So the fellas on the Men’s Rights subreddit are kicking up a shine about a post one of them found on the internet that treats them like the joke that they are.
You see, a blogger on real estate site Estately.com decided, out of sheer boredom, I imagine, to assemble a list of Each State’s Most Embarrassing Google Searches.
As you can see from the map above, the searches range from terrible music (for some reason, Maine residents feel a need to track down Nickelback lyrics) to assorted penis-size related concerns.
In Colorado, the search term that made Estately’s Ryan Nickum giggle the most was “Men’s Rights.”
Nickum notes in his post that Coloradans were also interested in learning more about Vape pens and Crocs (the ugly shoes). He concludes from this that
If you’re a man in Colorado wearing crocs and puffing on your vape pen you deserve to have your rights taken away.
Actually, that’s not quite fair. It’s not right to lump vaping and Crocs with Men’s Rights. Vaping is much better for you than smoking, and Crocs, while atrociously ugly, are at least comfortable (or so I’ve heard).
Naturally, Men’s Rights Redditors were outraged by this assault on their basic human rights.
![[–]Clockw0rk 42 points 18 hours ago The "article" makes things worse. Analysis: If you’re a man in Colorado wearing crocs and puffing on your vape pen you deserve to have your rights taken away Oh really? Let's flip the details. If you're a woman in Wisconsin wearing open toed shoes and drinking flavored malt beverages, you deserve to have your rights taken away. Hmmm.. No, that still seems like a monstrous overreach that would have the writer fired before the end of the day. I mean, if we were talking about women's rights. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]baskandpurr 13 points 17 hours ago Easier than that. Searching for women's rights would be great and make you a wonderful person. Searching for men's right is embarrassing and makes you offensive. You consider the idea that 50% of humanity should maybe have better rights and that makes you evil.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mensrightembarrassing.png?resize=482%2C445&ssl=1)
Poor babies.
Maybe the reason everyone sees you as a joke is because most people realize that men not only already have rights but also have innumerable privileges as a gender?
Or that they realize the Men’s Rights movement has accomplished literally nothing of value over the past five years of its existence? That MRAs in the US haven’t built a single shelter for men, or even set up a phone hotline?
That MRA’s virtually ignore the real issues facing young men of color in our country, from police shootings and gun violence to a misguided drug war that has left an unprecedented number of young black men behind bars.
That instead of actually doing anything about anything they would rather circle-jerk about spermjacking and friend-zoning and the alleged evils of assorted rape prevention campaigns.
Fellas: People treat you like a joke because you are a joke.
In the thread complaining about Nickum’s map, the only “accomplishment” any of the Men’s Rights redditors thought to mention was the fact that people are more aware of Men’s Rights activists than they were a few years ago. And I have to admit that this is true.
Congratulations, fellas, you’ve managed to successfully annoy the world with your stupid complaints, so much so that numerous sites are taking down their comments so they won’t have to deal with irritating abusive babies like you any more.
And you’ve given me an excuse to post this:
What’s Four Loco?
I’d Google it but I don’t know which state I’d have to do it from.
Four Loko is still a thing, kinda, it’s now just terrible tasting “fruit” flavored malt liquor (rather than terrible tasting highly caffeinated “fruit” flavored malt liquor).
@Alan
Red Bull and beer, basically.
Vermont’s in its own special time warp. It’s the quaintness factor.
Ninja’d!
The scientist in me feels a bit doubtful about the trustworthiness of this article. Obviously it’s from an estate website, so figures they want something to attract attention. What better to attract attention than to say “hey, what is YOUR state’s most embarrassing search request?” leaving out the data, sources, and most likely the fact that these search requests are only -marginally- more requested in particular states. Not enough to really draw conclusions from.
But hey. It’s a fun little game to play. And it gets MRAs’ knickers in a twist, what a bonus.
In Colorado’s defense, I’m a feminist women, and I have Googled ‘men’s rights’ a time or two. So it may mean the people in Colorado have an above-average curiosity about the MRA phenomenon, as opposed to being MRAs. That being said, I grew weary of dating years ago; encountered too many entitled men. It’s more fun spending the evenings with my cats and Skyrim. But that entitlement mentality could be a problem everywhere in this country, so I don’t know that Colorado is worse than the other states.
Larry, if you’re still here, you should be thankful to David for giving you a helpful push toward Going Your Own Way. Trolling women and white knights for attention is not conducive to your goal.
@Fnoicby If your Crocs are on your hands, I think you’re wearing them wrong.
So, googling internet addiction is my state’s secret shame? Never thought Colorado would be more embarassing.
So much for those balls.
@LeeshaJoy, touché
Haha, let’s see if that html comes through for us…was a “preview comment” mentioned in the ideas for the redone site?
Where I come from plenty of people do manage to wear them in a sort of hippie-chic stylish manner. Or so I tell myself 🙂
Your cats don’t do this?
http://www.funcatpictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/funny-cats-can-in-crocs.jpg
So Larry seems to think that broadly speaking women control men. And this is exactly what “Men’s Rights” is as embarrassing as “Nickleback lyrics” and “Penis enlargement” as a google search.
In other news I think I’m going to buy a billboard near my house saying NO BIGFOOT IS NOT REAL. Also I’m going to avoid Wyoming, Georgia, Utah, and Ohio for the foreseeable future.
I have to thank the originators of this pointless survey for prodding me into finally finding out what “bronies” are. It’s a very thank youI feel I owe, as the information is of not conceiveable practical use and is not really at all interesting or even funny, but such as it is, I am glad to pay it!
Over the past two years or so, I’ve become pretty well convinced that this state actually exists in a universe very closely parallel to the rest of the USA.
I still don’t know why we’re apparently looking up “Four Loko”, but then that might partially be because I’d never heard of it before just now.
…tiny thank you, that should read.
This talk about “Four Loko” has reminded me of when Jamaican artists about a decade ago used to sing about “Red Bull & Guinness”. I never knew whether you were supposed to drink Red Bull first and Guinness afterwards, or the other way around, or mix them together (in what proportions?). I eventually tried mixing them together 50/50, and it was just terrible, so I concluded that couldn’t be what they meant. But now after hearing about Four Loko I don’t know what to think anymore.
@katz
Haha! The cats aren’t really allowed anywhere near my crocs (I either wear them, or keep them in the bed room where they can’t be reached by cats), but my girlcat likes to roll all over shoes, including crocs.
I blinked, and Larry disappeared!
He must be from New York, and have actually completed some of these mysterious “Magic Lessons”.
(That is joking. I am not serious. Larry is probably not from New York… but he could be!)
Really curious on their methodology for this. I tried to find it on the actual article and did not. I know that other sites who have made similar maps use Google trend information to create this list based on pre-selected list of terms. So not even close to a true top ten. Was this similar?
To my knowledge, Google does not provide state breakdown of top search terms without typing in a specific search term itself.
OTOH – I am for anything that shines light on how horrible MRAs are. So I’m cool with a biased map.
Well obviously; it’s just a silly joke and meaningless from a scientific perspective. Looking at the image I would have guessed they just made it up.
Oh Maryland… now you’ve made me sad.
Aww, I missed the happy funtime that was Leisure Suit Larry (thus named because it is more interesting than his screen name) oh well. Nothing of value was lost.
What’s embarrassing about eyebrow piercings?
And the WWE isn’t fake, Illinois, it’s “kayfabe” 😉