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, 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. 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: 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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stay coherent, my friends.
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.
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.
Oh come on David you don’t know Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?! You fake nerd boy.
I’m following the established rules of chronology.
Before feminism:
After feminism:
David:
(I looked for a male version of that meme but CURIOUSLY couldn’t find.)
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?
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…
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.
Lkeke35:
That whole comic and not one mention of sexbots? Travesty.
Long time no post… How do you add images now?
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.
@Amnesia:
Use urlofpicturegoesheremakesureitendsin.jpg
Only without spaces within the img tags.
Also, I must say, that’s a good ‘nym.
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.
@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
Yay! Capybaras. Okay, let me try this too…
Before feminism:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anne_of_green_gables.jpg
After feminism:
@jy3
Actually, considering how insular the manospherian community is, I’m pretty sure that their designs were influenced solely by tools and pills.
Testing out the meme thing 😛
I hope this works
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.
Apropos capybaras, here’s the story of that capy and his cat-friend.
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…
@lkeke35
the “god told me so” strip reminded me of this scene from orange is the new black
https://youtu.be/L3AwDtEayIk
Ok so how do we attach images? I got something I just made and want to share
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.
Before feminism:
After feminism:
Before feminism:
After feminism: