So the fellas on the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit are trying their hands at humor. It’s not going very well for them.
Here they try a variation on the old “so-and-so walks into a bar” formula, with Jessica Valenti and Anita Sarkeesian replacing the usual rabbis and priests. (I also make an appearance.) Here they attempt a MGTOW version of Jeff Foxworthy’s “you know you’re a redneck when …” schtick.
But their grandest failure in the humor department is this … thing, which even the regular MGTOWs couldn’t bring themselves to upvote. I present it in its entirety, because what the fucking fuck:
Bah-dump tssh?
uhhhh….lol?
This reads like a joke written by a computer that’s been fed a dictionary of MRA talking points.
What is that supposed to represent?
I don’t even want to know but whats MGHOW stand for
That punch-line is a complete non-sequitur if there ever was one.
The whole thing reads like an in-joke that only makes sense to those who “get” the references – though I’d argue that makes it a bad joke, because it requires the listener to understand all these talking points and (il)logic used by MRAs, Red Pillers, and MGTOW before hearing the set-up.
Even then it doesn’t really work on its own because how does an argument over taxation on a desert island (um, what?) lead to someone asking questions about oral sex for a college thesis? They may as well told a joke that went like this:
“Why did the chicken cross the road? Orange-ya glad I didn’t say ‘banana’!?”
Maybe it’s an attempt at Dadaist humor?
Wow, that was pretty pathetic. But honestly, I wouldn’t expect much better. Good humor generally comes from a place of wanting to entertain people, or to point out an actual issue to people in a way that will get their attention. These guys are just trying to show off to their peers and get back at the feminists for hurting their feelings, so the end result is a rushed, badly put together wreck of a joke with no punchline-unless you count ‘MGTOWs are awesome and everyone else sucks’. Not to mention drenched in their negativity and cynicism.
I don’t get it?
Wouldn’t the feminist just bash him with a rock also?
But how did he get into Harvard?
Perhaps if read in this style it might have a chance at being amusing.
Who am I kidding, nothing could save that “joke.”
Well, I did laugh…
@ davidknewton – This! I think the OP just failed a Turing test.
Well, it ends with the “MGHOW” begging for sex, so that’s true enough…
A sense of humor requires:
1) A certain degree of self-awareness
2) The ability to laugh at one’s own foibles
Neither of which these pathetic losers possess.
But then who was phone?
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jlok.gif
It just doesn’t make sense all around.
“He goes up to feminist”.
Even on a goddamned desert island the MGHOW is STILL unable to go his own fucking way already!!!!!!!!!
MGTOWs, seriously…. GET LOST!!!
There’s a pretty good reason that it would be quite rare for women to be satisfied receiving fellatio.
Virtually – yes, exactly – I thought the punchline was going to be something to do with the man GHOW and the feminist starving to death,because of course women have never found any food anywhere and have not sustained the community with 80% of caloric needs by gathering.
I mean, I get it.
But it doesn’t make sense.
BRAIN BLEACH! NOW!
Warner Herzog voice: “A child walks up to his parents. In a proud, excited voice, he shouts at the top of his lungs. The word, a child’s plaything, yet adult and perverse in context. The word is “BALLS”. The child giggles to himself.
He does not know it, but he has reached the peak of his comedic career. For years afterword, he would try his hand again at comedy. Yet never would he again achieve the lofty heights, set as a small boy.”
Well.
That was a special kind of terrible.