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?
http://www.today.com/slideshow/today/unlikely-friends-33612698/adopted-otter-4/
http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dog-and-duck-friendship-paris-fb.jpg
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-10/2/17/enhanced/webdr11/anigif_enhanced-6550-1412286629-1.gif
The point of posting that video wasn’t about defending Laci though. The point was to offer up an example of an MRA claiming that male sexuality included sexual harassment and was naturally aggressive. The FeMRA (Cristal Garcia, I believe) who made the video was responding to videos that Laci made about not objectifying women and not catcalling. Cristal’s argument was that, by asking men not to do these things, Laci Green was apparently revealing her hatred of male sexuality, which apparently include objectification and harassment. ManWalk asked for examples of MRAs making those kinds of claims, and Cristal’s rant was a good one that I remembered.
http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/10.4.14-Dogs-Whose-Best-Friends-Are-Rescued-Raccoons1.jpg
Kind of grossly appropriate given the way the conversation went with this troll.
Sorry, sorry, I’ll show myself out.
Oh lard. What MRA doesn’t do that? They all think it’s their bog-given right to treat women as inferiors. And FeMRAs are daft if they think that they’re not included in that “inferior” category…just remember Ms. Wooly Bumblebee. Sooner or later, all those Special Snowflakes gotta melt. And boy, would I ever like to hear what the “Honey Badgers” say when they realize they are ALL out of the treehouse.
Not quite animal friendship, more like Furrinati domination, but still …
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xtu_DhixW40/UITM7jqladI/AAAAAAABOnU/ndz4k-lZPlU/s1600/Random+Funny+Photos+Part+286_54.jpg
BTW, that kitten/parakeet pic is full of WIN.
If Scrooge McDuck can swim in his vault, it must be full of liquid gold.
http://thewondrous.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Oddest-Animal-Couples-20.jpg
“Okay, uh, I’ll just stay here a while, then, shall I? Yup.”
D’awww. Black Beauty Kitty looks a lot like my late Java, who really loved to roll on people’s feet, too. And if you picked her up, she’d roll on your arm.
http://blog.newx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Chinese-Zodiac-Cat-and-Rat.jpg
I want to know the secret of the guy who can live on 10k a year and still travel the world. Though judging by his personality, there was some selling of souls involved.
http://www.mifancyrat.org/Graphics/CATandRat.jpg
The screencapping thing is interesting to me because it’s such a fine example of projection. These channers are used to behaving in ways that they know are reprehensible or even criminal and defending themselves only by their anonymity and by the lack of a permanent archive. They know that simply collecting what they’ve said and putting their own name on it would be disastrous for them, so they assume that everyone else is the same.
They have no conception that other people might actually stand by their words.
Ratteh gives head massage!
Was it Girl Writes What who claimed that a feminist who posted pictures of her bruised, swollen face and her chipped tooth after being punched by a man must not have been really punched by a man because a real man would’ve hurt her worse and because she’s gotten worse facial bruising from vigorous sex?
I haven’t caught up completely on this thread, but I’ve banned ManWalk for being a deliberately annoying twit. Also, because he sockpuppeted before as “Castle” (and at the time denied being a sockpuppet).
alaisvex, I’m almost positive that was GWW.
Speaking of cute, I just found these. I have unseemly amounts of love for Frozen, so…
If you have multiple cats–have you ever had then switch places on you without noticing it? Like, you look down, and you realize that a different cat is on you and you didn’t even notice? Because it just happened to me.
@Kim
He’s not bogged down by a costly woman dontcha know. It’s just him and years of downloaded pornography, living free and wild. (electricity required.)
katz, plus the only times comments get deleted here are if they’re from trolls, or (rarely) because someone’s inadvertently posted personal information, or (equally rarely) someone, usually someone new, has said something wishing real violence on misogynists, racists, using slurs, etc. It has to be pretty bad before David will delete it, and he most often puts a note in saying what he’s done. (I will delete trolls-who’re-headed-for-the-banhammer comments just to poke them, but that’s after I’ve said so, and I know David will likely restore them when he’s online.)
More adorableness (scavenged from mega-list on Gamerghazi here: http://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2q6zt2/official_brainbleach_thread_post_cutefunnyhappy/)
A whole new meaning to dogsledding:
http://i.imgur.com/Una0en1.gif
I have no words except “WOW”:
http://i.imgur.com/pT8smEV.gif
Spotteh Belleh!!!!11!!
http://i.imgur.com/S6Gxx4o.gif
King of the apartment jungle:
http://i.imgur.com/niQtUYs.gif
@kitteh
It’s terrible that you would abuse your Mod skills to torment trolls like that, it’s down right cruel! **snicker** **more snicker** **even more snicker**