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I say “tomato,” you say “feminism is cancer,” let’s call the whole thing off!

The dictionary definition of "tomato" didn't warn me about this!
The dictionary definition of “tomato” didn’t warn me about this!

Men’s Rights Activists and other antifeminists always hate it when feminists point them to dictionary definitions of feminism as “the advocacy of equal rights for men and women” (or similar) rather than “a seekrit cabal of evil spermjacking sluts that want to genocide all men,” which is what all MRAs apparently think feminism really is.

In the meme below, one anti-feminist tries to prove that dictionary definitions aren’t always right so there, and if the dictionary can get “tomato” wrong then it must have feminism wrong too!

tomatomeme

Aw, dude. You tried. But apparently you didn’t bother to check the dictionary definition of “tomato” first. Here’s what you get if you type the words “tomato definition” into Google.

to·ma·to təˈmādō/ noun 1. a glossy red, or occasionally yellow, pulpy edible fruit that is typically eaten as a vegetable or in salad. 2. the South American plant of the nightshade family that produces this fruit. It is widely grown as a cash crop, and many varieties have been developed.D’oh!

 

 

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Kat
Kat
8 years ago

@Just Asking!

Where are these anti-draft feminists? I haven’t seen them. Were they the ones handing white feathers to boys as young as 12 to encourage them to go fight and die in the Great War? WHOOPS…..

You seem so eager to learn! So here are women’s pacifist groups, some of them already named by other commenters.

Perhaps you already know that no one has been drafted in the United States since 1973. So it’s possible that these groups don’t focus on the draft, especially the US draft. But they definitely are women’s pacifist groups. And without war–which is their aim–there is no need for a draft.

I obtained this information quite easily through a Google search:

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
http://wilpfus.org/

Code Pink
http://www.codepink.org/splash?splash=1

Another Mother for Peace
http://anothermother.org/about

Women in Black
http://womeninblack.org/

Women Against War–The Old Women’s Project
http://www.oldwomensproject.org/women_war.htm

And for a good read, there’s Testament of Youth, a harrowing autobiography by English pacifist Vera Brittain, one of the first women admitted to Oxford. When World War I came, she abandoned her studies to become a nurse in England’s armed services:

http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Youth-Penguin-Classics-Brittain/dp/0143039237

Paradoxical Intention - Resident Cheeseburger Slut

@YoureanAsshole (what an apt name to respond to): If you don’t want to marry women, then don’t marry women.

None of us give a shit if you don’t want to get married. No one cares.

Now that that’s out of the way:

Affirmative consent was invented by man-hating women to enact the same level of life destruction upon men through dating that women enjoy through divorce (forced wealth transfer from men to women).

Source please.

In the meantime, Affirmative consent doesn’t mean what you think it means.

And here’s an article explaining why lawmakers put this into effect.

Of course, I don’t expect you to read it, nor do I expect you to do anything but dismiss it as part of your little conspiracy to somehow stealing money from men via “forced wealth transfer”.

As a man, the worst of all time contracts you could possibly sign would be the marriage contract. Affirmative consent was invented by man-hating women to ensure you married them after having sex. The consequence of not marrying her after sex is of course your life annihilation – through false rape/sexual assault allegations.

Oh, you mean like old-timey shotgun weddings where a father would hold a gun up to a man and force him to marry his daughter if he “deflowered” her (or got her pregnant)?

You could thank feminism for helping society come to terms with the fact that women want to be sexually liberated and want to have NSA sex just like men already do, I suppose, but I wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of your straw there.

I love it when these manospherian types come in here with something men used to force women to do and then blame women for it. It’s totes hilarious.

At no other point in history has a contract been written to so badly screw one gender over the other.

You could have been a woman a hundred years ago where you could be legally raped by your spouse (which laws were finally passed to prevent it in 1993 in the US.), you could be beaten for anything and everything (and if your husband didn’t beat you, he was seen as less of a man for not doing so), and you were expected to cater to his every whim and if you were Catholic, god help you because divorce wasn’t an option.

I would say that both men and women have it better nowadays, because there are more viable outs to marriage and ways to get away from abusive partners. Of course, men need a bit more help because of toxic masculinity saying that men aren’t men if they ask for help (or get beat up by a woman), but we’re still working on that.

Of course, if you’re worried about getting into an abusive relationship, Asshole, then by all means, just don’t get married or date or anything! That’d sure show us feminists, amirite?

Do you know what happens if you’re falsely convicted of DV, rape or sexual assault? You’re unemployable. Do you know what it means to be unemployable? It means you’ll likely take your own life or starve to death. Do you know what’s necessary to be convicted of DV, rape or sexual assault? A woman’s word alone.

So Bill Cosby’s just an anomaly then? Because I’ve seen over 50 women accuse him of rape, and he’s still being defended by people who claim that those women are “Drug whoring star fuckers“, Liars, and a bunch of other garbage.

And no, it’s never just “a woman’s word alone” that convicts men of domestic violence, rape, or sexual assault.

I was sexually abused by a family member from when I was twelve until I was fourteen. You know what happened? I told several people what was going on, and nothing happened until my boyfriend at the time took me to see the school counselor. Not a one of them did anything about it. I was dismissed as a “hysterical teenager who wanted to get back at her parents”, regardless of if they offered to help or not. It was always my word against his, and I was never believed until my ex listened to me.

Then there was two weeks of investigations where I was removed from my house and had to go live with a foster family, he was arrested and questioned, and I had to go to a rape crisis center to get checked out. Then there were two trials, both of which lasted a week, and where I had to go on a stand for what felt like hours at a time and recount all the traumatizing details of what I went through word for word with a prosecutor berating me for every inconsistency, even though I was a terrified teenager who only wanted to break down and cry and who didn’t want to be there in a room full of strangers telling the story of being raped and molested night after night after night.

And after all of that, I managed to get a conviction twice.

And you know what that fucker did after he was put away? He harassed my mother via his new prison pen-pal girlfriend on facebook, and he sent his biological daughter disgustingly sexually explicit letters asking her shit like “What kind of underwear do you wear for your boyfriend?” once she was a teenager (He was put away when she was eight.)

Not to mention there are so many fucking cops out there who berate rape victims and ask them shit like “What were you wearing?” “Where were you going?” “Who were you with?” “Were you drinking?” “Did you flirt with this person?”

And you know what else? There’s also tons of untested rape kits just lying around thanks to cops who think that women lie about being raped and just “regret having sex”, so guess who didn’t get convicted on “a woman’s word alone”? A shit-ton of possible rapists, because cops didn’t even bother to follow through with their fucking jobs.

I’d be impressed with the patience of any woman who would put up with your seething, putrid garbage mentality for five minutes. You’re better off alone, and we’re better off without you.

And the idea that any woman would want you and all your toxic bullshit, even if it’s just solely for your money, is outright laughable. Don’t flatter yourself.

Policy of Madness
Policy of Madness
8 years ago

Sorry kid but I won’t do your homework for you. It’s called Google look into it.

http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/and3infx.jpg

weirwoodtreehugger
8 years ago

Never give a woman the ring of power or any power over your life.

You’re right, our eye of Sauron vaginae are really hungry for the ring.

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Eye-of-Sauron-Facebook-fan-page-800×430.jpg

So sad that I’m happy to see a troll that isn’t a false equivalency sealion type.

Til that rape doesn’t exist, it’s just something women made up to try and blackmail a man into giving a marriage proposal. I thought that’s what spermjacking was for. Where was I when this change was made? I didn’t get the memo! No wonder I’m single. I was digging through dumpsters for used condoms when I supposed to be making false rape accusations to snag a man!

Now I just feel silly.

ETA: Speaking of silly, I hope the edit fixes the strikethrough mammoth attack!

Policy of Madness
Policy of Madness
8 years ago

Women are your deadliest enemy. Women are preying mantises. Any man that tells you otherwise is on his way to his own destruction.

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Kat
Kat
8 years ago

@YoureAnAsshole

Women are your deadliest enemy. . . .

I say feminism is cancer because feminism is cancer.

Nah. No way are women my enemy. Women–and feminism–actually work to protect women from the patriarchy. It’s a tough fight. But we’re up to the challenge.

Feminism is cancer? Nope. Feminism promotes health.

Paradoxical Intention - Resident Cheeseburger Slut

@Kat: In fact, don’t many feminists encourage men to seek medical attention and to get help when they need it instead of the MAYUNLY thing to do (pour whiskey on it and put some duct tape on it, it’ll go away on its own! And don’t cry like a wuss in the meantime!)?

Shaenon
8 years ago

My gosh there are a lot of trolls on this thread. Anyone wanna address I’mAnAsshole? I don’t have the energy right now.

Meh, it’s pretty boring. Sadly, we’ve already seen countless dudes who are really, really mad that sex has to be consensual.

Kat
Kat
8 years ago

Mammotheers, thanks for your cogent–and often detailed–responses to questions & accusations.

I learn so much from you!

Social Justice Atheist
Social Justice Atheist
8 years ago

It really is sad that this would be considered a smaller amount of trolls compared to a lot of other threads. Sad, but not surprising. Ugh.

Kat
Kat
8 years ago

@Paradoxical Intention
Yep, feminists urge men to get help for all kinds of wounds–physical, emotional, and psychic.

weirwoodtreehugger
8 years ago

As usual feminists only want to discuss when they have overwhelming numbers,

We didn’t come to you. You came to us. Don’t come into a blog full of feminists, make an anti-feminist post, and then whine when people reply. What did you expect?

Feminism is about for equality but only for issues that affect women? THAT’S NOT WHAT EQUALITY MEANS. This is a tactic admission that “feminism = equality” the whole point of the blog post, is indefensible bullshit.

A group fights for equality because they are marginalized in some way. It’s not necessary to fight for the equality of a non-marginalized group. That’s why it isn’t done. Feminism fights for equality for women because we don’t have equality. Is this so hard to understand?

Apparently so.

The fact remains women got the “right” to vote a century ago but still can’t be drafted.

Why is “right” in scare quotes?

I see what you’re mad about now. Men don’t have the responsibility of fighting against the draft even though it effects them. It’s feminist’s job. Even though feminists didn’t put the draft in place. Men did. It’s not good enough that peace and justice movements have always been chock full of feminists. Our sole focus must be on what you want it to be, or it’s misandry.

What have you done to get rid of the draft or make it gender neutral? I’m going to take a wild guess. Whining on the internet is all you’ve ever done.

Of course you wouldn’t be a liberal if you didn’t bring racism into every discussion for NO REASON. Who was talking about race???? Not me. Is giving men longer sentences than women okay if they’re WHITE men??

Also blacks can speak for themselves thank you very much. They don’t need your white knighting to save them.

That point whooshed over your tiny little head, didn’t it? Nobody is saying white men should be discriminated against in the criminal justice system. We’re saying that the gender disparity exists because poor men of color are disproportionately targeted for arrests and long sentences. And you can shut your trap with that “white knighting” BS. The reason white liberals even know about this issue is thanks to the hard work of civil rights activists who have brought this issue to the forefront. That includes black women, BTW. Like Michelle Alexander who wrote The New Jim Crow. Don’t pretend like this is an issue white liberals made up to look politically correct.

Kowtowing to feminism will not get you laid. Women scorn and mock “male feminists.” They hate you and want you to die a virgin. Trust me dude they will never even let you sniff it.

Let me guess, you pulled a Dennis Reynolds and pretended to be a male feminist for a day to pick up slutty pro choice liberal chicks. But they saw through your bullshit right away and you got nowhere. Plenty of genuine feminist/ally men do just fine with feminist women because they are actually good people and not just performing feminism to try and get laid. And no, woman feminists have not formed secret clubs where we get together and mock those male feminist suckers.

Also, unless you’re a dog, stop trying to sniff women’s crotches. That’s a little creepy.

AW
AW
8 years ago

Sorry kid but I won’t do your homework for you. It’s called Google look into it.

Wow. You actually managed to to use the phrase that helps define the Gish Gallop. If only you were able to follow your own advice.

Women are your deadliest enemy. Women are preying mantises. Any man that tells you otherwise is on his way to his own destruction.

I’ll tell you otherwise. Feminism has enriched my life. My wife has an amazing career in which she’s invested. I don’t ever have to question my choice to cut down on my work hours to spend more time with my wonderful child. Thanks, feminism, for giving me–a man–more options. Thanks for giving everyone more options.

Skiriki
Skiriki
8 years ago

Sorry! I tried to make the image to a link, but for some reason it kept failing! I won’t do it again. 🙂

Oh hey! New toys in thread! Can I play too!? I could spray them with catnip and drop my kitties on them.

Freemage
Freemage
8 years ago

Skiriki: Honestly, I think they’re more deserving of a spray bottle full of your kitties’ urine. They aren’t deserving your cats’ attention, even with claws.

Skiriki
Skiriki
8 years ago

Freemage: I dunno, I mean Didi is a mean biter when she feels weirded out. She has even bit me, the Hand That Feeds Her, though that was on her scale a “gentle nibble to tell me to stop touching her tummy, two and half strokes maximum per customer”. Her teeth are like needles and I got two round holes on my wrist even a week after.

What about throwing clumping kittylitter with litterbox scoopers as launching devices? Like Angry Birds, except… well.

dslucia
dslucia
8 years ago

Wow, JAQ couldn’t keep his sealion act up for even two posts? Poor show, even GribbleGoobers can sometimes do better than that.

occasional reader
occasional reader
8 years ago

Hello.

I say feminism is cancer because feminism is cancer.

I think your argument is invalid because feminists are feminists all the year long, not only from June 22th to July 22th.
See, i can make assertions like you. Because i can.

Have a nice day.

Just Asking!
Just Asking!
8 years ago

Looks like Freemage isn’t up to rebutting my argument. That’s okay I accept your surrender and implicit admission that I am correct. Better luck next time kiddo.

Then again, I cheated by having the facts on my side… feminists hate that!

Gaebolga
Gaebolga
8 years ago

Just Asking! wrote:

Where are all the feminists protesting unequal domestic violence law that require the removal or incarceration of the MAN in all incidents of domestic violence…… even when it was a woman hitting a man?

Freemage wrote:

Care to cite an actual law that does this?

Just Asking! wrote

Sorry kid but I won’t do your homework for you. It’s called Google look into it.

Funny how just three paragraphs earlier (or four, if you count the quote) you replied to Freemage’s assertion about anti-draft feminists with this:

Where are these anti-draft feminists? I haven’t seen them.

So why does Freemage have to “do your homework for you” when he makes a claim, and also “do his own homework” when you make a claim?

It’s almost like you can’t produce any examples to support your claims because your claims don’t actually have any evidence to support them. You know, like you’re just bullshitting and getting defensive when someone calls you on it.

Shocker.

Gaebolga
Gaebolga
8 years ago

occasional reader wrote:

I think your argument is invalid because feminists are feminists all the year long, not only from June 22th to July 22th.

But the very next month, feminism is leo!

Checkmate, cat-loving feminazis!

Kat
Kat
8 years ago

Mate check, femi-loving cat Nazis!

Ha, ha, three can play at that game!

weirwoodtreehugger
8 years ago

After feminism is done being Leo, it becomes Virgo. Virgo is “the virgin.” Does that mean feminism is incel?

PocketNerd
PocketNerd
8 years ago

Thus Spake Zaraweirwoodtreehugger:

After feminism is done being Leo, it becomes Virgo. Virgo is “the virgin.” Does that mean feminism is incel?

Clearly those wicked ffeeemale ffeminists snuck Virgo into the zodiac just to mock poor oppressed men who don’t get as much sex as they deserve!

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

I thought Virgo was the female virgin; that is, the only acceptable form of woman because she hasn’t yet been defiled by touching other men?

I haz a confuz. Redpill folks must be really smart, because keeping track of this stuff is haaaaaard.