I found this graphic on the Men’s Rights subreddit, linked with the comment “[a]nd here is what I say to feminism.” (It was actually in the thread discussing this brilliant MRA comic.)
I’m sure the women of the world are heartbroken that men who think they are basically the equivalent of inanimate objects have “decided” to remain single.
Also, dudes, would it kill you to proofread your graphics?
I choose to believe that this meme maker is incapable of understanding metaphors and is in fact, complaining quite literally about the price of coathangers in whatever bizarre town he lives in where everyone has started manufacturing railroad spikes instead. And that the reason he’s single is because he now has no choice but to just leave his clothes all over the floor, where they get all wrinkly and dusty and no one wants to date him because he looks like a slob.
I retain more faith in humanity with this interpretation.
Looking a the coat hangers all I could hear was ‘no wire hangers’ from Mommie Dearest – but over all this did confuse me – you buy hangers at the department store so is he really say that in his ideal world you buy women at the women store?
Tanya – But in the past (before he was born and of which he only has second hand accounts amd nostalgia-coated conjecture) all of the coat hangers were the same – simple, pure, undemanding coathangers that did exactly as they were told and never spoke up or back.
ITALLMAKESSENSENOW
I have like 200 coat hangers in an old closet I’m not using. I’m fucking rich. So long, suckers.
@EJ – And you are the wind beneath my wings…
http://www.andpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Battle-of-Cute-Its-Flying-Kitties-Against-Flying-Puppies.png
I’m not understanding why the supply-demand analysis only applies on the demand side. Aren’t companies supposed to evolve in response to changes in the marketplace? If three out of four manufacturers are selling railroad spikes, doesn’t that mean railroad spikes are a hot commodity right now? Maybe three out of four people want their relationships to be train tracks that go someplace exciting, instead of stuffy closets for hiding booze, unused karate outfits, and skeletons.
As usual, MRA graphics leave me too be baffled to be offended
Give me a second here. I’m trying to find a gif that expresses my feelings towards this. A Metalocalypse one. It’s slightly more difficult to find a gif there because there’s drugs, alcohol and they’re all horrible human beings.
I miss Metalocalypse. Doomstar Requiem was years ago.
Yes, where were they?
Anyway, if you check the Reddit thread you can watch Piroko, the meme artiste himself, defends his thesis.
::dun dun dun duuuunnn::
The last two sentences are links to MGTOWs’ most favorite things. What’s happening, of course, is sexbots so he links to a Wikipedia entry for “Gynoid”. FYI, these assholes have turned androids “male”.
Whoever wrote this entry calls Blade Runner’s Rachael and Pris “gynoids” and therefore fails at life.
The last sentence links to a Captain “Cappy” Capitalism blog post called “the economics of Waifu” where he argues being “delusional” and having an imaginary anime girlfriend is more cost effective than pursuing and having a real girlfriend.
MGTOWs descend into self-parody at a dizzying speed.
Also all the gore. It’s difficult to find one with all the gore.
Found something better that describes everything:
Thank you Murderface for embodying what MRAs are before that term even existed.
Brooked,
Oh, that’s funny.
First of all, I’ve never once seen any feminist writings that pertain to this. I guess I was unaware that the point of feminism is sell sex. My silly lady brain thought it was about equal rights.
Second, wasn’t it just the other day that they were whining about how women just need to exist to get laid, unlike the poor oppressed men who have to use Ashley Madison to cheat on their wives? So, even if feminism was about sex being so easy to attain that we don’t have to spend our days boner pleasing to get it, then by the MRA’s own metric, we would not actually be wrong about that.
I mean, which is it? Are men going their own way because we’re too ugly to fuck or we evil vixens using the fact that any man will fuck anyone with a vagina to control the poor, poor menz? Because it can’t be both!
“I am single. Because I will not accept a product i don’t want, or shell out for a product that is overpriced.”
Ah that’s probably not true. I expect you’re single because you’re a f&cking twit.
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants – I think your point – this one:
Ha, now I’m messing up the blockquotes. Anyway, yes.
Pandapool, I appreciate your search for one lacking all the gore, yet adequately showing your reaction.
Quite considerate of you!
@contrapangloss
I like the challenge.
I would rather hang my coat on a railroad spike than a hanger…
But neither one of those things is a fucking human being!
What about all the feminists who like sex and are decidedly feminine? Like they wear dresses, get their nails done, and have long hair?
Oh, wait, I forgot: Your definition of “femininity” relies on women devoting their lives to men, not just appearances that please boners.
@epitome of incomprehensibility
Also an excellent point. I guess if you accept the idea that women = fungible goods and men = consumers, then you also have to accept that businesses = lazy 14 year olds who fell asleep in economics class. People behave like things, so it follows that things behave like people.
Who does in fact make coat hangers? They all do look pretty similar; especially the wire ones. Are there different manufacturers or just one, like zippers?
As usual, MRAs need to go to meme-writing class!
Really, when you think of it, if you’re going shopping for hangers, why would you even consider railroad spikes? And for that matter, hooks and nails are useful in their own way, but if you want a hanger, you wouldn’t be looking at those. Someone buying hangers might also be interested in hooks for other clothing items and nails for other purposes.
What I read into the meme is “I cannot appreciate the uses of things that I don’t want so I refuse to buy anything.” On a metaphorical level: “I cannot appreciate women as individuals so I’m going my own way.” To which I say, good riddance.
Is there an island of sad and confusing memes like in that children’s Christmas special? Maybe that island with all the snakes?
@Scarlettathena
I think this boils down to a common MRA thought error: “If I don’t want it, that must mean nobody wants it.”
Buttercup and Epitome,
I’m guessing the guy who made this subscribes to the gamergate model of economics. Businesses cater to the needs of cishet white men because free market. But businesses shouldn’t cater to other demographics, even if they make up a good share of the market because ethics!
The free market is only good when it’s doing what they want it to do.
Since they believe sex works like a market, it would make sense that they believe only their own whims would be or should be catered to.