Last night, a helpful Twitterer pointed me to a news story from a couple of years back about a rather obstreperous goat who climbed onto a roof and wouldn’t get down — a bit like those Fathers 4 Justice protesters who like to dress up like superheroes and climb up buildings and bridges and even, last November, Buckingham Palace.
The goat’s aspirations were a tad more modest; he just climbed atop a one-story house. As the Mirror reported:
A routine patrol took an unexpected turn for police in Gresham, Oregon, when they spotted a goat stuck on a roof.
With the officers experienced in dealing with cut-throat criminals on a daily basis, they would have been expected to make light work of dealing with the runaway animal.
However, they were warned not to get any closer to the goat with anger issues as they attempted a rooftop rescue.
‘The goat will charge you,’ one neighbour told the officers during the incident last week.
Yep. Sounds a lot like an MRA.
Another told the perplexed Gresham police team that the ‘goat only respects one man’ and warned them to stay away.
Reports that the goat set the house on fire and then yelled out “made it, ma! Top of fhe world!” turned out to be something that I made up just now.
The goat was eventually rescued when the aforementioned respected owner came home and safely removed him from the roof.
If only MRAs could be dealt with so easily.
Unlike MRAs, though, goats are kind of awesome. To make up for comparing them to MRAs, here are a couple of videos of goats being goaty.
First, baby goats climbing a tree!
https://twitter.com/EverythingGoats/status/684459181563199488
And another goat that got itself into trouble with the law.
https://twitter.com/EverythingGoats/status/683329217371619329
I love goats! They’re such amazing animals. MRAs and the manosphere as a whole, not so much. Goats beat them by light years in everything.
The title of this made my day. Also, adorable baby goats! 🙂
@Paradoxy:
Oh god yes, this. I think it’s because they look at women rapily, and so imagine that gay men are equally rapey towards men. I suspect that a significant chunk of homophobia exists because of that.
*Would totally run after goats trying to scare them so they ‘faint’….*
*Have actually done this. More than once.*
I go to seasonal petting zoos and sometimes the ones at county fairs here in SoCal, with ALL the quarters to empty the feed machines and for a few minutes I am “Queen of the herd”…then the food runs out and they all start trying to eat my clothing. I should call my mom and tell her I’m going to quit being a lawyer so I can move out to the country and raise a herd of goats instead. Last time I told her I was going to be an underwater welder, before that I was going to join the circus. Until she puts my dad on the phone it’s all in good fun. 😉
@EJ
The projection in them is as strong as the self-awareness is weak.
@Luxbelitx
Is having goats an acceptable life goal? Because I really hope so.
This just in: Paul Elam v. Roosh V. Takin’ all bets.
What do you guys think about Stefan Molyneux? I just saw a video about casual sex, men and women. Puuhhh this was horrible. Surprisingly it got many tumbs down.
Is this dude a mra? Some of his videos were cool and informative, but puuhh he hates single moms so damn much, its scary.
I misread the title as “This is what Men’s Rights activists would be doing, if they HAD GOALS.”
I expected something insightful, but I can’t say I’m dissapointed.
Stefan Molyneux?
Absolutely horrible man.
The profile that comes up in the R column of the search page claims that he’s “influenced by”:
Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates, Sigmund Freud, Nathaniel Branden
Not auspicious. David wrote about him.
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/07/07/mra-philosopher-stefan-molyneux-if-you-dont-have-a-husband-to-keep-the-child-is-abusive/
Here’s another couple of items from FtB where he ‘features’.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/27/molyneux-makes-no-sense/
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/11/05/two-white-dudes-spend-an-hour-talking-about-how-racist-and-sexist-it-is-to-criticize-other-white-dudes/
Wasn’t Elam just kissing Roosh’s (unwashed) ass just a few months ago and saying he was a pretty good guy and all that?
OK. It’s not goats, but it’s good brain bleach. First Dog on the Moon ‘moonsplains’ sexism.
I suspect the “Croquembouche of Patriarchy” may live on long after FDOTM is forgotten.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jan/11/is-it-sexist-against-men-first-dog-moonsplains-sexism-again#comment-66527616
Elam may have had some antifeminist solidarity towards Roosh but it’s all gone by now. Very understandable, because
1) Roosh has been constantly ramping up his assholery, especially his racism and homophobia.
2) Roosh is now more famous than Elam, and never gave him respect back.
3) The MRM as a movement has been overshadowed by pick-up assholery, largely thanks to Roosh, while the mainstream media, predictably failing to make any fine distinctions, now uses the term MRA for any misogynist asshole.
@mildlymagnificent,
I read that this morning, First Dog is fantastic.
It’s kind of an insult to goats to compare them to MRAs, dontcha think? The goat is however a good symbol of male ridiculousness and a symbol of virility, which led to the image of Baphomet, a goat-headed man with female breasts who became a symbol of ancient Caanan-based fertility cults.
Male goats, when they want the lady goats, piss on their own heads and charge the ladies. And make loud, obnoxious noises.
Wait – from the descriptions, the MRA’s are male goats….