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Men’s Rights memes that make you go “wat”

Even dogs are confused by these MRA memes
Even dogs are confused by these MRA memes

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!

wat
wat

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, the diabolical female in the picture is trying to drive her husband to suicide.

There’s something weirdly familiar about her eyes. Hmmm.

Paul Elam on 20/20
Aak!

Oh, that’s why!

This message of the meme below isn’t especially confusing; it’s a perennial MGTOW fantasy.

havefun
Errr … what?

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. 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.

Huh?
Huh?

It’s not exactly a shock to discover that a men’s rights meme=maker doesn’t actually know what radical feminism is. (Hint: 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. 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 (or 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.”

marilyn

Like Williams, Monroe was a talented comedic actor with a troubled life. But apparently some people 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.

pigdick

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 a 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.

What are you even talking about?
What are you even talking about?

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 somewhere where GamerGaters congragate, comes this meme.

SWAG
SWAG

The only thing that really baffled me about this meme is why GamerGaters would want to depict Anita Sarkeesian here as the COOLEST TOTAL BADASS ON THE PLANET

I will leave you with this. It may come in handy the next time you take a look at MRA memes.

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Stay coherent, my friends.

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Arctic Ape
Arctic Ape
8 years ago

I get an ad that says “What happens when you take a testosterone supplement.” With a picture of a busty woman.

Fits right in with the “Wat” meme theme.

Well, this is actually highly transparent compared to most MRA logic. People who might be interested in testosterone supplement are mostly straight men, therefore show tits to grab attention.

Hambeast, Social Justice Beastie
Hambeast, Social Justice Beastie
8 years ago

Oh! Ya loobyoo Masha!

ETA: I can’t spell Russian in Roman letters to save my life and can’t be bothered to find a Cyrillic font.

Chaltab
Chaltab
8 years ago

Oh come on David you don’t know Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?! You fake nerd boy.

katz
8 years ago

I’m following the established rules of chronology.

Before feminism:

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After feminism:

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Chiomara
Chiomara
8 years ago

Oh come on David you don’t know Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?! You fake nerd boy.

David:
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(I looked for a male version of that meme but CURIOUSLY couldn’t find.)

Lkeke35
Lkeke35
8 years ago

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2016/02/types_of_antifeminist_1200.jpg

Just thought this one should go here. You see how well thought out the ideas are? How clear and easy to understand, without anyone getting a headache?

Bina
8 years ago

Bina, WTF is the human doing to the cat in that capybara video?

Trying to introduce them, I think. There’s another video (which I couldn’t find) that shows the kitty and the capy headbutting and smurgling each other. It’s really the cutest thing…

History Nerd
8 years ago

I never really got the MGTOW stuff. I’ve gone for awhile without any relationships or dating because I’m focused on other stuff now. I suppose they’re insecure and feel like not getting laid all the time is a blow to their masculinities, so they come up with a way to blame women for everything.

Tessa
Tessa
8 years ago

Lkeke35:
That whole comic and not one mention of sexbots? Travesty.

Amnesia
Amnesia
8 years ago

Long time no post… How do you add images now?

jy3
jy3
8 years ago

Tip to AVFMers who might be reading this:

While I get the “make people think we’ve got really nice drugs” approach to recruitment, you might want to consider what will happen when people find out that the “red pills” that influenced your design are not actually pills.

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

@Amnesia:

Use urlofpicturegoesheremakesureitendsin.jpg

Only without spaces within the img tags.

Also, I must say, that’s a good ‘nym.

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

Ack, it removed the tags. Let’s try it again.

Use:
[img]urlofpicturegoesheremakesureitendsin.jpg[/img]

Except with html-style diagonal brackets instead of square ones as above.

epitome of incomprehensibility

@EJ (The Other One) – thanks, I was trying to find a thread where that was discussed. Let me see if this works:

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/sites/default/files/uploads/4/capybara-family_15762686447_f9f8a0684a_o.jpg

epitome of incomprehensibility

Yay! Capybaras. Okay, let me try this too…

Before feminism:

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anne_of_green_gables.jpg

After feminism:

comment image

Shadow
Shadow
8 years ago

@jy3

While I get the “make people think we’ve got really nice drugs” approach to recruitment, you might want to consider what will happen when people find out that the “red pills” that influenced your design are not actually pills.

Actually, considering how insular the manospherian community is, I’m pretty sure that their designs were influenced solely by tools and pills.

msexceptiontotherule
msexceptiontotherule
8 years ago

Testing out the meme thing 😛

I hope this works

Amnesia
Amnesia
8 years ago

Thanks!

Before Feminism:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/magicknightrayearth/images/b/b4/241128.jpg

After Feminism:
http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/9009/swtwc/Emeraude2.jpg

EDIT: As it turns out, the jpg part is case sensitive. Huh.

Nequam
Nequam
8 years ago

Good cartoon, although I’d think the “creepy” guy would be explaining why it’s natural for middle-aged men to be attracted to teenage girls…

sparkalipoo
sparkalipoo
8 years ago

@lkeke35

the “god told me so” strip reminded me of this scene from orange is the new black
https://youtu.be/L3AwDtEayIk

Fabe
Fabe
8 years ago

Ok so how do we attach images? I got something I just made and want to share

Lkeke35
Lkeke35
8 years ago

Sparkalipoo:
I like the last line of that.

It’s interesting that the exact same arguments made against religion can be the same ones used against patriarchy.

bekabot
bekabot
8 years ago

Before feminism:

After feminism:

bekabot
bekabot
8 years ago

Before feminism:

After feminism: