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We live in a matriarchy because YOUR MOM, that’s why, MRA explains

Science has proven many things about your mom
Science has proven many things about your mom

Today’s lesson in Men’s Rights pseudoscience comes from a regular contributor to A Voice for Men named Stephen Jarosek, who also goes by the name “Codebuster.” The “code” he has “busted” this time? The code of the Seekret Matriarchy That Runs the World. And he’s busted it with … SCIENCE! (Or at least a very, very rough approximation of it.)

Put on your wrong-thinking caps, because Codebuster is going to get all technical here! He starts off his essay with a lengthy discussion of sciencey stuff that includes sentences like these:

Nonlocality is crucial to explaining the binding problem. It explains how neurons (and other body cells) are entangled into a unity in a manner that is analogous to how people within a city are “entangled” through telecommunications and media. …

Once we accept nonlocality as the all-pervasive given, the basic processes, based in semiotic theory, make perfect, easy sense (just briefly, semiotic theory relates to the fundamental properties of thought processes for all living entities – motivation, association and habituation).

Honestly, I only lightly skimmed this portion of his post, because it’s only relevant as a sort of throat-clearing preface to the SMOKING GUN OF MATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION that Codebuster drops about half-way through:

It is now well established that, by far, most of a human brain’s wiring (its functional specializations) is accomplished within only the first few years of life. These are the years spent under the care of the primary nurturer. 

And in most cases this “primary nurturer” is — wait for it — YOUR MOM! 

Or, to be more technical, “Your Momma.”

Jarosek doesn’t mention this, but SCIENCE has already proven many things about your momma. To wit, she is:

  • so nasty that she brings crabs to the beach
  • so dirty that she makes Right Guard turn left
  • so poor she went to McDonald’s and put a milkshake on layaway
  • so lazy that she stuck her nose out the window to let the wind blow it

Science has also proven that when she sits around the house, she really is more likely, statistically speaking, to be the primary carer for small children. As Codebuster explains,

It is the primary nurturer, usually the mother, who first defines the things that matter… the things that first wire brains, to set the foundations for all that comes later. Momma knows what she wants her little man to be, and she knows what entitlements her little girl deserves.

And that’s how the matriarchy gets you!

Children first learn how to be from their primary nurturer. It’s not rocket science to realize that The Matriarchy establishes the foundations in young minds upon which “The Patriarchy” (whatever feminists imagine that to be) is built.

That’s right: the MATRIARCHY creates “The Patriarchy” and is secretly running it the whole time! Or something.

Taken individually, The Matriarchy wields far greater power than The Patriarchy ever could. There is no such thing as a patriarchy that magically materializes on its own, from a vacuum, independently of The Matriarchy that nurtures and raises it, to then go on to oppress womankind.

Your momma is devious! So devious that I have no fucking clue exactly what sinister conspiracy Codebuster is talking about here.

Anyhoo,

Based on the training and rewards that most children receive first from their mothers, boys become men who do women’s bidding, while girls become women who, feminist indoctrination notwithstanding, prioritize the raising of children …

Boys become men who provide, and girls become women who are provided for (or, in the current affirmative-action zeitgeist, they might work so long as it does not impact too adversely on quality of life).

Huh. Most of the women I know “choose” to work in order to, you know, pay the rent and buy food and, when they have kids, pay for those kids’ expenses. I had no idea that it was optional, and that women are actually paid more not to work?

I guess it’s like when the government pays farmers not to grow crops.

Codebuster also explains that “feminism’s attack dogs” are the way they are because of poop.

They can be counted on to respond on cue with the matriarchal indoctrination that they had inculcated into them from their infancy. They know their correct place as white knights saving damsels in distress. Without question, they lay their coats over puddles so that the li’l ladies won’t get their dainty feet wet. They have no idea of the matriarchal source that governs their blind obedience to their mistress. They don’t remember back when they used to have their cute little noses rubbed into their poo on the carpet, and spanked so that they never do it again.

Now, on the surface, this theory might seem a bit like utter bullshit made up by someone looking for an excuse to blame women for everything. But Codebuster reminds us again that it is all backed by SCIENCE, or at least a very very rough approximation of it.

Neural plasticity in conjunction with lived experiences, not “genetic programming,” is the key to understanding that what works in training dumb animals for circus acts also works in training dumb males as obedient lap-dogs for The Feminist Matriarchy, or as dumb providers who don’t question the provided-fors that spend their money. …

Before anyone can hope to transcend anything, they need to first transcend The Matriarchy.

Huh. So, if the early childhood years are key to everything, it would seem — to me at least — that the current generation of Men’s Rights activists are doing a very poor job of it.

Instead of campaigning for “financial abortions” and abandoning their own children to the matriarchal overmommas, they should instead be demanding that they be the primary caregivers to the world’s babies and toddlers, poopy diapers and all. Regardless of whether the poopy diapers belong to the babies, or to them.

Hmm. Paul Elam, the head deadbeat dad of the Men’s Rights movement, seems to be casting about for a new moneymaking scheme now that donations to his pocket A Voice for Men seem to be drying up.

Might I suggest he try babysitting?

NOTE TO PARENTS: Do not ever, under any circumstances, hire Paul Elam as a babysitter.

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Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)
Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)
9 years ago

@proxieme

Evil. evil person.

I like your style.

Pen
Pen
9 years ago

The Matriarchy: teaching little kids to count to three, distinguish red from blue, and tie their shoelaces, for no pay, for centuries and counting.

Lady Mondegreen
9 years ago

It’s also the idiots who are the most confident of their idiot ideas

AKA the Dunning-Kruger effect.

AKA Yeats “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”

Subtract Hominem, the Renegade Misandroid
Subtract Hominem, the Renegade Misandroid
9 years ago

Before anyone can hope to transcend anything, they need to first transcend The Matriarchy.

It’s your fault I’m like this! I have no hope! Human rights!

Also, who wants to join my new band, Transcend the Matriarchy?

Lea
Lea
9 years ago

Pen,
Yup. Wiping baby butts, folding socks and singing lullabies is all part of our devious plan to …something something?

Aunt Edna
Aunt Edna
9 years ago

@snorkmaiden:

That xyzbgwpua is entertaining. Reminds me of Rollo Irrational Male Tomassi in his incomprehensible verbosity and adorably solipsistic tendency to quote himself ad nauseam. Cuz repeating your own bizarre and made up arguments to prop up more of your bizarre and made up arguments just screams Authoritaaah!

Redpillians could save themselves and all of us lots of time typing up argle-bargle, and issue instead this simple yet effective blanket statement of their beliefs… er, reality (as they see it):

IT’S ALWAYS TEH WOMENZ FAULT (IATWF, in short).

There.

Vanir (@Vanir85)
9 years ago

The Matriarchy: teaching little kids to count to three, distinguish red from blue, and tie their shoelaces, for no pay, for centuries and counting.

I have a distinct feeling the cries of MISANDRY and FEMINAZIS would rise even higher if mothers STOPPED doing what they do…

Scarlettathena
9 years ago

I’m once again left to wonder if men are stupid, spineless idiots who blindly provide for women without once asking for anything in return or sooper dooper geniuses who invented everything and women should worship simply for their superduperness by lavishing sex acts.

Not in this picture: any gay or trans people – ’cause don’t really exist.

Lea
Lea
9 years ago

Goodnight Moon is really propaganda for the matriarchy. What’s that kitten doing there, spying? Why is the old woman trying to silence the little bunny? Does the little bunny know too much? Is the moon the all seeing eye of our feminist friend Katie?

All the Pretty Little Horses is really about training girls to grow up to ride a carousel and I think we all know what kind of carousel. *wink*

Huh. I can make up conspiracy theories on the spot as jokes that are just as plausible as the ones MRAs do for realsies.

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

All the moms I know use praise, stickers, and jellybeans to get their kids to poop in the potty.

MRAs will never, ever admit that positive reinforcement is a more effective way to get people to do what you want them to do than punishment is. Because then they would have to admit that punishing and abusing women for not acting how they want us to act is no way to achieve a better society. They imagine that the effective and/or typical parenting techniques are authoritarian, even abusive because they think women are like children and want to treat us like we’re misbehaving toddlers.

They don’t believe that mothers really potty train by rubbing kids face in it when they have an accident. They want to metaphorically, rub poo in women’s faces for defying their authority as men.

Just my former psych major hot take 🙂

Buttercup Q. Skullpants
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
9 years ago

There is no such thing as a patriarchy that magically materializes on its own, from a vacuum, independently of The Matriarchy that nurtures and raises it, to then go on to oppress womankind.

Does this also mean that men didn’t invent everything ever? Because how could they, in a vacuum, independently of The Matriarchy?

@proxieme – The shape and size looks similar to a fishing spider. Do you live near water?

The weirdest thing I ever found in my basement was an 18″ fungus that looked like a lasagna noodle. It sprouted through a crack in the floor after a week of heavy rain.

Scarlettathena
9 years ago

Stupid rants like this actually make me really sad because what I witness in my day-to-day life is parents really trying to give their children of any gender the best possible education about the way the world works. I don’t see any idle women sitting on the couch popping bonbons while their husband slaves away at some dangerous job. Both parents work, both parents take some responsibilities at home, both parents play and discipline children. Basically, I just find it sad that some idiot makes a mockery of their real work to score some ideological point.

Also, I just never recognize reality when I read their screeds. Like, what are they even incoherently ranting about?

katz
katz
9 years ago

Let the record state that you shouldn’t potty-train dogs or other animals that way, either. Like children, they respond best to positive reinforcement.

Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)
Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)
9 years ago

Does this mean women are also responsible for for the success of men since they raised the successful men to be successful?

Successful.

katz
katz
9 years ago

Ninja’d on the dog thing.

Buttercup Q. Skullpants
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
9 years ago

@Lea

Goodnight Moon is really propaganda for the matriarchy. What’s that kitten doing there, spying? Why is the old woman trying to silence the little bunny? Does the little bunny know too much? Is the moon the all seeing eye of our feminist friend Katie?

I counter this by using “Pat The Bunny” to teach my sons kino escalation.

sunnysombrera
9 years ago

Yup. Wiping baby butts, folding socks and singing lullabies is all part of our devious plan to …something something?

Devious plan to do what we do every night, of course.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/looneytunes/images/8/86/Pinky_%26_The_Brain_Wallpaper.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121124222722

sunnysombrera
9 years ago

GOD DAMMIT NO EMBED. YOU RUINED THE JOKE, WORDPRESS.

Tina S
Tina S
9 years ago

Hell, my mom did something wrong then. She told me that at sixteen i needed to get a job so i could pay for my own stuff. Guess she should’ve taught to me, what, kiss up my father for that money or find a boyfriend to pay for stuff. I just made myself sick to my stomach typing that. I actually tried being a gold digger. I didn’t like it. I’d rather buy my own stuff.

As for my son, he’s tightfisted like his dad. Good luck to any young woman that wants to raid his wallet.

ikanreed
ikanreed
9 years ago

@sunnysombrera

In the end, I think they really don’t know what they want.

It’s not actually easy to determine how a society should be structured and where it should be unstructured, as much as many people(some feminists included) pontificate about it.

But they know they’re angry.

Tina S
Tina S
9 years ago

Awww, wiping cute little baby butts and folding itty bitty baby socks and..scrolls thru to find comment box…WTF DID I JUST SEE BIG SPIDER WHO PUT SPIDER PIC NONO

sparky
sparky
9 years ago

I don’t have enough in my bloodstream to unpack this nonsense.

Just, WTF?

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cats-reactions-to-pss-pss-pss-240×180.jpg

Paradoxical Intention
9 years ago

magnesium | June 16, 2015 at 1:34 pm
This is the Timecube of “How can there be a patriarchy if my mom can make me clean my room”.

That’s pretty much what I got from this. “Mom made me do things, so there’s no patriarchy!”

It’s the MRA-equivalent of “There’s no climate change because I shoveled snow out of my driveway!”

In other words: I don’t see it, so it’s not happening.

zoon echon logon
zoon echon logon
9 years ago

@Subtract Hominem, the Renegade Misandroid

Also, who wants to join my new band, Transcend the Matriarchy?

I’d be happy to come to shows near me, but you guys only play nonlocally.