Most conspiracy theorists are surprisingly uncreative in their choice of villains, blaming all the ills in the world on one or more alleged evildoers in a fairly short list: the Jews, the government, the Illuminati, space aliens, and a handful of other familiar suspects.
One Men’s Rights activist wants to add a few more names to the list: the women’s magazines Glamour, Allure, Self, Vogue, and, most terrifyingly, Teen Vogue.
So how did the MRA in question — Dan Perrins of Ontario, Canada — arrive at this particular conclusion? Earlier this year, you see, GQ magazine ran a rather scathing piece by investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet about the Men’s Rights movement, centering around the weekend Sharlet spent amongst the convention-goers at A Voice for Men’s first (and probably only) International Conference for Men’s Issues last year.
Perrins made a brief appearance in the article. He’s the guy Sharlet quoted as saying, about an ex, that “I should have killed the bitch five years ago … I’d be out by now.”
But that’s ancient history now, because there’s a new GQ outrage that has the MRAs up in arms: namely, a cartoon depicting a Men’s Rights Activist as a loudmouthed middle-aged guy that no one wants to listen to.
Now, it’s true that not every single MRA is a loudmouthed middle-aged guy that no one wants to listen to. Obviously, some of them aren’t middle-aged.
But Perrins thinks something more sinister is afoot. In his mind, this cartoon doesn’t reflect the normal revulsion most human beings feel when confronted with a Men’s Rights activist. No, in his mind the GQers are doing the bidding of their evil puppetmasters.
@Calanthecritic @VictorZenMHRA @deanesmay @AVoiceForMen @GQMagazine some background on who owns #GQ pic.twitter.com/pwyc4cE2Ed
— Dan Perrins (@BlackBeard20096) July 11, 2015
While Perrins’ screenshot is a little blurry, he’s highlighting a list of the women’s “fashion and lifestyle” magazines owned by Conde Nast: Vogue, W, Glamour, Allure, Self, and the dreaded … Teen Vogue.
Apparently, in order to appease the vicious feminazis that read and run these magazines, the editors of Conde-Nast-owned GQ need to do all they can to denigrate the true male heroes of the Men’s Rights movement.
Presumably, all other Conde Nast magazines need to follow the feminazi editorial dictates of GLAMOUR and SELF and TEEN VOGUE as well. In other words, don’t expect to find any positive accounts of, say, Dean Esmay’s groundbreaking Twitter campaign against cavernous feminist vaginas, or whatever other important human rights activism that the MRAs are up to today, in the pages of Architectural Digest or Bon Appétit.
But wait. What is this I see in the list of Conde Nast publications?
Is it possible that the feminazis at Teen Vogue aren’t really the ones in charge, but are merely a front for the true puppetmasters?
Could it be that all of Conde Nast is in the pockets of BIG GOLF?
Aren’t the bottom-feeder trolls of Reddit currently mad at Conde Nast too? Does this mean that everything, eventually, truly is all about ethics in video games?
*puts on tinfoil hat just to be sure*
So fashion magazines that are overwhelmingly populated with white, size 0 models wearing 4-inch heels, 5-figure haute couture, and inches of make-up are the tool of men-hating feminazis? This conspiracy is even deeper than we thought!!
Quite so Sarah! I avoid such magazines like the plague and tend to assume that they are of the S&TC brand of ‘feminism’ ie not really feminist at all.
I guess it is just another proof that when MRA’s attack feminists they really just mean any woman (apart from those fervent anti feminists such as Karen Straughn and Judgy Bitch), and those magazines are easy targets, being as how they spout such appalling drivel.
This thing goes all the way to the top!
They’re deviously convincing men that all women look like that naturally so they can bathe in the tears of male disappointment when they realise they don’t! Diabolical.
Max Factor is to blame, and must have secretly been hiding zie true gender configuration!I It’s the only logical conclusion.
Sephora aids and abets untold numbers of women and adolescent girls in their outrageous assault/battery against their joint or personal bank account(s), as they commit their worst cosmetic crimes like 1.) Being an attention whore who goes out on Friday nights with their friends and daring to wear makeup, 2.) buying every Urban Decay “Naked” palette 3.) overdoing things just a bit trying to get permission to leave the house looking like Tammy Faye Baker.
Brought to you by your local Cosmetics Police Auxiliary
Ugh. http://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/no-jail-for-man-who-raped-his-girlfriend-regularly-while-she-slept
Probably already posted here since I know the person who runs the Facebook group I got it from reads this blog.
Still, funny that the MRAs are finally getting their day in the sun and sunlight is the disinfectant we needed.
“teen vogue” is an anagram for “eve tongue.” Obviously, hidden femluminati symbolic code indicating that this is the “mouthpiece” for the Feminine Agenda. And, we all saw where listening to Eve got Adam. Wake up, sheeple!
I’m starting to think that the Freemasons must be feeling a bit left out lately. When was the last time you saw anyone refer to the secret society of communists+ catholics+ jews+ freemasons that used to run the world not so many years ago.
As for loudmouth MRAs putting everyone off their food, I have to confess that I’ve more or less given up on the BTL comments at The Guardian. They descend like locusts on any of Jessica Valente’s articles, but they’re all over the place in all sorts of topics. I tend to stay out of it unless it’s something particularly egregious on a topic that really gets to me. People claiming that Rosie Batty is just ‘playing for sympathy’ because her son was murdered by his father or is unqualified to be Australian of The Year because ‘she’s never done anything noteworthy’ do get me to come out fighting (if I see them on the first page of comments).
There are also a fair number of Mealymouthed selfRighteous Assholes on the ABC (Australian) website as well. I get a bit disheartened and guilty all at once — I don’t usually have it in me to put in a comment and I feel guilty and overwhelmed because I feel as though I should. (I know. I’m not fearless and forthright and energetic now the way I was 40 years ago. But it feels wrong. I just hope my grumpy old lady status will come to the fore and I can do it again, at least intermittently with a burst of occasional fury.)
Interestingly, Conde Nast also owns Reddit. It’s all connected, I tell you! SJWs are everywehre!
Not so. If you rearrange the letters of feminist, you get Freemason!
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view8/4595407/alex-jones-o.gif
Join the Femilluminati today.
@Opium4themasses: Ugh is about right. What a discouraging story! It’s awful that he got away with it *because he confessed*. People are always saying “oh, rape is so hard to prosecute! It’s he says/she says” but here he agrees that he raped her, repeatedly, and the judge is still saying “this is so hard to prosecute!!!1!” Moving goalposts, anyone?
@opium
“She was crazy BEFORE the rape Your Honour, this guy barely hurt her at all!”
http://38.media.tumblr.com/3d29f5a857664a228f304c5fb81c6fe9/tumblr_mizircHKFq1s6vufto2_500.gif
(sorry for ableism)
IRELAND. FIX THIS SHIT. NOW.
@girlscientist
IKR. How fucked up is it that as soon as he confesses they start cooing over him like “awww he says he feels bad! What a nice guy. Here, no jail time for you. ^_^ ”
DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO FAKE REMORSE, YOU DIPSHITS?
And this is why we need feminism.
I knew golf was evil. XD NOW I HAVE PROOF. That being said, this was just a giggle fit to read.
When I started looking into the men’s movement, the first word that popped into my head was “paranoid”. It reminded me of every other movement based on fear, bitterness, victim-blaming and insecurity like Stormfront, neo-nazis, even cult leaders like Charles Manson. You guys have probably already seen this article talking about how the men’s movement recruits young, vulnerable people.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-uncomfortable-truths-behind-mens-rights-movement/
Curse you, Big Golf! Curse you!
Also; that news story from Ireland: I feel ill and I want to leave again.
@kylagb, I hadn’t seen that one before, great article. It’s always reassuring when mainstream publications (particularly those aimed at a male audience) just can’t take the manosphere seriously.
Yeah; I don’t think most MRAs understand what American Beauty is about.
Why am I not surprised.
Not that I can speak for World Freemasonry*, but there are still plenty of. . . innnteresting people who are fascinated/horrified by the Craft and its members. There’s just so very much competition now that it’s harder to spot.
*Nobody can. There is no Magister Ipsissimus in a secret location controlling the entire society. Really.
Fun fact: There’s actually a Freemason building in my town, compass logo and everything.
… It’s just a social club hall. All they do is hang out, drink, pray and donate to charity. Unless beer gives them superpowers, I suppose.