So a little over a week ago, a drunken idiot in Miami attacked an Uber driver and trashed his car after being refused a ride. A video of the incident quickly went viral on YouTube; so far, it’s racked up more than five million views.
To the denizens of the Men’s Rights subreddit, this is somehow a Men’s Rights issue.
Because, you see, the drunken idiot in question was … a woman! And not just any woman — a young, thin, conventionally attractive woman who happens to be a fourth-year neurology resident a local hospital, and who also, apparently, happens to remind more than a few MRAs of every woman who’s ever turned them down for a date.
The headline given to the Men’s Rights subreddit post on the subject was basically catnip for angry misogynists: “Bratty rich doctor gets drunk and makes a huge fool of herself trashing Uber car, assaulting the driver then gets off when Police arrive.”
Naturally, the Mens Rights Redditors are furious that the woman — who’s been suspended from her job — isn’t going to spend the rest of her life in jail, because the “white knight” Uber driver decided not to press charges.
“Reverse the genders,” one commenter sniffs, “and [the charge] would be attempted murder.”
Actually, if you reverse the gender of the assailant, it would be misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor public intoxication. At least that’s what one drunken man was charged with after his much more violent assault on an Uber driver last November. Video of that assault got less than a tenth of the number of views the “bratty rich doctor” video got.
And that earlier video didn’t inspire anyone to vomit up an angry wall-o-text attack like this:
Welcome to the 21st Century Female indeed.
More proof that anti-feminist men are afraid that feminism might lead to women treating men the way men have treated women for the last few millenia.
Am I the only person slightly disappointed that this post turned out not to be about lady assassins?
It must suck to live in Bizarro World where men are instantly blamed and punished.
He’s surprised that there aren’t more videos of women behaving like this?
Somehow all the phones are out of battery when ALL the women kick off?
Lack of evidence for a wild accusation is quite telling, matey boy.
Hmmmm… In a world where white dudes shoot up schools, theaters and whole fucking countries when they feel like it, this is so ridiculous that there are layers of funny.
On the surface it’s just kind of silly. Then I realize that even if the author doesn’t believe his own bullshit, he thinks other people will. And either his fellow MRAs do believe him or they play along just to have some sort of hateboner circle jerk.
That’s funny.
There should be a rule that when MRA’s and other woman haters play the “what if the genders were reversed” game, they first must actually Google whether or not there have been situations in which the genders were, in fact, reversed. Because seriously every time there’s at least one. But then, that would require misogynists have the ability to recognize that the world exists outside of their own experiences and knowledge, so I won’t hold my breath.
Sounds like a large number of people with high status, not just women. And since the vast majority of people with high status are men, and you actually get pretty far with status if you’re an entitled fart weasel, I’d say it’s far more common in men.
It’s funny because I saw the title of the post and wondered “will this be the definition of professional that includes me or the one that doesn’t?” and then
Ovendice was nice enough to clarify. Yes, even us just a secretaries are guilty of these vile acts of misandry.
In other news, a few weeks ago I witnessed a man strike a woman as she tried to get on public transit; and, when she yelled out, claim that he’d only just tapped her shoulder to get her attention. Everyone – including, shamefully, myself – looked at anything other than their confrontation. No one intervened. No one even acknowledged it was happening.
That reddit post… seems to be capable of being summarized as “wahh wahh I can’t be a shithead to women without consequences! WAHHHHHHHH”
But they didn’t get their panties in a wad over the billionaire guy that did the same thing weeks earlier. I mean I’m not surprised they didn’t I just don’t get how they can be so obviously hypocritical and go sailing past the point which is maybe no one ever should attack anyone.
It isn’t as if entitled men ever get away with raping and murdering women and kids. Oh…wait…
Ha ha!! Alan Robertshaw. Hilarious comment!! 🙂
I would have pressed charges but really, had the situation be reversed, he’d have been praised in those quarters as an ambitious beta upriser.
Shorter: Wasn’t it nice when women were so terrified of men, they were all polite and respectful to every man they met (as if such a time ever existed outside of the 1950’s sitcom)?
I think they actually believe that life will be better for everyone if women abandon feminism and resume a subjected role. That women would be happier with those limitations. They don’t understand that an instinct to be nice to everyone is driven by internalized fear or self-destruction of some sort, and that the “doting male husband/father figure” was as much a tyrant as anything else. I don’t understand how they can’t see it.
EDIT: oh man, that picture. She looks like she’s patiently waiting through the male nurse mansplaining the job she’s about to do while jerkbag onlooker bro is casually getting cigarette ash all over her scrubbies. I’d be contemplating murder too.
Since she’s a woman, I suspect she’s going to face a lot more social consequences than the complaining MRAs realize. Boys will be boys, but the gals just can’t handle their booze, y’know what I mean?
I think it’s pretty safe to say that had the video been of a woman murdering a male Uber driver, she would have been charged with murder pretty quickly. You can’t argue that because someone didn’t get jailed for being a drunken mess, they wouldn’t be jailed for anything at all. Well, you can if you’re an MRA, I guess. Since that’s what passes for logic in their world.
Notice the guy ranting is in sales. I’m guessing the men he deals with have the same “ugh, a salesperson” attitude as the women. He just doesn’t notice because MRA confirmation bias is a powerful thing.
“THIS is what a Feminist looks and ACTS like!”
Yup, that’s why there are so many videos out there of us beating on men.
@ Alan
No.
“White knights ready to… beat you to a pulp if you so much as smart off to a female”
From what I see of our culture, it’s mostly MEN who promote the “value” of cold-cocking anyone who dares to disrespect “their” woman.
ETA: Yeah, I guess that’s what he was saying. Where he still goes wrong is attributing this behavior to “white-knight” type men. It’s always the alpha male, Brad-Paisley-I’m-Still-A-Guy types that *I* see pontificating about how they must defend their woman’s honor.
I think MRAs conveniently forget that murder is still against the law, no matter who you are and what sex you identify as. Anything to paint feminists in a negative light, even if it’s totally nonsensical. WTF.
@LindsayIrene — Sorry, but I think your comment there is pretty shitty. It almost sounds like you’re a clever troll trying to subtly stoke the fire of misogyny by suggesting tacitly in your comment that meh, it’d be a-ok if women DID, in fact, turn around and subjugate women when, in fact, feminism is not about dominance but about egalitarianism. Probably you didn’t mean it to sound that way, but I could see how it would easily come across as suggesting that feminism = women doing to men what men have historically done to women, in which case yea, obviously men are going to be opposed to that.
We have to be careful with our wording if we ever hope to shut down the nonsense that is the MRM. Just sayin’.
But yea…this guy’s comment is way over the top. I’ve personally been in a situation where a “magnolia” (as opposed to a “Georgia Peach”) co-worker of mine (loud, pushy, bully of a woman whose fiancee dropped a couple thousand to fly out to Hawaii where she was working at the time, get a nice diamond ring, and propose to her only to have her say “Nope, ring’s not big enough” and send him packing, insisting that he come back a second time with a bigger rock; ug) accused me of assaulting her after she had been in my face yelling at me and I yelled back at her because she was being a pushy asshole.
Our manager was a woman, and she sat us both down, asked us to tell her what happened, heard both sides of the story, and decided from that and from what she knew about us what had happened. There was no evidence of assault (the lady had accused me of shoving her around, not like beating her or anything severe) and she just told us to cool our jets and give each other a wide berth. I thought it was a very fair decision, not at all a situation in which the “feeeeemale” got to treat me like a “piece of shit” and get away with it.
To be sure, the woman in question was a bully and she was treating me like a piece of shit, but she didn’t just get away with it, she got a pretty stern talking to from her female boss. So yea, I have firsthand anecdotal evidence that speaks to the contrary of what this d00d is saying, but then again, 95% of the stuff MRAs say is bullshit. The 5% that is true is usually quoting the story of what happened before doing a jacknife dive into total malarkey.
Aw! I could have been getting away with murder and nobody told me?! Thanks for nothing feminism!
This is why we need MRA sites. They are soooo informational! /sarcasm
DS – I totally did not read LindsayIrene’s post that way. It’s a pretty common analysis, actually, that privileged types can’t get out of a zero-sum headspace and are convinced that marginalized people just want revenge.
I think LindsayIrene’s comment was very clear on the idea that MRAs fear–FEAR–that women would treat them as badly as they’ve treated women all these years. Not that women would do it. MRAs have a knack for projection, as we all know.
Think the reddittors are confused, they’re thinking of Trump being able to kill and get away with it.