It’s a day ending in “y” and “Men’s Human Rights Activist” Dean Esmay is spamming another hashtag on Twitter with belligerent and nonsensical Tweets directed at some imaginary feminist living in his head.
Wait, these were Tweeted yesterday, not today. Let me check something.
Yes, Thursday is also a day ending in “y,” so let’s continue.
It seems Mr Esmay is angry that his propensity for calling women “cunts” and other gendered slurs sometimes causes people to take his alleged ideas less seriously. (Click on screenshots to see archived versions of each Tweet.)
Er, laterally?
Oh, wait, I think he meant “literally.” Which leads me to my next question:
Er, literally?
Men are literally being set on fire for saying the word “cunt?” Where exactly?
Esmay, naturally, provides no citation for this claim.
Then, literally two minutes later, he literally followed up these two “cunt” tweets with this:
Philogyny, by the way, is not some term you’ve forgotten from biology class; it means love or admiration of women, the opposite of misogyny.
It’s sort of a weird thing to bring up immediately after defiantly asserting your right to call women, or feminist women (or whoever Esmay is talking about) “cunts.”
It’s even weirder when you consider that Esmay’s very next tweet is this “warning”/veiled threat to feminists/women/whoever that men even worse than Esmay are waiting in the wings, eager to attack feminists/women/whoever even more viciously.
“Penetrate” is an interesting choice of words in this context, no?
Also, I regret to have to inform Mr. Esmay that the “way more extreme” men aren’t actually “way more extreme” than he is. Nor are they waiting for Esmay to fail, or indeed waiting for anything; they are already attacking women energetically, sometimes rhetorically, sometimes physically.
After a couple more Tweets along similar lines to those previously quoted, Esmay channeled his inner angry teenager and declared
I can’t help but finish Tweets like this in my mind with “… MOM!” and the sound of a bedroom door slamming.
Several minutes and several angry Tweets later, Esmay posted … this:
I’ll just end this post here, because WAT.
I bring you these Tweets not because they are the worst things that Esmay — or any other MRA — has said. I bring them to you because they are in fact rather typical for Esmay, who Tweets dozens and perhaps even hundreds of Tweets much like this every day.
Esmay — the “Chief Operating Officer” of A Voice for Men — is one of the highest profile Men’s Rights Activists online. (Oh, sorry, Men’s Human Rights Activists”) online. This is what he does all day, every day, attacking imaginary feminists for the benefit of his mostly imaginary followers.
To whom is he directing these to, is the question of the ages. I imagine her given name is “Straw” and family name “Feminist”, but I can’t honestly be sure of that.
– Claims that men love women, and don’t hate them.
– Calls women narcissistic cunts
– Claims that women are being irrational about being called cunts by rando dudes on the internet
– Vague tweets
– Wonders why women don’t listen to him
– ???
– Beg for donations!
Alice, Well, there’s that one lady, that one time, who said she has learned to hate all men. so really, it’s so obvious that non-ladies (cause we don’t call c-worders, ladies) who just hate men are everywhere. Cause reasons. And “so there!”
Wow. Just wow. He’s a bottomless well of self-lampooning, isn’t he?
I think that in that last tweet Esmay is referring to The Fall in the apocalyptic sense, not the season.
Head injury? Tumor pressing on the amygdala?
Whenever a misogynist claims to love women and be misunderstood and harassed by them, I am always reminded of the following speech.
Much professional. Very human rights. Wow.
Dear Dean,
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Well he got one thing right, “what I say doesn’t matter,” he should have stopped right there.
Does anybody take a Twitter meltdown seriously?
He tries so very hard to be scary. Like one of those yappy little dogs.
Good lord how he’s getting irrational. One day he’ll be afraid to open his own closet in case he finds a SJW feminist lying in wait to accuse him of rape.
@I’ll bet he’s wary about getting into elevators in case a woman steps in.
Did he ever get his tooth fixed?
Ah, anticipating Autumn. Classic feminist behaviour, amirite? #ImLaterallyRite
Fail to penetrate? Nice job at the subtle rape threat, Dean. No one could ever figure that one out!
One day, this man may say something that makes sense. When he does… it will be a total accident.
I think he needs to take a little break from the interent. And by “little” I mean “permanently” and by “interent”, I mean “internet” because I’m a bad speller.
Thank you spellcheck! You are an unsung hero. <3
I thought that Esmay’s reference to a ‘failure to penetrate’ was a subconscious desire to tell all about his erectile dysfunction, or lack of luck with the ladeez. But yes, the growing packs of men waiting for Esmays failure are horribly rapey sounding. Sounds like an extreme cuckolding video, at best.
Gangs of killer men?
Penetrate?
Fall?
If you’re making badly veiled rape and death threats, hurling slurs and hoping for the downfall of civilization you might just be the baddie.
Speaking of the “Fall”, how does the fall of civilization help men and boys? Won’t they be dying of illness, starvation, murder and unsafe roads and vocations along with the ebil wimmenz? Does he think roving bands of post apocalyptic rapists and murderers are really good for men and boys? For that matter, how does raping and murdering women help men and boys get a better social safety net? What exactly protects men and boys from the gangs of angry men? Their brotherly love?
No feminist anywhere is setting men on fire, through AVFM has encouraged them emulate a man who set himself on fire. WTF?
Just… huh? Is this an extended Twitter meltdown, or is he desperately trying to get a hashtag, any hashtag, to trend?
Ontogyny recapitulates philogyny.
Dean dreaming of how wonderful the apocalypse will be for men and boys sort of reminds me of someone.
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Seriously, can’t you just hear him screaming in giddy delight, “He looked at me!”?
@Lea He had the self-awareness which Dean apparently doesn’t. Here’s hoping Jordan Owen tracks that character arc, except for the suicide of course.
Really though, who the hell is Dean talking to?
Nux deserves better than to be compared to Dean Esmay. But yes, the irrational, violent, toxic masculinity and wilful blindness of the war boys does remind me of the MRAs.
David, did you run the image at the top through Deep Dream or something?
If we need to do an intervention, I can bring the hamster ball.