Every Friday is Memeday here at We Hunted the Mammoth. So why am I posting memes on a Thursday? Well, because I’ve been collecting so many memes there’s no way I can confine them to one day a week. Also, it’s my blog and I can break the rules if I want, I mean jeez lay off me for a second why don’t ya?
Today, let’s look at some Men Going Their Own Way memes on the subject of money. Specifically, on the subject of men making all the money and women spending all of it. Which is apparently how many MGTOWs think the world actually works.
Since these MGTOWs aren’t planning to let themselves get ENSLAVED by any money-draining lady monsters — I mean, that’s in the MGTOW mission statement, pretty much — you would think they wouldn’t need to go around yelling about this and making memes and so forth but again, it appears that the only thing these guys are doing with all the time they’ve freed up for themselves by NOT BEING SLAVES TO WOMEN is to yell at the women they’re not being slaves to and make memes about them and so forth.
Seriously, dudes, there are much better hobbies than that. But who am I kidding. They’re never going to give up the yelling at ladies thing.
So we might as well take a look at the fruits of their labor.
I guess they have a point. If you type your PIN into that dude sitting there he probably won’t regurgitate $20 bills. Score one for A Voice for Men here: they’ve managed to produce a meme that is actually true!
Dude, dude, dude. You know that the point of one of these sorts of memes is to get an idea across quickly and memorably, and with a touch of humor. All you had to do was to put that “Talking ATM” on that guy’s head, and, ta da, you would have made your point. A dumb point, to be sure, but seriously, that’s all this needed. But then you started typing and typing and ended up with this mess.
Ok, so let’s set aside for a minute the question of whether or not there are literally small groups of women stalking the streets of affluent communities in search of rich guys they can extract money from.
What I want to know is how the “divorce court industry” can be illegal, but “embezzling men’s property” is … legal?
Ok, maybe it’s this guy’s casual attire, or his scruffy beard, or a his baby face. Or maybe it’s the lack of an incoherent, angry, misogynistic rant. But this is an awfully, well, chill MGTOW meme.
I mean, sure, the premise is a little presumptuous –are you really sure, beardy dude, that every woman who wants to get with you is really out to ENSLAVE YOU FOR LIFE?
But, hey, dude, you be you. If you want to just hang out drinking PBR, then just hang out drinking PBR. That’s your right as an adult human being. And it’s certainly a better use of your time than pasting man-sterical misogynistic rants into terrible memes.
You know, Last Meme Guy isn’t bad looking. Or at least, he would be decent looking if not for the completely unfounded contempt in his expression.
And really, are we supposed to be in awe of his amazing sacrifice in not marrying or something? I just thought “Okay fine. Party on dude.” We don’t care. There’s other moderately good looking men in garages to choose from.
@Razwick, that whole “women are out to take and spend your money” thing is interesting, because it’s such a change from older gender stereotypes. Women were viewed as tightwads who wouldn’t just let loose and enjoy themselves (the kernel of truth is that women were more often in charge of budgeting and such, so they would be responsible for stopping men from frittering away the family resources.)
Now that we love having money as a status symbol, women are portrayed as being out to take it and spend it on themselves. Funny how that works.
Ha. Like ANY of them look like or have the money of the guy in the ATM meme.
Tulse:
What’s wrong with that? If a man is going his own way, where better than in a shed? It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a shed. Every real man aspires to shed ownership. This is the major reason our cities are so dysfunctional: not the pollution, or the overcrowding, or the crime, but the relative paucity of sheds. I feel very strongly about this.
@ moggie
I fully endorse your shed manifesto.
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/182_05232014_17-14.png
I already had police dispatcher art, so…
http://pierre.thecomicseries.com/images/comics/105/9fdc74874cd524fb71a3dbeea9081d611455669215.jpg
Just supposing for one minute that all these memes are correct about women, how do these jackasses think the attitudes the women in the memes would come about other than because of patriarchy?
You can’t deny half the human population a voice or the ability to run their own lives, or even own anything for most of human history and not expect them to find ways to take care of themselves and their children. You certainly wouldn’t see a man not doing it.
Those losers can all fuck off. Every last one of them.
As far as these days are concerned, they can all dream on. Most young women I know are kicking the asses academically and career wise of many guys their age. So again, they can all fuck off.
Re: man-sterical.
I’ve always preferred himsterical, although I’ve seen testerical get some good mileage too.
For all those who are caring about me – thank you. Yes, I am in a much, much better place now, and so is my son. We’re doing fine.
But I do absolutely hate that women grabbing the loot and running meme, for obvious reasons.
Here’s a variation on the theme I saw a while back.
As as added bonus, it takes place in some kind of incomprehensible non-Euclidean space. (Try to figure out the geometry of the scanner slot!)
All I want in life now is to know where that gloriously weird shed image is from.
Seconding the Alan Davies note – he seems quite nice. Anyway, he’s a friend of Oscar Wilde reincarnated and already married, so I’d be too nervous to stalk him…
@ steampunked
As if sheds weren’t cool enough; sheds and dinosaurs!
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-16.58.31.png
@katz: YAY YOU MADE A NEW PIERRE COMIC!!! *happy dance* It’s fabulous!! The guy in the bushes complaining about stalkers is priceless. Love it.
@Moggie:
Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson: going his own way, then going his own way again.
http://www.cardinalfang.net/episodes/season_one/images/arthur_two_sheds_jackson.jpg
You know, seeing these memes has really got me going! I feel like I can totally support the MGTOW cause of not marrying women!
To help support the cause, I made memes (Activism: Am I doing it right?)!
http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s598/Paradoxys3DS/meme_zpscal17rvv.jpg
http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s598/Paradoxys3DS/beanie-baby-divorce-court_zpsx5dgxmc8.jpg
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned before (don’t remember seeing it on this thread, but might be a previously well-known point I guess), but the thing about ATMs is that you’re getting your own money out of them. You can’t just approach a random ATM and get money out of it, you need to actually have some money in the bank. Which you yourself have put there previously. (Well, there’s overdraft issues, but that’s not really the point.)
So, you know, yet another way this stupid image falls apart.
Hey people. So, I know this guy called Bob Smith. He has a million trillion dollarpoundeuros. Do any of you know his EXACT ADDRESS?
If so, let’s stalk/marry him for profit.
>dissolves into giggles<
Although, to be honest, I'm very pro-shed myself. I could use both a potting shed and a bike shed, and I've lately been casting a lustful eye on shed ads in the myriads of flyers that litter our local papers. No lie.
@ Bina
Bike shed? Your wish is our command.
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/FB12.jpg
NicolaLuna,
Wait. Is that the same Bob Smith who writes for Return of Kings who knows that hot dead cancer chick? He sounds like the alpha manliest man of all time! I’ll get my capris and meet you in his alleyway for some dumpster diving. Surely a man that rich and studly has some used condoms just perfect for spermjacking!
That last guy is cute. I’m sure his personality is not-so-cute, though. Being a MGTOW/MRA and all.
Oh and BTW, my dad actually was the one who married “up” (if you can call it that since both my parents aren’t exactly rich, but my mom still makes a lot more money than he does) when he married my mom. So did one of my male cousins. So have a lot of men.
The reason women are more likely to do it is because we don’t pay women as much as men even for equal work, and because of the ways things are set up (patriarchy) women have had historically to rely on men to get their needs met. People will do what they have to do to survive. If things were actually equal, you would see a lot less of women marrying for monetary reasons.
Bina, noooo! Sheds are not for feeemales! Are you not content with everything else your misandering has achieved? Can you not leave men our one remaining safe space in this world?
Glad you like it 🙂 I was totally lazy, didn’t bother moving the women’s poses or anything.
Oh my goodness. I hadn’t even considered spermjacking. In just 9 months we’ll be rich! I’ll buy a house made of bon bons!
Oh! Pierre, bienvenue my friend. It’s been too long!
Husbeast and I have switched main provider roles a couple of times in our 15 years of marriage. I don’t think we’re unicorns in that respect! Apropos of that, Husbeast started his new job today! I’m no longer the sole support of our household. *whew*
As a recent (and happily ex) cashier, the main complaint was that all the stores have different pin pads at the till. Which always puzzled me, since they all work basically the same way, save for minor details. Small potatoes as far as I’m concerned, though. My pet peeve was people who simply HAVE to give you all their excess coins to count when there’s a line* to hell and back! Also, people with $50 or $100 bills in the morning they want changed. In the U.S. the only stores with reliably large sums of cash in the tills are supermarkets. The rest get excess cash scooped out regularly.
*otherwise, I didn’t mind!
@katz
I love your comic, are you an artist?
(Sorry I’m such a noob, also if you have more/have a website I’d love to see more! Especially if it deals with feminist stuff.)