Ian Ironwood, as he calls himself, is the proprietor of the blog The Red Pill Room. He’s also a big fan of retro art. Alas, he has attempted to combine these two interests, producing a series of baffling “memes” in which he pastes little manosophere lessons on top of artwork borrowed from postwar American magazines and paperbacks.
Here are 9 more of my favorites, pulled from Ironwood’s Twitter stream.
1) “Your sudden newfound support for feminism will do absolutely nothing to get you laid.”
In this meme from last Fall, Ironwood tries to warn any young men who’ve fallen under the spell of Emma Watson that taking up feminism will not entitle them to a harem of sexy feminist ladies. Why anyone would assume that it would is unclear. but evidently in Ian Ironwood’s world, nothing is worth doing unless it’s guaranteed to get you laid.
2) “Always flush it yourself!”
Of course, those fellas who do manage to get themselves laid have a whole other set of problems, one of the most pressing being the ever-present threat of spermburgling. Yes, it’s true (by which I mean “not true”): Women are devious creatures who will sneak used condoms out of the wastebasket in order to impregnate themselves and thereby set themselves up for a lifetime of sweet, sweet child support payments.
So flush all your condoms down the toilet. After filling them with tabasco sauce. And thumbtacks. Then jump out the window and run, run like the wind!
3) “Until shit’s on fire.”
Apparently, anyone whose house catches on fire should put it out themselves.
4) “ELIMINATE the dads … and EFFEMINIZE the sons.”
Dads! Defeat the feminazis with Orange Crush.
5) “It’s your son’s best defense against feminism!”
Apparently, being an “active and involved dad” means going after feminism with a baseball bat?
6) “Real men know their place!”
You know, if you’re trying to get across the idea that feminism is all about women dominating men, you guys should probably stop illustrating your rants with sexualized pictures of dominant women designed to appeal to men with BDSM fetishes. Because this isn’t something that feminists are forcing on men; this is something that dudes actually seek out and sometimes pay a lot of money for.
7) “Don’t help them unless ordered to!”
Apparently the best way to protect yourself from accusations of sexual harassment is to be a giant douchebag.
8) “Not really a viable Reproductive Strategy anymore.”
Apparently Mr. Ironwood has confused feminism with lesbianism. And confused lesbianism with two women in slinky dresses looking out of two large holes that someone has cut into their front doors. And confused both with “reproductive strategies.” Also, he’s evidently unaware that lesbians can in fact have children.
9) “Wake me up when it’s ok to be a boy again!”
Forget about Ian Ironwood for a second. I just want to know why this poor kid’s hand has been replaced by a dog’s asshole.
Actually Adam Warren’s rather warped superhero parody Empowered had an entire chapter about superheros who’s powers derived the from some form of STD, an event so common the superhero community had the appropriate support groups. Hence, naughty bits that indeed gave superpowers.
Can you imagine dating one of these guys?
“I know we were really careful, but somehow I got pregnant…”
“You’re just trying to trap me! Sperm-jacker! Women are just out to get pregnant and trap men!”
“…But I’m clearly not ready to have a child so I’m going to end the pregnancy…”
“Why don’t men get a say? Why are going to kill our child? What about father’s rights?!”
There really is no winning if you’re a woman.
If anyone is looking for something more worthwhile to spend their time instead of puzzling over badly written memes, I suggest going over to the Cornell bird cam site.
You can see a baby albatross grow up – live from Hawaii (nice pics of paradise for those of us in the frozen, snowy NE, USA). The view switches between two tross families. Megacuteness alert!
There are also two owlets being brooded by a gorgeous great horned owl in Savannah. Then, there are Texas barn owls in courtship phase and soon the red-tailed hawks in Ithaca will start doing their thing.
You can also see their Twitter feeds and absurd cuteness that way.
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/41/Laysan_Albatross/
@Scarlettathena
That’s a cute albatross! My favorite seabird has to be the blue footed booby though.
Let’s see if I can succeed in linking a picture…
Wouldn’t watching porn all day just numb you so you don’t get aroused by it anymore? How is that enviable?
@Spindrift –
Those are some mighty cute boobies! I would love to travel to the Galapagos and see them.
I saw brown boobies in the Virgin Islands. What amazing divers! I could watch them all day.
Of course they do.
One of the first things we were taught in first aid was to assess the situation first, and only get directly involved if we thought we could do so safely. Because if we charged into a burning building, or an area with a gas leak, we’d likely just end up being one more person who needed rescuing by the people with the proper training and equipment.
I would assume that firefighters have the same sort of thing drilled into them: you dying does not help put out the fire. Keep the fire from spreading as much as possible; rescue what people you can safely; minimize the damage to the burning structure. In roughly that order.
For all their talk about being a father, how come there are no real fatherhood articles on MRA sites? The only one I’ve seen is only teaching how to use your son as a way to pick-up women and live through him by encouraging him to be sexually active as a teen. And there was a marriage article that advised men to not bond with their offspring until they’re about 3 or 5.
To them, children seem to be just a burden put on by sneaky women, fatherhood is just a terrible curse and God forbid you have to pay child support. They can have as many 1950’s art pieces posted up, but they never talk about the joys, responsibilities or genuine love for children.
Regarding: Can you imagine dating one of these guys?
I’m trying, but so many of the “problems” these guys have wouldn’t ever come up if they dated men.
Also, my dating experience is severely limited so it’s just somewhat difficult to imagine anyway.
http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg595/capnben1/RedPill1_zps7ahzf0hy.jpg
http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg595/capnben1/RedPill2_zpsg749airj.jpg
Bodsworth’s all over this.
As ridiculous as these are, I found myself admiring the attention to lighting in most of the artwork instead.
Also, regarding #3, I’m surprised no-one posted this yet:
http://i.imgur.com/nYxyfPo.jpg
Beautiful, Sir Bodsworth.
http://imgur.com/1Fw2QQC
Very nice, Sir Bodsworth. You got this stuff locked down!
Also, I’m going to leave this here, because it has sincerely brightened my day, and it was something I didn’t know I needed.
ParadoxicalIntention
That was way past sweet. I love Wednesday.
Wait, are they trying to say that real independent people fight their own housefires? As if some MRA idiot wouldn’t’ call the fire department if his house caught fire?
This whole campaign is nuts, but that point in particular is especially convoluted and stupid.
Dumpster Jedi
“This whole campaign is nuts”
You must be new there is a welcome package click on the candle and also on this blog we are avoiding ableist terms like ‘nuts’, ‘crazy’ and ‘insane’
Dumpster Jedi:
Well because a majority of firefighters are men (though in MRAville, it’s all of them), when another man puts out his housefire, he gets vicarious man credit because he’s part of the man-collective. It says nothing about his manhood, because manhood in general put it out. When a woman, not being part of the man collective, has her fire put out by a man, she has nothing to do with it. Manhood put out her fire. Which includes all the MRAs.
Holy shit! Ian based his entire at series on Tom Leykis’s radio show. Nothing original!
Bodsworth, wait, are you actually Ian Ironwood? Is the whole thing some kind of long-con troll job? That would explain a lot. His stuff always seems too ridiclous to be real.
This is my favorite Wednesday Adams moment.
http://youtu.be/0zH5jRHkXXQ
David:
But how long until he’s too deep into the role like that guy you got to pretend to be “Paul Elam.” This never ends well! Never!
MRA psychological projection at its finest. Just because you’re a disingenuous creep who lies to get laid doesn’t mean every other guy is.