Well, fellow members of the feminist sector, it’s been fun. But we’re all doomed, as this helpful infographic, prepared by Men’s Rights Edmonton, makes clear:
Ok, maybe “clear” isn’t the word I was looking for. Also, I left out the first part of the diagram. Does this make it any clearer?
Hmm. Is it too small? Here’s the whole thing, full sized.
That didn’t help either?
All right, then let this young fellow in the hippie costume with the obviously fake beard and the, uh, big knife, explain it in this video.
I’m being told that this is not actually someone in a hippie costume with a fake beard, but Nick Reading of Men’s Rights Edmonton, and this is just how he looks now. The knife thing is a little creepy but I suppose it’s still better than when he looked like this:
And, no, I didn’t draw that or project it onto your computer screen direct from my nightmares; that’s from a pamphlet Reading put together to promote his joke candidacy for Edmonton City Council as a member of the Patriarchy Party.
I’m not sure these MRAs understand public relations quite as well as they think they do.
H/T — r/GamerGhazi on Reddit
Alan: I think my comment gave the impression that I am part of the first generation on the net. I am not. I didn’t get Internet until 2003. Sorry for any confusion.
sunnysombrera: No worries. Oh, and I loved the dial-up sound too (Erk uh erk kshhhhhhh urrrr kshhhhhh beep beep ah uh eeh < my best onomatopoeia effort)
I remember when you set up the internet via AOL CDs that would come in the mail. So cute.
hahahaha Alan, your onomatopoeia of the dial-up modem is precious! ah, the memories, I’m so old.
Well, I suppose we can just do what racists do, and be super feminist and then refuse to acknowledge how feminist we are. That’ll work out alright.
Oh, I remember that sound!
Sorry to be off topic but you have to see this
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/24/wikipedia-declares-war-on-women-gives-anti-feminist-males-control-over-gender-and-sexuality-entries/
@proxieme
I totally recommend Quarriors! for game night: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91536/quarriors
Sooo many dice, so many monsters and spells, mmmm.
Whelp, I did Google the topic of Dan’s article, and sure ‘nough, more articles came up:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy
I think that this definitely needs more looking into. It’s a very discouraging thing to be reading.
“‘The Bavarian Illuminati, with the assistance of the Unicorn Feminists and the Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow, are going to attack to control the Boy Sprouts.’
‘The Trekkies are going to contribute to defense!’”
I’d say that I think guys like this have seen The Warriors too many times if I thought anybody still knew what The Warriors is, but I don’t. 300 falls within the pop-cult purview of the modern day but The Warriors does not. Too bad. Stumped again, drattidy drat.
Oh God. If this really goes through Wikipedia will become Ministry of Truth, Gamergate style.
And I feel sorry for all their targets such as Wu and Sarkeesian. Their entries will be destroyed with obvious bias and no doubt many uses of gendered slurs. Still, there are plenty of other good people out there to fight the good fight and fix terrible edits. Only five have been barred.
Let the editing wars begin. :/
The cringe worthy ads for Cordell and Cordell are still playing here so I’d say the answer to The designer could have replaced one with “father’s rights activists”. Or are they not a presence any more? is unfortunately not.
I meant to say that father’s rights activists unfortunately still have a presence.
I first became involved with the internet when the only domains were .edu and .mil
@ bekabot – “The Warriors” had a big resurgence around 2006 or so. There was even a video game that apparently did pretty well. So while it may have faded a bit, it’s not completely lost in the Seventies.
How disappointing on that Wikipedia thing after Jimmy Wales smacked down the Gamergaters so nicely.
Having just looked Cordell and Cordell up, I’m left shaking my head. It reminds me that a 1993 television film, Men Don’t Tell, seems to be having a surge of interest in it lately by fathers rights types and others who think women are domestic abusers as much as men are; it doesn’t help that the studio never released the film to home release, giving rise to rumors of a feminist conspiracy against it. The TV Tropes article rather creeps me out.
Yes, definitely. I got the sense that if I did have a chart ready that person would have dismissed it too. It was clear he only cared about his own comfort and was loathe to have anything intrude upon it. They all were like that. A problem doesn’t exist until it effects them directly.
Well, there goes any possibility of Wikipedia EVER getting a dime from me.
Wikipedia’s mission is weird in that it wants to be an online repository of knowledge but has an intense bias against “original research”. So if a Nobel Prize-winning biologist wants to write an article about viral pathology, that’s not allowed. But if a someone wants to cite an anti-vaccination site, that’s OK because the information is out there.
Sure, there are editors on Wikipedia but where are their credentials? Who decided that THEY are competent to judge the worthiness of an article? Because they can use Google?
And surprise, surprise, a body that is (most likely) largely comprised of men don’t think sexism is a real problem. I promise that I will be totally shocked to learn at some point that members of the arbitration committee are sympathetic to GamerGate.
I made it a whole 1:11 into the video, which is impressive because normally I’ll see any old junk through to the bitter end.
And am I the only one who sees Activated Non-Feminist and just thinks activated yeast? The mental capacities would sure be fairly similar, no?
Interesting that the charts start w/ the observation of feminists being unliked. Makes it clear that ‘they’ think a woman’s purpose is to be approved of by a man or men. What it completely overlooks — & which will, no doubt, REALLY piss them off — is that we do not CARE if we are liked by ‘them’. We neither need nor want anybody else’s approval. Which, I think, is ‘their’ central issue: We don’t believe ‘they’ are not superior to us.
But, we all do need to more readily recognize when men are victimized, & not down play it.
I never saw that movie, or heard of it until now. I’m guessing that the real reason for its non-release to home video was that it rated too low, or was too critically panned, to be considered worth the bother. No Great Feminist Conspiracy™ necessary.
I don’t agree with everything feminism stands for, but I’m frankly worried about what men want to replace it with. Old-fashioned Christianity and chivalry was superstitious and slightly oppressive but stable, and if you were smart you’d conclude that Jesus would never promote rape and was friends with women. He once even stopped a group of hateful men from killing a prostitute with stones, remember: “Go, and sin no more.” he said to her.
But modern men here on the Internet just talk like a bunch of atheistic rapists with no spiritual ideals at all. They’re devolving into brutal animals.
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Because only atheists rape. I’m sure that’s exactly what Jesus would say.
Oh wait, no. Rape and sexual abuse is endemic in Christian patriarchy. It’s almost like misogynists do horrible misogynistic things whether they’re religious ornot!
Ugh. This one is shitting in all the threads 🙁