I‘ve lost track of the number of times that some aspiring Man Going His Own Way has shown up in the comments here, indignantly objecting to some post I’ve made about the MGTOW lifestyle, such as it is. All we’re doing is trying to live our lives in peace, the MGTOWs declare. Why are you always picking on us?
Well, I think from now on I’ll just send them a link to this post. Today we’re celebrating Memeday one day early with three of the most ridiculously misogynistic memes I’ve yet seen in my five years of running this blog — all of which were posted to the MGTOW subreddit in the last week.
This, MGTOW dudes, is why we pick on you. Because instead of actually going your own way and living the free, independent lives you say you want to live, you stew in your own hatred and fritter away your life talking endlessly about the alleged evils of women online.
Seriously, dudes. When Thoreau went and lived by himself in a shack by a pond for a year, he emerged from the experience with a book people are still talking about today. Left to you own devices, you guys produce crap like this:
So not only is this woman “a baby aborting, lawsuit filing, backstabbing psychotic whore,” but she is also:
- a feminist
- a vampire
- a Satanist
- either the Beast of Revelations or just someone with glasses decorated with the number of the beast
Also, she really needs to see an ophthalmologist STAT, because there is definitely something a bit off about her eyes.
About the only good thing I can say here is that this meme got a mixed-but-mostly-negative reception in r/MGTOW, with responses ranging from “topkek” to “[t]his is why MGTOW has a bad name even amongst MRM,” though the critics were more annoyed by the anti-abortion stuff than by the raging misogyny. And in at least one case because the abortion talk meant that he could post a little manifesto on why men should be able to “financially abort” any of their children they didn’t feel like providing for
This next terrible meme has an otherworldly theme:
I hate to break it to you, fellas, but that alien there is a Small Grey. They’re not interested in chatting about science with you. They’re the ones who go around abducting people and using them in medical experiments. And mutilating cattle, but I think that’s more of a hobby of theirs.
This one also got a mixed reception in r/MGTOW, with reactions ranging from “sadly, women in Brazil are not that different from American women” to “this is probably one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. This post honestly looks like it was made by a mentally handicapped middle schooler.”
I don’t even know where to start with this one. I just hope whoever made this paid for the rights to all those stock-image angry ladies!
Also, dude, if the purpose of these Bitch Snacks is to provide women with the energy they need to make themselves miserable, why would they contain Prozac? The whole point of antidepressants like Prozac is make people less miserable, not more. That’s why they’re called antidepressants.
Seriously, dudes, antidepressants. They could do you a lot of good (and I say that as someone who’s been taking the things for more than twenty years). They’ll certainly do you more good than spending the rest of your life in the MGTOW subreddit laughing at hateful, shitty memes and trying to convince yourself you’re happy.
So how did this meme, possibly the most misogynistic of the three, fare in r/MGTOW?
The fellas loved it. “Bitch bones. Love it,” wrote one. “Words cannot express how awesome this is,” declared another.
MGTOWE. Men Going Their Own Way Eventually.
It’s amazing how when you literally invent an intelligent extraterrestrial being, complete with what they are “probably” or “most likely” like, you can make them look cooler than just about anyone.
Of course, the woman is an invented character too, but at least human women can be proven to exist.
It’s hard to not wish harm on them.
Why do a bunch of dudes who don’t want women in their lives give so much of a crap about abortion? Wouldn’t they rather these evil, vampiric non-humans NOT breed? They hate us so much, but they’d rather there were more of us? Especially ones the mothers not be able to support financially resulting in leeching off some poor man who deserves better?
… My head hurts.
I haz a confuzzle. If these snacks give you “energy to make yourself miserable”, but come with Prozac…doesn’t that kind of defeat itself?
Also, “confrontational, obnoxious, bizarre with twisted priorities and petty to the point where it becomes almost psychotic”, etc., sounds just like migtoes talking at/about women.
Migtoe “logic”. Now with extra bullshit!
Why does every single MRA still use MS Paint? Fucking Christ.
Beliefs stuck in the 1850s, graphics skills stuck in the 1990s.
Another round of proof that ideology is more important than wit, aesthetics, originality, logic, graphic skills, etc., when it comes to MGTOW memes.
I think they need to change their name “men eternally bitter.”
You know, there was actually a time when I held my breath that they would shut up and actually go their own way.
Obviously that’s never going to happen, and as much as I like the color blue (especially TARDIS blue), I don’t think it looks good on me when I’m turning it…
Once again they prove that MGTOW stands for Men Getting Totally Obsessed with Women.
Also, dudes, did nobody break it to you that “most of the human race” ARE women?
I think I have to give the “most misogynistic” prize to #2, for being such a blatant endorsement of the only-men-are-human idea.
Ninja’ed by Tara!
The right-hand vampire tooth (from our perspective) on that one woman is drawn over one of her incisors, not her canine. This irritates me.
I was just watching The Thing last night. The John Carpenter one, of course! I think you could compare that alien to MGTOWs. Whenever they’re around, horrible grossness ensues and you really don’t want them venturing out into the world. Keep them frozen in ice please.
Does the maker of this alien meme think only American “females” get abortions? Really? Abortion existed long before American women did.
Oh, and I guarantee you that pro-choice, feminist, satanic vampires are way more fun to be around than MGTOWs.
In fairness, an Adobe Cloud subscription is kind of expensive and many MGTOWs explicitly state that they want to contribute as little money as possible (in taxes) to the obvs gynocentric social policies of most European and North American countries.
And GIMP…GIMP can be hard to learn, a blatant attack by the gynocracy on MGTOWs because…er…um…they’re too busy working to provide tax money to support unwed mothers?
/s
Though, in actual, real honesty, I probably couldn’t do any better…but I’m also not trying to pretend that I’m a graphic artist.
I’m willing to bet that their reasoning goes something like this:
Art is something that women do*, therefore any man can do it better**.
They’re men, therefore they can Art (for sure better than those b*tches who got all of the attention in art class).
*Stereotypically, especially considering that some of them probably have an ideal of a manic pixie dream girl who’s also bizarrely compliant that thry’re really holding out for.
**Because “real artists” – those whose names thry know – are all men.
*sigh*
I’ve mistyped “they” so often as “thry” so often on my phone that it now autocorrects the “e” to an “r”.
Got a “G” in it. Obvious attempt to subliminally induce sympathy for the gynofascist conspiracy.
P.S. I, too, probably couldn’t create any better graphics than this. Which is why I don’t try. XD
Tangentially on topic question:
I’m installing a floor today.
To MRAs and MGTOWs am I
a) Probably a lesbian because I’m using power tools?
b) Useful / pulling my own weight because I’m not using my feminine wiles to make a man do it?
c) A horrible mother because I’m letting my small child watch / “help”?
d) A horrible mother because I’m doing something other than singing the ABCs while staring at my child in adoration?
e) All of the above?
—
Answer: Trick question.
I’m a woman and am therefore horrible regardless of any of those choices.
Also, I’m probably going to horribly fuck up the floor and/or cut a digit off of myself, my toddler, or both.
A feminist vampire satanist with cool glasses? I think I’ll hang out with her instead. She sounds pretty cool.
The guiding principle is: “If a woman does it of her own free will, it must be evil. (Codicil: Any action a woman is forced to take is still her fault due to bad decisions she made before that.)” So both having a baby and choosing to abort a pregnancy are evil actions, if the decision was in any way made by the mother, as are abstinence and using contraceptives.
Dammit, I almost had the edit done in time to evade the blockquote monster.
Now I want something called “Baddest Bitch Snacks.” Get on it MGTOWs!
The human race has more in common with a grey alien than with more than half of its members?
TiredTexan: Don’t be silly; women aren’t people! (I trust the sarcasm shows, there.)