If you have something terrible to say, say it with a meme!
That, at least, seems to be the consensus of some of the worst people on the internet. So I’m starting a little occasional series called “memesplaining” in which I’ll highlight some of the most nonsensical and/or horrific memes I run across on the internet. Today’s is both.
I found the lovely meme above pasted into the comments on the blog of everyone’s favorite rapey, racist “pickup artist” Roosh Valizadeh. I don’t know where it originated, but a quick image search reveals that it’s been making the rounds on 4chan and Reddit.
Here’s the text at a more readable size . I highlighted the worst bits, but then again pretty much the entire thing could be classified as “the worst bits.”
And gosh, it turns out that whoever made this awful meme is as dismissive of the female rape of men as he is of the male rape of women.
Somehow I imagine he’s not quite so keen on rape when men are raped by other men — even though by his logic it’s also “objectively … merely inserting an object into [his] body.”
I feel bad for the people who model for stock photos. I’m sure most of them have no idea that they’ll end up getting used to illustrate crap like this.
http://news.distractify.com/avericlements/chart-helps-you-know-if-your-sexual-assault-was-valid-or-not/
Handy dandy chart to determine whether your sexual assault was “valid” (clicky, you’ll approve)
I can’t even.
Holy shit.
That’s … appalling, at every level.
But as a white male he’s got a very good chance of never being raped and has no fucking empathy whatsoever. And that makes other people’s suffering not an issue, so he’s in the clear, right?/sarcasm
Speaking of sexual assault and rape, anyone else planning on helping boycott 50 Shades of Grey this weekend?
@ParadoxicalIntention
I’m not planning on going to any organized events, but I’m certainly not going to see the movie.
On that I note, I just saw a former coworker post about how much she liked the film on Facebook. It’s the first post I’ve seen that praises the film and I’m really disappointed by it.
I don’t know if it’s a boycott. I just do not want to see that.
@Misha
(TW for more yuck)
A friend at uni said something about how an Italian test was going to rape him. I said something along the lines of “Please use a different word”; I didn’t have the mental energy to explain why it was wrong. (Upon reflection, I think I should’ve put a TW on my previous post. Apologies, folks, I’ll be more considerate in future.)
I once briefly mentioned the wrongness of trivializing rape in passing while commenting on a friend’s Facebook status…My word, the trolling rolled in immediately. Granted, that particular thread may not have been the best place to raise such a topic (since it was about religion in metal music), but I don’t think I deserved to get a bucket of hatorade poured on my head.
@teiresias: Well said. Even if you hypothetically agreed with the (stupid and vile) premise that rape is no worse than theft, theft is still morally wrong and a crime.
Also, I haven’t been treated like a princess since I was six. I have, very rarely, had people mollycoddling me, possibly because of my gender (for example, wondered whether I was able to carry heavy things), and it’s always disturbed me. I’m not a weak, fragile little thing.
Well, I wouldn’t watch “Fifty Shades of Grey” to save my life, but I don’t know whether there’s any kind of boycotting event where I live. I’m thinking of donating the ticket price to a domestic abuse charity, if I can find the money.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/05/nope.gif
Also purchasing a one-way ticket on the Nope Train when it comes to Fifty Shades Of Boundary Violations.
Nope.
http://media2.giphy.com/media/3d6fRYza2OfE4/200_s.gif
I guess that’s why altar boys raped by priests are sad too…..because they can’t monetize their buttholes…..and how sad to not be able to monetize your butthole at such a young age…….If this doesn’t PROVE men’s entitlement to women’s bodies, I don’t know what does.
My other favorite is that these prickfaces all believe that once upon a time, rape didn’t exist because women were ok with whomever wanted to fuck them doing so with or without her consent….and they’d know because they all have their B.S. in Global Vaginomics.
Not to mention, they only think hot women exist. If an ugly or fat woman raped a man, they’d want her prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Does being non-white put men at higher risk of rape? I wasn’t aware it was racialized for men the way it is for women.
Obligatory 50 Dollars Not 50 Shades linkspam.
krantingredhead : Or good old EVO PSYCH! They try to argue that back in cavemen days men raped to make sure their genes survived and the women just lay there and took it because they couldn’t fight them off, then learnt to enjoy it apparently (bleargh). Except that science says in the animal kingdom, among species that reproduce via rape, the females naturally evolve anti-rape defences to make it harder for the male to succeed.
Also science says that we weren’t and still aren’t a species that reproduce via forced sex. So yeah, there is zero evo psych or biology to support the idea of “natural” rape.
-goes into anaphylaxis-
Sorry, sorry, I’m allergic to evo psych….though it makes sense….cavemen didn’t wipe their asses and they whine that they have to in order to get women…..
Not to mention, in caveman days, women had as much sex as they wanted with whomever they wanted so they would have been “sluts.” Thus negating the whole premise…..blargh!
-sings-
People all over the blog
Join hands
Start a barf train
Barf train
@ktrantingredhead “B.S.” being the operative word, there.
I’m staying away from 50 Shades of Grey with a ten-foot pole.
Huh. I thought that humanity has always been monogamous (ish). Apparently we weren’t when still connected to chimps in evolution, but did develop monogamous bonds to stop males killing a rivals offspring.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-evolved-monogamous-relationships-to-stop-men-killing-rivals-babies-says-study-8737095.html
So yeah, for a long time (before the homo sapien stage I think) people did pair up. According to MRA anthropology the rapists back then raped because the uppity wimminz didn’t choose them. So why are they complaining about not being picked in modern times? It’s nature, dudes!
@Buttercup, I call it 50 Shades of Rape….and I’m staying away as well
@ktrantingredhead If you miss only one movie this year, make it that one.
So, from an evolutionary standpoint, whose offspring are more likely to survive to maturity: the selfish, urge-driven jerk who grabs what he wants by force and then takes off, sticking his unwilling (and traumatized and possibly battered) victim with the high costs of forming and raising babby on her own? Or the socially aware, protective guy who hangs around and, yes, treats his partner like a “princess”? (The more I look at that meme, the more I realize “princess” is asshole-speak for “a normal relationship in which caring partners exchange compliments and gifts and adoration and cuddles” because love, what is it and how does it work.)
Despite what these guys believe, “survival of the fittest” doesn’t end with sex. It begins there. Nature doesn’t give two turds in a tornado about notch count. It only cares how many offspring make it to maturity (and can find a partner of their own to reproduce with). Rape just isn’t a viable strategy. Even someone who’s too selfish and morally stunted to tell right from wrong ought to be able to understand that concept.
“I’m staying away from 50 Shades of Grey with a ten-foot pole.”
Only ten feet? Any pole that would be long enough would be too heavy for me to loft.
Well, reading that was the perfect cap to a shitty day. I want out of reality, it’s clearly a clusterfuck of titanic proportions.
Excuse my language.
NonServiam — your language? Around here? Telling these assholes to fuck off is fine, they deserve it!
This meme seems to be mostly a manifestation of the “battle of the sexes” view of gender relations with Randian overtones — in which everything is seen as an economic transaction. In this view sex is a thing that women have and men want, and everything is about negotiating the “price”. If you look closely at the MGTOW thing, it can be seen as a negotiating ploy to reduce the “price” of sex by threatening that if women want too much, the men will say to hell with it and go their own way. Of course they won’t actually go — it’s just a ploy. Men who think that way — who tend to have little interest in the emotional content of sex — tend to project their views on women and to look at accusations of rape as merely another negotiating ploy to increase the “price”: of sex. (Few men are crass enough to openly claim that the “price” should be actual money — most would claim that “princess treatment” (very rare outside of fairy tales) as the “price” women want.)
In this view sex is something women use to manipulate men, rewarding them for being good boys and withholding it when they are insufficiently attentive to the woman’s desires. Men, on the other hand, scheme how to get it at the least cost in “princess treatment”..Ultimately it’s a pretty sad and arid view of sex. I once went over to the MGTOW site, which mainly consists of grousing about how women want too much for sex, but I was amused/appalled by one guy’s view of an ideal relationship. His girlfriend would have her own place to live, job, income, etc. and he would go visit when he wanted sex. She would not ever ask him to help her with any manly stuff at her place, and he would reciprocate. (Of course implicitly she would take care of the birth control and he would probably expect her to make him a sammitch or two when he visited.) I’m not sure there is a (real) ideal woman for him.
By the way, I have a small package of Nope that I found when cleaning out my grandmother’s place. I was thinking of putting it on eBay but if anyone here needs it —
If you can include a packet of Fuck This I’m Out then I’ll buy that box of Nope from you, GOM.
@Buttercup, yeah, the “spread your seed far and wide” thing could make sense in a species whose reproductive strategy was to produce as many offspring as possible and hope some of them make it (think frogs and fish). But given how we literally spend years gestating our young and raising them to maturity, it seems safe to say we as a species have opted for quality over quantity. In which case, as you said, rape-and-run is not going to be the best reproductive strategy.
There’s also the fact that rates of rape are not consistent across cultures. In fact, it correlates strongly with overall oppression of women (will cite when I get home). But a PUA would probably write off those low-rape, more egalitarian cultures as primitive or feminized, so…
Good point Emily. Species that produce only one or two offspring every couple years (for example elephants, whales or bears) tend not to have any natural predators like fish, rodents and insects do, so they don’t need to make up for high risk statistics with more babies. So you see longer gestation periods and a longer time frame in rearing the young. They’re not popped out and abandoned with a fingers crossed, they’re nurtured to survive. So it makes sense that instead of taking in the sperm of whichever male rapes them, they choose their partners with the thought of “does this fella have the genes that will make my baby strong?” Which is often why you have herds of animals impregnated by the alpha – he’s proven his genetic strength in a fight.
But I digress, and I’m starting to sound like a PUA with this dominant alpha stuff. That’s for animals. People select partners based on personality, not who won what in a fight (but on that point, notice that male animals trying to be alpha are usually only aggressive towards other males, not females. Checkmate PUA douchebags).
Speaking of animals, sorry for the teal deer that turned into.