Jennifer Lawrence is, in case you didn’t know this already, an incredible goofball, almost as famous for her hilariously unfiltered comments as she is for her film roles.
“If I don’t have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on,” she once confessed to Glamour. “I’m the fastest pee-er ever,” she told Rolling Stone. She’s compared her dancing ability to “Gumby getting electrocuted.” She’s talked about diarrhea on David Letterman.
A quick Google search reveals scores of web pages with titles like 61 Hilariously Honest Jennifer Lawrence Quotes That Will Make Your Day, from which I took the example above, and The 10 Most Jennifer Lawrence Things J-Law Said at Comic-Con.
But now she’s said something so unbelievable, something so outrageous and terrible that it has Men’s Rights activists in an uproar.
Brace yourself. In an interview with Vogue, Lawrence confessed that she’s been having trouble finding a boyfriend.
I am lonely every Saturday night. Guys are so mean to me. I know where it’s coming from, I know they’re trying to establish dominance, but it hurts my feelings. I’m just a girl who wants you to be nice to me. I am straight as an arrow. I feel like I need to meet a guy, with all due respect, who has been living in Baghdad for five years who has no idea who I am.
Well, to the Men’s Rightsers of the world, this is apparently the equivalent of someone announcing that in their spare time they like to dress up as a Nazi and murder puppies. How DARE a famous actress — whose stolen nude pics they’ve undoubtedly all seen — complain that men have been “mean” to her.
A Men’s Rights Redditor calling himself Ovendice took it upon himself to explain to J-Law just why men are mean to women. (SPOILER ALERT: It’s because women are terrible.)
I don’t doubt men are [mean] as fuck to her. For about the last ten years I have become more and more mean and cold to women in general and today I pretty much talk to them all like they’re garbage, idiots and less than nothing. I’m short with them, have zero patience and at best I’m indifferent.
Hmm. I’m thinking that “indifferent” is not exactly the right word to describe how you feel about women. But why are you so mean to women, dear Redditor?
WHY? I’ll TELL YOU WHY. Most women have become so unbelievably arrogant, so SMUG, cold as a razor blade, zero empathy, creepy, virtually inhuman, a lot of them just seem like emotionless robots, the only time I see women today acting human in the movies, as well as spiteful and CONFRONTATIONAL out of nowhere INSTANTLY!
Huh. That seems like an awfully confrontational thing for a guy complaining about women being confrontational to say.
[Women] go out of their way to TRY to hurt your feelings and another huge percentage of them will lead you on a little ONLY JUST so they can later, not just reject you, but shit all over you like you’re some kind of idiot for even thinking there was a chance with them and women get a HUGE amount of ENJOYMENT out of rejecting men and saying ‘no’ – they GET OFF on it, the bizarre behavior, the FLAKINESS, complete unaccountability, zero character, entitlement, the ‘fuck you’ attitude, the snide cattiness, the threats, trying to get fired from your job if you defy them, trying to act like they have God like power over you, the false accusations, the ‘superior’ attitude when their contribution to the world is less than nothing, the complete, absolute IGNORANCE OF EVERYTHING.
That was all one sentence.
I could go on ALL DAY listing why American women are so horrendous and why I wouldn’t want to be kind to them or even want to lift one finger to do anything for them.
I’m sure you could go on all day. I’m guessing you regularly do.
I can’t even think of the last time a female did ANYTHING for me at all. It’s prob been decades. I don’t owe women one motherfucking thing and with the way they are, that includes kindness and graciousness.
Gosh, why wouldn’t a woman — sorry, a “female” — want to do nice things for prickly here?
Another Men’s Rightser suggested that J-Law’s problem was that she didn’t want to date a “regular guy.”
She’s hanging around the crowd of wealthy, extremely good looking guys, who can have basically any woman they want. If they hear excessive whining, well if you have an option to upgrade (in their opinion) to another woman, well being a wealthy good-looking man, of course they have that option and of course they’ll upgrade. She should give a regular guy a go.
He graciously offered to be that regular guy. So long as he got to divorce her later and take a good chunk of her sweet, sweet cash.
I can pretend to be that Baghdad guy she’s searching for. Hopefully I won’t sign any prenups, last long enough and get a fat piece of her stash when things go south. Then she’ll be equal to men in that regard.
Still another commenter suggested some real-world activism MRAs could do to solve the problem of women wanting men to treat them like actual human beings.
Haha. I love it.. lets stop holding doors and being kind to females like we were taught to do..and wait until they get upset and then we get the power back.
It’s good to know that there are such dedicated Men’s Rights Activists out there doing their best to bring about a better world. As Lao Tzu once observed, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single unheld door, because fuck you, bitches, especially that one from Hunger Games, I hate her, she’s so stuck up!”
H/T — r/AgainstMensRights
But, but, but……they’ve been dissing women for years for *only* wanting, jerks, bad boys and serial killers. Now they’re mad when one wants a nice guy?
I’m glad to know J-law is a goof because I don’t know much about her. She seems delightful. But that preface was hardly needed for the very sane down to earth comments that followed.
Hehehehehe.
Is ‘cold as a razor blade’ a thing people say?
Not unless you’re an EdgY Internet warrior like Ovendice is.
Wow. They think women- wait, sorry, FEMALES, are going to notice when Prickly McScowl doesn’t hold the door for them?
I for one probably wouldn’t notice, and if I did I would be relieved. I wouldn’t want to owe a guy like that anything, and if he held a door for me I might (at least in his twisted little mind).
These guys are just so hateful. I am sad to think writing this shit is all they have to look forward to.
Expecting consistency will only make your head go all explodey.
It’s really just all about the hate no matter what a “feeemale” is saying or doing. (And why do they all talk like the Ferengis from Star Trek DS9?)
Yeah, funny how all the “I’m a nice guy!” guys aren’t all going “Great, I can date JLaw!” It’s almost like they know they’re not actually nice.
This just reaffirms my belief that the pimply-faced rodents who scurry around the manosphere are the least self-aware things on the internet.
All I hear is
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, my preconceived notion of women are being challenged”
and
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAH, this woman isn’t acting the way women should act! She isn’t being attracted to guys that she’s supposed to be attracted to”
They are fuming mad because they are trying so hard to be ‘alphas’ in order to attract a woman (or bitter because they tried that and failed). They’ve built a whole identity on the preconceived notions they hold about women, so evidence that challenges their assumption makes their whole world crumble.
Also, Jennifer Lawrence is just awesome. I hope she continues to be awesome and finds an awesome guy (as opposed to a ‘Nice Guy’) to date.
MRA: Women like mean men!
Woman: I don’t like mean men.
MRA: Women are also liars!
Jennifer Lawrence is probably the only celebrity crush I’ve ever had. She’s so funny, weird and smart.
I could show him smug. LOL. Guys like that make me want to troll the manosphere again. I’m tempted go with Naughty this year.
I was relieved to see some people on that thread saying to Ovendice things like “whoa, calm the fuck down, dude.” But it’s alarming that he claims his company won’t hire women and lies about it. Not that I’d want to work with him, but it’s a smoking gun that his company practices job discrimination and therefore women are dead right when they say they’re being discriminated against.
Oh no! Anything but stop holding doors open! Whatever will women do, seeing as how every last one is physically incapable of opening a door? Why, feminism would collapse within hours!
So, Emma Watson was evil last year for dating a jerk. Well, a guy they perceive to be a jerk for no other reason than that he’s an athlete. This year J Law is evil for wanting to date someone nice. That sounds like an MRA opinion all right.
Or women just reject you because you’re repulsive, angry, and creepy?
I can translate this one I think. He harasses is female coworkers. They first try the soft no, hoping he’ll get the hint. He doesn’t get the hint and continues or even steps up the harassment. They finally report him and he gets written up or fired. In MRA land, this makes a woman an uppity false accusing tease.
How dare women not just automatically accept that we’re inferior, useless bitches and bow down in deference to this clearly rational and superior being? Just look at the way he writes. Everyone knows that random capitalizations and run on sentences are the true mark of manlojikal supremacy.
Moocow, dhag85, you made me laugh. Kudos.
@magnesium: It’s a line from One Of My Turns by Pink Floyd. I don’t know if the redpillians meant it to refer to that song or not; but either way it’s a strangely appropriate reference, seeing as it’s a song about spousal abuse.
Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum.
Run to the bedroom,
In the suitcase on the left
You’ll find my favorite axe.
Don’t look so frightened
This is just a passing phase,
One of my bad days.
Would you like to watch T.V.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would’ya?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it’s time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
And can I just point out that I freaking *hate* having doors held open for me unnecessarily. It’s so rarely done by someone being nice. No one ever seems to hold doors for me when I have my hands full and could use an assist, nope, it’s always some dude who expects that I will give him some time and attention because he performed this arduous task for me.
@WWTH:
Thanks for that translation. It just sounded like, to use a Tolkienism, the twittering of the birds and braying of the beasts; but having read your translation it suddenly makes sense.
Ugh.
That man badly needs to get the fuck out of my gender. Like, now. Stat. Pack his shit and leave.
I wonder how these men interact with women at work.
(Actually, I’m wondering how they found jobs with zero women coworkers.)
Assuming he meant to type “is in the movies,” I find that this statement is really revealing about the way MRAs view women. How often do women point out that we’re underrepresented in the movies and all too often female characters are completely one dimensional and only exist in relation to the male characters?
This guy isn’t mad that we aren’t acting like humans. He’s mad that we are human beings with our own opinions and quirks and flaws. He’s angry that women in reality don’t fit neatly into a girlfriend, whore or mother box.
Well aren’t you just a ray of fucking sunshine?
Effect, meet cause. Women aren’t nice to you and won’t fuck you? Treat them like shit solely based on the fact that they’re women to make sure they never come near you again!
“Women snapped at me after I wouldn’t take their hints to just go away! And now women don’t like me because I think they’re all vile evil harpies, and instead of realizing that if I maybe acted like less of a smug piece of shit that women would treat me better, I’m going to show that I have the emotional maturity of a three-year-old and just be mean right back, because they’re all mean and nasty to me because they don’t act the way I want them to and accept that I’m their overlord and I deserve to fuck them! How dare you feeemales think you deserve the right to reject me!”
“This one time, this woman told me she didn’t want to date me, but I thought it was one of those ‘shit-test’ things, so I kept asking her and asking her, and eventually just had to spell it out for me, and I felt so led on! She must have got off on finally telling me she wanted nothing to do with me romantically or sexually, because she looked really frustrated and scared! And she didn’t even say ‘sorry’ for hurting my precious fee-fees! Women don’t know anything, and I’ve never read a history book!”
I could go on, but this guy goes right into “I might shoot up a school” territory super quick with that bit, and it’s honestly kind of terrifying the level of vindictiveness he pours into talking about these percieved slights.
He just sounds so bitter, and instead of getting over it, he just blames everything on women everywhere, and assumes that it’s all our fault and never once questions anything he does.
@ashley
Do it! Then tell us about it, I’ll get the popcorn 😀
@WWTH
Nicely spotted. I think it’s extremely telling, and shows the pervasiveness of how stereotypes in media are harmful and lead to sexist behavior and attitudes (which Gators seem so committed to denying).
I’ll also admit that I’ve totally been guilty of doing “the grand gesture” in the hopes of ‘winning over her affection’ after we had a falling out because I saw it so much in movies. Naturally, all it did was make me look immensely creepy and I vowed never to do that (or take dating advice from movies) ever again.
If we had more movies/TV shows written by women, I think that would do a lot to curb sexism. Cracked actually just had an article on this topic today:
http://www.cracked.com/article_23090_the-5-weirdest-ways-tv-still-crazy-sexist.html
This.
He’s angry that our humanity makes us human, and he doesn’t know how to deal with that.
Behold! The Manosphere Double Period: Punctuation Going Its Own Way.
A unique combination of “I can’t finish a thought/construct a complete sentence, so I just let what I say trail off into nothingness” and “I don’t know how punctuation works.”