Dean Esmay, the Chief Operations Officer (whatever that is) of A Voice for Men, has scored a major public relations coup for the Men’s Rights movement with his aggressive promotion of an exciting new Twitter hashtag, #SpankAFeminist.
In what I can only assume is an attempt to convince the world that MRAs do indeed spend a good portion of their days fantasizing about doing physical harm to feminists, Esmay explains in a post on AVFM that the hashtag is necessary “because it’s finally time to put abusive liars over the knee.”
In case you’re wondering, when he refers to “abusive liars” he means feminists and not, you know, people who think that publicly fantasizing about spanking feminists is 1) hilarious and 2) some kind of actual activism on the behalf of men.
Esmay is quick to assure his readers that he is only referring to metaphorical spankings over metaphorical knees.
As he sees it, feminists are pretty much all just begging to be spanked (metaphorically).
Why would you spank a feminist? Well in reality, we know a lot of them would complain but some might actually enjoy it. Who knows? Maybe they’re just shit-testing us all and waiting and feeling frustrated that we aren’t responding right.
Evidently, in Esmayland, when women challenge their male partners with so-called “shit tests” it’s because deep down they want to be physically assaulted.
Also, feminists are a bunch of meanies, anyway.
[A]ny time you meet a feminist, you should spank him or her until they cry. And do it every time they open their mouths to spew forth their hateful lies about standing for tolerance, inclusion, and equality, when there is no movement in the modern world that does more to fight against tolerance, inclusion, freedom, and equality than feminism. Not even real life fascists or communists can top them at this point.
Feminism is an intolerant, hateful, racist, anti-gay, misandrist, misogynist, gynocentric religion and hate movement.
Yep, that’s right: In Esmayland, feminists are actually worse than real Nazis.
So how is the spanking going so far? Here are a few of Esmay’s contributions to the hashtag. As always, he is a master of subtlety. CONTENT WARNING for terrible rape references. Also a WAIT, WHAT? WARNING for some of the nonsensiest nonsense I think I’ve ever seen.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612941449810677760
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612847267972669440
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612822995396984832
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612952905218273280
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612953182319214592
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612948591808659456
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612947630042185729
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612942938646032384
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612816059138113536
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612816846811574272
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612965121149796352
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612965888615141376
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612952601131249664
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612762509620068352
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612779175095746560
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612648857277743104
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612744601368162304
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/612472638317838336
You may have noticed that Esmay favors some rather colorful descriptions of feminists and feminism. Here are a few others he’s used in the hashtag over the last day or so.
- Bitter bitchy harpies
- Cruel violent abusive harpies
- Hatemongering cultist[s]
- Misandrist bigot[s]
- Bigots and bullies
- Hateful feminist bigot and bully
- Bigot feminists
It’s weird that someone who complains so much about alleged feminist “bigotry” is fine with publishing articles written by a literal Holocaust denier.
Also, given how evil we feminists are, it seems a bit strange that Esmay tried to friend me on LinkedIn the other day.
First Paul Elam, now Dean Esmay wants to be my LinkedIn buddy.#ThatWouldBeANo #AVFMersCantInternet pic.twitter.com/jSEaxllpKT
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) June 18, 2015
Dean Esmay, man of many surprises.
While Esmay’s tweets seem to make up roughly half of the #SpankAFeminist hashtag, a handful of other terrible people have enlisted in Esmay’s (metaphorical) spanking crusade. Here are some of the most charming of the bunch, and when I say “charming” I mean CONTENT WARNING for gratuitous rape references, violent gifs, and Dan Perrins being Dan Perrins. (I’ve omitted the assorted porn pictures the #SpankAFeminist folks have posted.)
https://twitter.com/Synthovine/status/612305594595287041
https://twitter.com/rustBeltExpat/status/612326507374096384
https://twitter.com/Rob_Simple/status/612347342142967808
Feminists want to be pampered like children? Well, in that case it's only natural that some daddy is gonna #SpankAFeminist.
— Manninist (@Manninist) June 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/ivanhoelaxative/status/612965848613961728
https://twitter.com/Ronakm4/status/612363912185450496
My hands aren't big enough to spank most blue haired feminists. Maybe if I had a pizza paddle? #SpankAFeminist
— BaconManLives 🐻🏈 (@baconmanlives) June 21, 2015
Insecure, ignorant, lack of self esteem boiled in victim-hood genduh studies voila inter-sexual feminist bigot @deanesmay #SpankAFeminist
— Dan Perrins (@BlackBeard20096) June 22, 2015
All of this is truly good for bitcoin Men’s Rights.
@ej ta that sounds cool
You know, when you have to pretend you aren’t even a part of your own “movement,” maybe that’s a sign your movement is terrible. We constantly get these “not and MRA but…” *proceeds to repeat MRA talking points* trolls. It’s even on MRA bingo. Notice that only groups who are hateful have to do this. White supremacists do it too.
You know who doesn’t have to do this? Feminists. We have nothing to be ashamed of.
@ autosoma
Those feelings arise because you’re an empathic person. That’s a *good* thing!
I don’t know if you’re familiar with all the SLA Marshall and Dave Grossman work; but what you describe are the feelings that any compassionate human would have in those circumstances. Luckily for most people they never have to encounter those circumstances.
The military put in a lot of research on how to overcome those feelings. Mainly it boils down to utilising crew served weaponry as much as possible. The major difficulty is with riflemen. You describe very eloquently the issues that arise when you stare down those sights. Most non-sociopaths have some variation on those feelings.
Armies try to counter that by creating ‘distance’. That’s not just physical distance but includes other ways of de-humanising the target. That’s why there’s such heavy reliance on night vision scopes and the like; it’s harder to equate that green smudge with an other human being.
This is how the military (and it’s generally accepted that the British are the best at this) can take nice ordinary compassionate people and turn them into such effective soldiers. The price however is the high risk of PTSD.
It’s probably small comfort, but the fact you’re suffering like this is only because you’re ‘normal’. That is to say you’re a non-sociopathic human being. It’s only that 1-2% of the population who are sociopathic that aren’t at risk of PTSD.
[Sorry for any ableist language, but being technical here]
I’m increasingly convinced that these guys have no fecking clue what these words mean and only see them as win conditions, so to speak.
Like so “huh, someone called me racist and then everyone turned against me. Clearly this has nothing to do with my behavior and the word is just magic. If I call sometime else that, I will automatically win the argument! In fact, let’s use a the magic, meaningless words that I’ve heard mentioned, like misogynistic and homophobic! And use the magic shield phrases of ‘ out of context!’ and ‘ statirical’ to prevent them from criticizing me! This plan cannot fail! “
@sff9
Thanks for responding. I copied text in my browser and pasted it between two blockquote tags. I’m gonna try typing manually:
Hm. It’s a mystery.
I’ve made like 2 ironic spankafeminist tweets and Dean Esmay and the “Spank a Feminist” account both favorited/retweeted them. I don’t know if they don’t realize I’m using their hashtag intentionally wrong, or if they don’t care as long as it’s being used…
I posted something here earlier at autosoma with my contact email addy. I’m hoping it’s stuck with the moderation mammoth.
@alan… Thank you
I’m just sitting here thinking about Dean being in a dark room arguing with little straw dolls he’s dressed up in “women’s” clothing.
And when they disobey, he puts them on his knee and “spanks” them all while muttering to himself about “stupid feminists”.
It’s creepy, and kind of sad in a way.
@Auntie Alias, I guess you simply have forgotten to offer a sacrifice to the WordPress gods, then.
Through this hashtag, I learned that Alison Moyet is a feminist, so there’s that, at least.
I know British irony and sarcasm bypass septics in the main, but having my arsecrack retweeted by Deano is… Beggars belief
Oh…my….Goddess.
He did? He really, truly did?!
It’s like he doesn’t care what goes into the hashtag, as long as people put stuff in there. Good lord.
I kinda wanna spam it now with stuff like “#SpankAFeminist, but get their consent first! Consent is kinky!” just to wait and see him finally get the message that we’re fucking with him.
@autosama
I need to see this, but I’m afraid to look into the tag.
@Paradoxical Intention
I reaaaaaaaally want to spam their hashtag with loving consentual BDSM but I hate twitter. XD The dilemna!
Just got a new paddle to try out <3
#SpankAFeminist
So I told her "I mark reaaaaally easily ;)"
#SpankAFeminist
I saw this double-handed flogging tutorial on youtube!
#SpankAFeminist
We both looked at the spatula, then each other, then at the spatula again
#SpankAFeminist
Now you're all tied up with your ass exposed
#SpankAFeminist
I lost count, so naturally she had to start over.
#SpankAFeminist
Gotta think of an excuse to explain why I'm standing at my desk all day.
#SpankAFeminist
@Moocow
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TWEET THOSE THINGS!
THEY ARE GLORIOUS.
YOU’RE HILARIOUS.
Have I flattered you enough to make you tweet them yet? 😉
#TakeOverSpankAFeminist
I’ll put this on fetlife. Hopefully the hordes of SJW BDSMers will find this as funny as we do.
Aaaaaaactuallly, it doesn’t beggar belief, it just shows up rank thoughtless stupidity of it.
Perhaps we could get a world tour going for him #spankablokewhoendevourstosupportfeminismdeanoworldtour
Drive-by Sparklemuffin:
I’m starting #SpankAnMRA, everyone join in!
I went scrolling through Deano’s Twitter page to see if I could find auto’s bum, but I gave up.
There was just…so…much…crap.
Like, is this all this guy does?
But I’ll admit that I’m not a Twitter-person. (I was nice and didn’t say, “Twit.”)
There’s not enough coffee in the world to make a slog through a feed like his worthwhile.
David’s a better, more patient person than I’ll ever be.
Feminist or not, if I had to pick a man to spank me it wouldn’t be him.
The motive for that being … ???