In yet another stunning victory for their cause, Men’s Rights Activists have successfully infiltrated the comments of yet another article critical of them, leading possibly dozens of comment readers to mutter to themselves “Jesus Christ these guys again, honestly do they do anything else besides post this crap?”
This time, the target of the Men’s Rights raiders was an article on the website of GQ’s British Edition with the self-explanatory title “Men’s Rights Activists are cave dwelling idiots.”
Naturally, the comments from the MRA invaders tended to rather prove the author’s point, with regard to cave-dwelling idiocy.
There were accusations of gender treason:
Bog-standard predictions of feminism’s impending demise:
Unique takes on women’s history:
Tampon jokes:
“Retard” used as an insult:
Awkward turkey-related metaphors:
And of course, Paul Elam:
I should note that GQ seems to be moderating the comments fairly strictly; several I was intending to quote vanished before I grabbed a screenshot. I can only imagine what the rest of the moderated comments look like.
I should also note that Mr. Elam was so offended by the GQ article that he went and made a video about it.
In it the angry Elam, occasionally sounding like one of the storytellers on Drunk History, denounces the article as “lickspittle journalism,” describes its author, Rupert Myers, as looking “kinda like Alfred E. Neuman with liver disease,” defends the infamous AVFM article in which he referred to Bill Cosby’s accusers as “a bunch of drug whoring star [expletive deleted]” and makes the preposterous charge that it is Myers who is the true misogynist for criticizing his Cosby article because this means that Myers thinks that, as Elam puts it,
talking honestly about the reality of drug whoring star [expletive deleted]s is hostile to all women.
You may have to run that through your head a few times until it makes any kind of sense, because it really doesn’t.
Elam then declares Myers to be a “misogynist little [expletive deleted].“
WINNING!
H/T — @idlediletante
@ SFHC & Newt
Yeah, over here ‘methinks’ tends to be used when someone wants to impart mild scepticism or amusement. It’s the verbal equivalent of a wry smile or a quizzically raised eyebrow. Presumably that reflects the “protest too much” legacy.
It never fails to amuse the shit out of me how manospherians think Anita Sarkeesian controls the feminist hivemind and we get all our thinking from her. Most of us didn’t even know who she was until a couple of years ago. I guess it’s projection. Again. They can’t think for themselves and get all their ideology from their websites so they assume we must all get our ideas from whoever the internet feminist boogeywoman of the moment is.
And to continue the freaky weather conversation from one of the other threads, it’s December fracking 23rd and it’s raining. In Minnesota! Not snowing. Raining. The fuck?
It’s nice to not have snow on the ground though.
Watched the Elam video. What a loathsome man. I find it interesting that he and others are going to town on attacking Myers’ writing style. Myers is a better writer than anyone on AVfM. Were they trying to distract from what he was actually saying?
@WWTH-Same thing in my neck of the woods. So much for a picture book New England holiday 🙂
You’re like the Easter Bunny voting for Halloween candy on Labor Day!
Or the Apis Bull voting for Pharoe’s birthday?
The only thing growing in the MRM is volume.
Just seconding EJ – Paul Elam’s appearance could never be as disgusting as his ideas. I’d hate to see us attack them in the way they attack us.
Also I am enjoying the “Random Posts” section on the side. The title America: Land of Soulless Hamster Wusses has really inspired me today.
Sorry to go completely off topic, but I just had to share my dog’s 8th consecutive Christmas bath. We celebrate here tomorrow and now he smells like almonds.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w35/Gaian87/Dog_zpsm7sf3nuy.jpg?t=1450804384
@ Leda
Aww, that’s so cute.
Of course give him 10 minutes and no doubt he’ll be rolling in fox poo. That’s like doggy Chanel #5!
@ Alan
Thanks!
Eau de Toilette is strictly forbidden until Christmas day when he’s done meeting the family. I’ve told him poo-rolling results to shaving.
Haha, as if! Dog the overlord will decide when an where he will roll. -_-
@WWTH
I went home to visit my family in France, and it’s actually so warm that some strawberries are starting to ripen, in late December!
Aww, sweet dog. Mine just came in from the rain and I towel-dried her, which she actually enjoys.
I’m in Alabama, and it’s raining. Ugly rain is normal here this time of year. But, we also have warnings of possible tornadoes, which is NOT normal this time of year.
(One year my Midwest in-laws decided to go to Daulphin Island in AL. for bird-watching, and were careful to avoid hurricane season. But they forgot all about tornado season, and wound up having to take shelter in a church in Mississippi. They were traveling with two puppies too!)
If there’s something disgusting on the route on which I take my dog for walks, she zeros in and literally drags me towards whatever is luring her in with its repulsive smell and proceeds to pretend like she’s doing her normal circle, circle, reverse circle and pee ritual so she can roll around in whatever it is. Dead things, liquid-ish-stuff-with-chunks-from-containers-that-leaked-out-from-the-trash, poop from dogs and other animal species…curiously my dog did not give more than a cursory sniff to the used ladies shark week product that was randomly left in the bushes next to the trash dumpster (I’m seriously wondering if a neighbor or some lady wandering by just….”hey, here’s as good a place to leave this thing as any….” because the bin was right next to those bushes, even if it fell out of a trash bag couldn’t they manage to get it to the bin!?)
Dog hates bath. And teeth brushing. I keep explaining to her that if she didn’t roll in disgusting stinky stuff and didn’t eat gross things off the ground, she wouldn’t have to get a bath as much and I’d let her lick my face without first brushing her teefs. We’re at an impasse due to the language barrier, though it seems like she may have learned to read minds, at least when I’m thinking that it’s time to wash her stinky doggy self again, she needs to practice hiding in better places where her butt will fit with the rest of her. Wiggly dog butt and tail always gives her away. 😉
@Peaches
Another towel fan here! Brushing’s another gem.
@msexceptiontotherule
Dogs are sneaky! Mine pretends to poo or summat so he’ll have extra time to check out a spot if it needs rolling in or licking (male dogs eat EVERYTHING). I remember one nightmarish time he rolled in human poo. How do I know? Wild animals hardly ever use paper. Also, the smell. Oh Zeus the smell. Standing in the lift with him was the day my nose died.
Here in Southern Finland another Christmas with no snow. And so much rain. I’m not missing the ice though. I remember some -20 celcius or one year even -30 weather with slippery ice and after the third fall and a frost-bitten nose it stops being funny.
“Ha! Good on GQ UK. ”
Yep. They seem to be going hard in the paint with MRAs. Reggie Yates of the BBC series “Extreme” recently did a documentary featuring Roosh (he goes to his home where Roosh tries to back peddle on his ‘legalization of rape in her own home’ theory, and to his London ‘seminar’), MRAs, Manosphere, MGTOW, Milo, etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039trtw
Just to add to the weather discussion, I’m on the Gold Coast, Australia, and it’s bloody raining here too! I think there’s a conspiracy…
But yes, middle of summer, supposed to be hot, sunny, and awesome, and instead it’s hot, cloudy, and wet. Less awesome. So much frizzy hair. I look like tropical Monica from Friends.
The sad thing is, there are issues that only or disproportionately affect men. And if Paul Elam was the least bit interested in those issues, he’d be promoting Movember and Decembeard. He’d be volunteering at a homeless shelter and organising his followers to do the same. He’d comb the Internet for online support groups for non-custodial fathers that aren’t infested with assholes talking about the b*tch who stole their money and kids, and then link to them on his site. But it’s easier to sit on his hole ranting about b*tches and manginas on the internet that his poor girlfriend pays for.
Nequam: yes, thanks! That’s it.
Leda atomica : adorable dog! Forgive me if I missed it, but did you mention his name? He looks like a Mr. Willoughby.
About dogs and poo: we had a foster dog a few years back that was half weiner dog and half beagle. He was adorable, when he barked, it sounded like an old man straining to poop. We called him Oscar meyer.
On the day of his adoption, I had bought him a new sweater and matching collar, with little fire hydrants on them. I was dealing with a second adoption, so I had my husband walk Oscar around to keep him busy.
He led my husband to a pile of cat poop, and proceeded to roll around in it. I guess my husband just stood there and watched. My husband brings him to me, I smelled him way before I saw him.
His new family showed up just as my husband was explaining how he had no idea what happened. The sweater and collar were ruined, but the family fell in love with him, stink and all. They still send me pictures every once in a while.
@raysa: True love means loving your dog even if they smell like poo. And they most likely will.
“But it’s easier to sit on his hole ranting about b*tches and manginas on the internet that his poor girlfriend pays for.”
Do you have any evidence of this? It’s nothing but a taunt designed to discredit Mr. Elam.
In just a few weeks I will be where this arrow is pointing to:
http://img8.rajce.idnes.cz/d0803/5/5117/5117157_349ebd6e6670d37c3739b722441cf63c/images/Kirkenes_map.jpg
Gotta remember to buy gloves. 🙂
I am suddenly very glad our dog is too dumb to dog. Sure, he barks at bricks, but at least the nastiest thing he eats is wet cat food (Cali leaves leftovers)
Oh, and it’s raining here too.