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So I’ve discovered a new bunch of antifeminist meme-makers who’ve somehow managed to pull off something close to the spectacular ugliness, incoherence, and just plain wrongness achieved by the meme masters at A Voice for Men.
Let’s give a big round of applause to the graphics whizzes of the United Anti-Feminist Coalition and their lovely Facebook page.
The Godwin-tastic meme at the top of this page — which gets bonus Godwin Points because Gloria Allred is actually Jewish — may be my favorite of theirs I’ve seen so far, but there are so many other brilliant contributions on their page that I hardly know where to start.
The UAFC meme-makers, like those at AVFM, do love battling straw feminists.
You know, like the straw feminists who HATE MALE FACIAL HAIR!
The Straw Feminists who are always demanding that random dudes make them happy.
And of course the Straw Feminists who demand “women and children first” when it comes to evacuating ships that for some reason don’t have enough lifeboats.
When the UAFC memers aren’t fighting imaginary feminists, they’re railing against imaginary feminist campaigns. Like the “Free Bleeding” campaign, a phony “feminist” celebration of menstrual blood that was actually concocted by 4chan in an attempt to make feminists look silly.
Well, it’s not feminists who look silly here. Especially given that the kid in the picture below is clearly holding a “Honk if you support Obama” sign with the words “if you support Free Bleeding” photoshopped onto it.
And when they’re not fighting off the specter of “Free Bleeding,” the UAFC is railing against the evils of “spermjacking” with barely comprehensible graphics.
Never mind that men are the ones actually poking holes in condoms; indeed, 16% of women on one recent study had a partner try to sabotage their birth control in an attempt to get them pregnant.
Then there are memes that are just plain incomprehensible:
I mean, I’ve been to Mangina Boot Camp, and it’s nothing like this!
I’ve come to suspect false-flag campaigns like “free bleeding” and “#EndFathersDay” are not actually aimed at trolling women, but rather keeping the manosphere good and angry. Like right-wing bafflegab about “Where’s the birth certificate?” and “BENGHAZI!!!!11” the goal is simply to dump false information into the collective memory; no matter how many times it’s rebutted, the true believers will still have a vague memory of That Time Feminazis Tried To Ban Father’s Day or How Those Gross Feminists Worship Menstrual Blood.
At first, I thought the “Mangina Boot Camp” was supposed to be a re-education camp FOR manginas–ie, the guy standing in the background is the instructor, trying to un-brainwash the manginas of their feminist indoctrination. This would then work if the camp residents were still stuck with their heads in the sand, regurgitating a poorly satirized version of feminist doctrine. Thus, “Entire Class Fail” would indicate that clearly, we who are indoctrinated manginas are somehow impervious to the logical arguments of the MRM.
Of course, this coming from the Greatest Human Rights Movement In History, they failed and just had the guys with their heads in the sand just saying random dumb shit that is utterly unrelated to feminism, pro or con, and thus even their potential point meandered off into the wastelands.
I remember reading that female gorillas also menstruate. So SOME primates actually engage in free bleeding. As far as I know, the male gorillas don’t mind.
Rebbecca Watson did an excellent evidence-based takedown of the “Misandry” of “Women and children first” thing.
Turns out, in actual sea faring disasters before minimum lifeboat laws, with the notable exception of the Titanic(from which that phrase is drawn), women and children were far more likely to die on sinking ships than men. That men overwhelmingly got to lifeboats more than both women and children.
Yeah, that’s right, assholes, your “misandry” was a one time event that reversed the overwhelming trend of killing women(and children) to save men. And most feminists absolutely detest benevolent sexism. Look it up.
Down with spermjacking! Freejaculation for all!
Hey, I can come up with inane antifeminist memes for non-things, too!
WWTH: I don’t think they even get what they’re trying to say. I don’t think any person would get it Maybe cats would get it, chinchillas, titmice or Red Pandas might get it.
See I can be non-sensical, too, but clearly they have mastered that s***.
Oh Robert, in Primatology they have long observed lowland gorillas forming crude belted pads out of twigs and bird nests. IN MY IMAGINARIUM!
These are so terrible it’s almost like it’s intentional. Nobody could make something so hilariously bad by accident, surely?
The “Feminists have double standards on hair”:
All women don’t have to do stuff to please your boner if they don’t want to. All you men also don’t have to do to stuff to be attractive to women. That’s between you and the person(s) you’re having sex with.
My boyfriend shaves his face because 1) he has literally the worst beard in the world, 2) he knows I like his adorable baby face. I shave my legs when around him because I know he likes smooth legs. We both forgive each other if we forget because that’s what reasonable people do while in love.
tldr: Not all men nor all women have to be attractive all the time. Deal.
Because of the way the “women and children first” poll is worded, if you think children should have priority in lifeboats you have to vote yes. They’ve assumed it’s nothing but feminists voting to save women when it’s more likely just people putting kids first.
@Dee, I had that thought too.
I also wonder what they think about the notion of lumping women as a group with children. They probably don’t.
Far as I can tell, that poll about the feminists wanting to Titanikill the menz has all of eleven voters, five of whom said yes. One of those five wrote in a comment that he was only voting yes on the “children first” part. The other four were mostly operating off the “women = nurturing” angle so…probably not feminists. And again, there were five of them, all from a self-selecting group.
Which was presented by the mook who created that image as “fifty percent polled.” Sure, buddy, those eleven people were surely representative of the population as a whole.
Could the beard thing have originated with the neckbeard nerdy gamer stereotype and been taken out of context and inflated to be a straw feminist anti-beard thing?
Also, I’m pretty sure someone photoshopped Adolf Hitler’s eyes to look dark. In reality, they were blue.
(But still scary for all that.)
Also, um, one of those poll results says “White people and children should go first.”
Somehow I’m more creeped out by this picture of Paul Elam than by the picture of Hitler, maybe I’ve just seen that picture of Hitler so often it’s lost what impact it had.
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/02/25/the-5-creepiest-details-from-gqs-long-awaited-account-of-a-voice-for-mens-conference-last-summer/
Free bleeders, LOL. #nofathersday, LOL. They make shit up and then they rail against it.
@Fruit Loopsie,
maybe that’s because I put it through Donotlink, which on reflection is unnecessary with YouTube:
Kate should lean over and whisper “I’m glad there aren’t enough life boats, his beard is gross.”
It wouldn’t be an MRA cartoon without being bizarrely extreme.
During my time as a feminist, or in fact a woman or a girl, I have never uttered the words “You go girl!” or anything like it to support anyone’s actions. I see this often in anti-feminist memes. But then, that is not the weirdest thing to be seen in them, as underlined by this post.
@katz
I think that’s meant to say that, like “white people and children first”, saying “women and children first” is bigoted. It’s hard to tell because of how poorly it’s written.
Hey, I like men with beards. Great, now the MRAs are taking that too.
Oh and the free bleeding thing is a scream. Did the 4channers get anyone to actually fall for that? Last time I checked in the real world there were feminists campaigning to stop sanitary products being taxed as luxury items.
Hey there’s still anti-feminists raging about #killallmen.
Sigh.
You know, if you say “Women and children first,” it sounds sexist, but if you say “children and their caregivers first,” that sounds pretty reasonable and frequently comes to the same thing.
Oh, Sambarge; it’s not *strictly* accurate to say there are no and have never been any free bleeders. Even Ensler is, somehow, a real person. So yeah, free bleeding is a thing in the same pedantic way that SCUM was a thing.