Well, it seems that some of the good folks on the Men’s Rights subreddit have taken issue with my post this morning congratulating them on their massive victory in brigading their preferred definition of “MRA” into the top spot on Urban Dictionary. Apparently they think I was trying to brigade their victory away from them.
Let’s take a look at some of their specific complaints, shall we?
The lovely fellow who calls himself ThePigmen brings up the important issue of me being a “walking shit-stain,” makes an irrelevant pedantic point, and accuses me of running ads I’ve never actually seen on my own site, perhaps because at least some of the ads are tailored to user profiles.
Right now the top ad I see on this site is one tailored to “xfinity customers like you,” and I am in fact an xfinity customer, for better or worse.
Whelponry notes that my last name sounds like a naughty thing in French, sort of.
Touche!
Another commenter isn’t quite sure who I am, and decides to simply presume the worst.
![Lethn 3 points 8 hours ago I don't even know who this guy is? I presume he's another moron who thinks it's okay to harass and attack people that disagree with him? permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]Leinadro 4 points 8 hours ago Yes but to be specific he is a morom that thinks its okay its to harass and attack mras. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]HotSauciness 2 points 6 hours ago he's a very anti-MRA feminist. He's very popular on AgainstMensRights, I think he even posts there sometimes.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/presume.png?resize=502%2C294&ssl=1)
Remember, when you presume you make a pres of u and me!
There is the obligatory wall-of-text-so-big-I-had-to-make-two-screenshots-and-smush-them-together suggesting that no woman would ever touch me and that I am basically like the Ku Klux Klan, if you think about it.
One commenter notes that the central premise of the Men’s Rights post — that I sent my “wolf pack” out to brigade the Urban Dictionary definition of MRA — is not actually true. They get downvoted.
![tiqr -3 points 8 hours ago Nothing in that article encourages people to brigade urban dictionary. It just mocks this subreddit for doing it. permalinkembedsavereportgive goldreply [–]blueoak9 4 points 8 hours ago Actually Futurelle's groupies hardly have to be told anymore to brigade; he just points out targets and the wolf packs go into action. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]tiqr 1 point 8 hours ago That may happen, but it's unfair to accuse him of brigading when there isn't even subtle encouragement in his article. Especially when this sub pretty blatantly engaged in overt "brigading" (activism?) of the same nature. Not that I disagree with the definition as it stands. The other definitions below it are really childish. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]garglemesh42 1 point 6 hours ago Perhaps you don't know how batshit insane he and his followers are. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]blueoak9 1 point 6 hours ago* but it's unfair to accuse him of brigading when there isn't even subtle encouragement in his article. He trained them in brigading. He no longer has to explicitly deploy them. That's the only difference. He is not innocent here.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/brigade.png?resize=502%2C617&ssl=1)
Wow. Apparently the Battle of Urban Dictionary is much more important to these folks than I even realized.
If you ever wonder why I turn down offers to debate with MRAs, this is why: they would totally win!
Also, quick note to the wolf pack: CODE 4 RED “THEY KNOW” PROTOCOL 2.6 YANKEE HOTEL MARCOTTE
Leaving aside the incredible offensiveness and insensitivity the comment or shows by comparing the “plight” of men today with slavery, if David was indeed the equivalent to a House Negro, then he wouldn’t be in the KKK. The KKK doesn’t let black people join, not even ones that are arguably sympathetic to “the cause”.
What does he have against bards, harpists and lute players, anyway?
Catalpa,
Wait.
The Chappelle show isn’t a documentary?
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Somewhat OT: I learned a new word today: brigade as a verb instead of a noun. In the spirit of the last two posts, I went to Urban Dictionary to see if they had a useful definition. They did not, so I had to had to fall back on google:
bri·gade • briˈɡād/
verb
rare. form into a brigade.
Who knew I’d expand my vocabulary reading WHTM?
Well, technically David is a business of ferrets in a human suit.
As evidenced by this footage of David with his David suit off:
I don’t know why he bothers with the human suit, I mean, being the business of ferrets au natural is adorable! And pouncy-bouncy!
So, no woman will sleep with Dave futrelle. And MRAS have to trick women into sleeping with them, or dodge consent, to get women to sleep with them.
So, in theory, doesn’t that make Dave an oppressed guy that no one will sleep with? Just like the MRAS? Why don’t they want to help Dave get laid?
Why don’t they want to help dave, since he is just a wayward victimized male that can’t get laid? Don’t they want to help free him from the evil feminists, so that he can get some ass?
*I am absolutely sure you do ok with women, Dave futrelle. Seems like MRAS would want to save you, though.*
Also, am I supposed to be receiving benefits from being employed in the wolf pack? Someone owes me a paycheck! Pay me for my activism!!!!!!
Frootloopsie said:
“You complaining about people harassing you is like a bully beating up a kid and the kid tells him to stop and the bully replies stop harassing me.”
Best analogy ever.
That’s a good working definition but it doesn’t capture some of the nuances.
On Reddit, every comment and article has an “upvote” and a “downvote” button that readers can click on. There’s a large segment of Reddit users that are hyper-sensitive to the downvote button being clicked. If you merely hover your mouse cursor over it, then they’ll somehow be able to sense that and it will cause them immense physical pain.
“Brigading” is when people from Message Board A read a message that tells them to go to Message Board B and click the downvote button on a particular article or set of comments . This is considered an especially cruel form of torture, and you can get banned from Reddit for doing it.
The best way to think about “brigading” is that it’s sort of like a war crime, only it takes place on the Internet. When you understand that, you can see that the /r/MensRights reaction is pretty much what’s to be expected.
Urban Dictionary: “MRAs are whiny, pedantic assholes.”
MRAs: “THAT DESCRIPTION IS INCREDIBLY INACCURATE AND ALSO HURTS MY FEELINGS THEY’RE BEING MEAN TO ME”
My children’s book of the women’s suffrage movement explained that suffragist was the American term and suffragette was more the British term. This may or may not have been derogatory. It may have been part of the wider British fancifying of occupational nouns for women (which also may or may not have been derogatory). When I arrived in the UK almost 20 years ago, women with management roles were still being called manageresses. I thought this was a very clever (read stupid and silly) way of turning a gender neutral occupational noun into a gendered one and making manager default male. This seems to be largely fading from use, thank goodness.
While I appreciate the fact that they seem to (at least intuitivly) that “real men” should be able to have feelings, the whole whining gets a little tiresome after a while. Honestly, who would think of as a “real man”, if all he did was whining about how bad people are who make fun of them. I would call them children, but most children are neither that stupid not that socially inept.
However, I’d be rather curious to see what these blokes think is the difference between suffragist and suffragette.
On a side note, I have a teeny bit of sympathy with their pain. My colleagues and I made up and then submitted a word to urban dictionary. We didn’t even make the submission cut. It stung more than I thought it would.
Maybe I don’t understand the internet, but how is what they did not ALSO “brigading”? (I assume they encouraged them somewhere to upvote the “correct” definition?) Or is it only not allowed if they think someone else is doing it?
“I don’t think Dave has any delusions that any woman would ever want to sleep with him”
Because, of course, ALL men are obsessed by sex and cry “FRIENDZONE” or “FEMINAZI” whenever a woman tells them they’re not interested! Men who act nice out of pure kindness don’t exist! *sarcasm*
David Futrelle, the world needs more people like you! May I hug you?
Augh! All of the definitions that I saw were terrible.
I brigaded UD so hard that I haven’t even bothered to go over there and read their stupid little definition. If it gets down voted away I expect it’ll be the regular readers of UD who do it rather than SJWs. Though according to Paul Elam, the definition of SJW is anyone who disagrees with an MRA.
Maybe the anger over the interchanging of the terms ‘suffragist’ and ‘suffragette’ are because the first is gender neutral and implies votes for everyone, while suffragette is specifically associated with votes for women. Plus we know how these guys take anything that sounds feminine as an insult.
Okay, I DID go check out UD. This is currently the top definition of MRA:
‘Acronym for a group called Men’s Rights Activists.
I.E. – A bunch of whiny pedantic morons that think there is some vast Illuminati feminist conspiracy while seemingly ignoring the fact that their own gender runs the majority of the world.
– Hey, you hear about that guy in Marketing that complains about his ex-wife all the time?
— Yeah, I heard that he just got a raise and tried to take his ex to court to reduce his child support.
– Jeez, what a MRA.’
So that victory was short lived. The first favorable definition is at number 5, those misters had better get back to their upvoting and stop whinging about David.
I didn’t even think to go over there and vote after David’s first post, but after reading their whinging, I did. Urban Dictionary is looking slick these days. I haven’t been there since the redesign.
Been looking forward to having a big bowl of Special K cereal all morning, and now I just realized I accidentally bought the “red berries” version. I usually like strawberries and raspberries, but these bits of “berry” just taste terrible. Terrible! My breakfast, and thus my day, has been ruined.
David, can you send your wolfpack to Kellogg’s next? Tell them these berries aren’t berries at all. I am so upset.
But at least these guys in the OP are having an even worse day. 🙂
He he, seem David has got us all brainwashed!!! We are automatons who do his bidding that must be subliminally hid in the text of his blogs. 🙂 Just imagine if we could read his blogs backwards what we’d read!
Mari further up in the comments makes some great points!
“Seems” it should read.
@dhag85 – I, for one, prefer the Red Berries version and do not mind the, admittedly odd, freeze dried berries. I shall not be brainwashed into the wolf pack for that! 😉
Though I did upvote the other definitions of MRA and downvote the MRA one. 🙂
If applying an ice pack to your food makes it colder, will applying a wolf pack to it make it more lupine?
Announcer: “New Kellogg’s Special K. Now with 40% more wolves!”
Scene: An unnaturally large, brilliant white kitchen.
A glamorous model sits down, her red jacket draped prominently over the chair back, and pours out a box of Special K. Instead of cereal, however, out come a pack of wolves which devour the model messily.
As the wolves sit upon the torn, blood-splattered wreckage of the kitchen and begin to howl, cut to a graphic of the cereal box.
Announcer: “Start your day the right way!”