Today we once again celebrate Memeday — albeit a day late because Roosh — with some Men’s Rights memes that, well, apparently made sense to whoever made them. They don’t make much sense to me.
Let’s begin!
MRAs are obsessed with the notion that women are constantly conspiring to murder their husbands in sneaky ways that don’t show up in the crime stats — by poisoning, by hiring hitmen, and so forth. Presumably in this meme, found on AVFM’s Facebook page,Ā the diabolical female in the picture is trying to drive her husband to suicide.
There’s something weirdly familiar about her eyes. Hmmm.
Oh, that’s why!
This message of the meme below isn’t especially confusing; it’s a perennial MGTOW fantasy.
What I don’t quite understand is what exactly they’re going their own way in.
I mean, it looks like they’re riding in an old-timey convertible. BUT THERE IS NO CONVERTIBLE. Are they flying off in a little spaceship? If so, what’s happened to the legs of the guys in the front seat? I mean, there’s clearly not room for them.Ā Why is there a tree branch floating in the air beside them? Where are their spacesuits? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
This next one also raises a lot of questions.
It’s not exactly a shock to discover that a men’s rights meme=maker doesn’t actually know what radical feminism is. (Hint:Ā securing giant alimony payments for all divorced women is not exactly a major tenet of radical feminism, fellas!)
What I don’t get is the picture, depicting Robin Williams in drag in a scene from Mrs. Doubtfire.Ā At first I thought Mrs. Doubtfire was supposed to represent a rad fem. Then I realized it was probably supposed to be a reference to Williams’ suicide, which MRAs and MGTOWs have blamed on the high cost of the alimony he was paying to his ex-wives. While no one actually knows why Williams killed himself, the comedian struggled for decades with depression and substance abuse and had recently diagnosed with Diffuse Lewy body dementia (orĀ Lewy body disease), a degenerative disorder similar to Parkinson’s known for causing wild hallucinations and that family members apparently think might have triggered the suicide.
In other words, whatever caused Williams’ suicide, it wasn’t radical feminism or “moderate feminism,” whatever that is.
MRAs are a good deal less sympathetic towards Marilyn Monroe, who died of a drug overdose that the coroner ruled a “probable suicide.”
Like Williams, Monroe was a talented comedic actor with a troubled life. But apparently some peopleĀ are so angry about that “if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best” quote that’s regularly attributed to Monroe that all they can do is to howl “whore” in protest. Pretty pathetic.
This next one is a somewhat perplexing variation on the old “feminists are ugly hambeasts” trope.
Now, I don’t know either of the shows that these characters are coming from. All I see is someone with a crudely drawn, er, you know, as aĀ head being transformed into a badass punk warthog, which, I dunno. seems like an upgrade to me,
About the only good thing you can say about the following diagram is that it’s not as bewilderingly complicated as most antifeminist diagrams are. It’s just bewildering.
I don’t know much about PTSD, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t caused by women sitting on whoopie cushions with rape whistles attached to their nozzles.
And then, from somewhereĀ where GamerGaters congragate, comes this meme.
The only thing that really baffled me about this meme is why GamerGaters would want to depict Anita Sarkeesian here as the COOLEST TOTAL BADASSĀ ON THE PLANET
I will leave you with this. It may come in handy the next time you take a look at MRA memes.
Stay coherent, my friends.
@Saphira
Capybara! Half guinea pig, half dog, all makes me want to rub its belly. o3o
First, I love capybaras. They’re like giant guinea pigs!
Secondly…
Before Feminism:
After Feminism:
http://img08.deviantart.net/d15b/i/2012/290/f/4/cthulhu_by_douzen-d5i2saj.jpg
That looks like fun! š
Before feminism:
http://trendymods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/collection-of-German-Spitz-puppy-pictures.jpg
After feminism:
http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbseg/889/889474-bigthumbnail.jpg
Might as well join in.
Before feminism:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317145-198D5145000005DC-43_634x476.jpg
After feminism:
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/05/12/trump12-1646d5a063e120563d971efd3ab5c967ac3ac8bd-s900-c85.jpg
Before feminism:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcrossroads/images/b/b7/Young_Jean_Grey.jpg
After feminism:
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/11/110502/1799988-671538_phoenix_reborn.jpg
(I just had to put Jean Grey here. Kind of off context, but more accurate.)
Looked at more of the AvfM memes. I’ll try to link to one really awful one but idk if it will work:
https://www.facebook.com/102001393188684/photos/pb.102001393188684.-2207520000.1454810039./931919970196818/?type=3&theater
Before feminism:
http://img11.deviantart.net/5fa3/i/2013/016/6/3/the_powerpuff_girls__bubbles_by_komal08731-d5ds8pb.png
After feminism:
http://cdn4.gurl.com/wp-content/gallery/powerpuff-girls-moments/femme-fetale-powerpuff-girls.jpg
MWAHAHAHAHA!
Okay, I’ll stop flooding the thread now.
@MissAndry
Shouldn’t your images be on the opposite order? Hilarious, btw.
Miss Andry wins.
RAISE THE FEMINIST KRAKEN!!!
Dodohunter,
Do you mean the octopus one?
It’s from the movie Spring.
It’s a romance movie, believe it or not! I recommend it.
The latest MRA hero, folks:
http://jezebel.com/wisconsin-man-said-it-was-easy-to-murder-a-woman-after-1757515496
before feminism
life was shit
the end
just nothing left to say about it anymore
I can explain that. It’s a variant of the “Expand dong” meme (which is SFW, at least where 4Channers haven’t used it to make rape jokes, just very silly). Of course, I can’t explain the content at all, but who the hell can?
Either way, I think I’m going to respond to their Anita ED with another ED:
http://i.imgur.com/TOHD7uD.jpg
@Miss Andry
Don’t…don’t they have men only/women only beaches there? Do they not know that?
And it took exactly four replies for the first #NotAllMenner to show up.
http://www.listen-tome.com/comics/2014-04-10-PLTM196.jpg
I don’t think the Man Signal is a joke. I think they actually have one.
I get the Robin William’s one.
He’s not supposed to be a radical feminist and it’s not meant to be about Robin William’s committing suicide. It’s about his character in the film who wants to look after his children but is denied the right despite his wife being in full time employment and him being free to work round his children. I think the people in authority who give the wife sole custody are the radicals and the ones who let him be separated from his children are the ones who let it happen.
I think it’s a comment that his radical feminist wife is denying him his home and children so he has to dress as a woman to get access. It make sense but it’s a stupid to use a fictional character from the 80’s to make any point yes women in the 80’s and 90’s were often automatically given custody but people also smoked in planes and were shocked to see gay people on prime time Tv things have changed, no man has to drag up just to get regular access these days.
It’s about the character not the actor. The fact it needed this much explanation makes it pretty pointless. I do think it’s stupid but it’s not tough to understand there was an over correction in the 80’s and 90’s where women did get sole custody but after decades of it being the opposite where women stayed so the would not lose custody to a father who kept his children just to be spiteful. Still think if the have to dig out a fictional story to make point then they are really really grasping.
@SFHC
That’s a hilarious cartoon!
His power comes from Mom’s Meatloaf.
His Kryptonite is kitten pix. Also, a rolled-up copy of Ms. magazine. My Little Pony. Frozen yogurt. Nuns. A $.50 off coupon for Maxi Pads. Body hair on a beautiful woman. Chamomile tea. Pixie haircuts. Anything, really.
Before feminism….
http://cdn.imgs.steps.dragoart.com/how-to-draw-a-baby-wolf-cub-step-8_1_000000153383_3.gif
After feminism
http://silvergravy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/skyrim8.jpg?9d7bd4
Before Feminism:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/7/72/Tails_35.png
After Feminism:
http://s3.narvii.com/image/xubpop4aw4ljqh7i3qakmkaelh2d74cy_hq.jpg
I was oddly curious about the phoenix symbol logo in the rape woopie cushion thing.
Thanks to Google I discovered The United Anti-Feminist Coalition (U.A.F.C.) which hates feminism and competent graphic design.
They sell what has to be the worst designed bumper stickers in all of human history on Cafe Press. I wish I could figure out how to post the images, one sticker is a nonsensical explosion of graphic chaos and another one has a long dense paragraph with tiny lettering that’s perfect for bumper stickers.
http://www.cafepress.com/uafc2/s__stickers-flair
@brooked: Competent Graphic Design is Misandry. (CGDM)
Before feminism:
After feminism:
http://api.ning.com/files/zYvUvcLXovAGtQ6KB7ytALD9FxuL1mIoRmijRATU03u5AFYUVZzDm-uYleghT42A1eishO7C5Cd8oQY*ijrp7wvG0N61glFr/r169_457x256_2191_Baba_Yaga_2d_fantasy_witch_baba_yaga_folklore_picture_image_digital_art.jpg
I’m enchanted with U.A.F.C.’s T-shirts that say Feminist Tears. That’s the only design on this T-shirt, which must be mystifying to most. If I weren’t hip to their jive, I might think it was tears, as in rips.
I actually got the last meme given to me last year by some guy who just posted anti-feminist memes at me as if he thought those would win the argument.
[UNDERTALE SPOILER]
Before feminism:
http://piskel-imgstore-b.appspot.com/img/0a904f9c-8d96-11e5-9d5c-afb0dddeba28.gif
After feminism:
[/UNDERTALE SPOILER]
I’m reminded of the video posted recently featuring the badass lioness chasing away a male twice her size from her cubs.
Before feminism:
http://media1.santabanta.com/full1/Animals/Lions/lions-67a.jpg
After Feminism
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/a-lion-panthera-leo-balks-at-a-lioness-des-amp-jen-bartlett.jpg