate arousal. Sometimes boners are random, and sometimes vaginal fluids just mean that you’re getting your period or ovulating or something random.
Oh, I know. It happens. I just found it amusing, because it inadvertently changed his gender to the one he hates most. Now THERE’s a fitting “punishment”!
Ah! Gotcha, Bina.
Typo mammoth!
Okay, typo elephant … “mammoth typing” seems to defy the rule about everything being on the internet.
http://media.tumblr.com/67e68fdd0a9469aea8305087e8766976/tumblr_inline_mpjmq1dtvP1qz4rgp.gif
However another universal law was upheld: in the results page of pictures of elephants, this turned up:
http://images.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cute-photo-of-the-day-500×375.jpg
In my case, it’s usually “oops, full bladder, gotta go pee”.
KITTENS!!!!
>squeee<
That two headed kitten is adorbs.
Look out behind you, furiously typing elephant! There’s an MRA with a spear sneaking up from the next cubicle!
Kittelphants!
Gotta love that a troll that seems to be all about raging has to sit here and watch our feminist man-hating devolve into squeeing over kitties.
Seriously, gotta love it!
*squees*
@ Nathan – Doubting their claims of having been with women is probably good for one as a cross-examiner. There may be a tricky side effect or two.