Memeday Part Two: That’s racist as hell, A Voice for Men

I am literally hissing with anger at this. The gleeful slut-shaming misogyny, the racism, the false equivalence, the mathematical imprecision, the mutual exclusion, the disrespectful appropriation…

Yeah, IS he implying that’s a luxurious sum for a single parent and 7 kids?? The IRS Allowable Living Expenses National Standard for a family of 8 is $2873 per month, and even if you’re assuming hand-me-down clothes and cheaper (and probably poor-nutrition) meals for the kids, that number doesn’t include transportation, school supplies, childcare, any uncovered healthcare, emergencies, professional dress, or any enrichment or entertainment. Their standard budget for a household of one, meanwhile, is $570. The VA is very flawed and living costs obviously vary widely by location and medical coverage but Paul’s example still gives the veteran the better deal.

It’s also curious how Paul has managed to convince himself that women constantly CHOOSE to be poor single mothers, as if they treat it like a career path. There’s nothing wrong with single parenting, but there is always the possibility that, you know, their partners ditched them? (Sound familiar Paul?) Then there’s going through pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing, which is famously super effortless and not at all painful, expensive, time-consuming or exhausting. Of course if you’d rather not be pregnant you can always access the affordable contraception and abortion services all poor Americans enjoy on demand – oh, wait.

@Boogerghost – That really depends. Where she and her children live, for instance, would have a huge impact on how far that money would go cost of living varies pretty wildly in the US – Does she live in a large, coastal city? Does she live in the Midwest? Rural Mississippi? Rural Alaska?

Honestly, if she was receiving ALL possible benefits in the best possible circumstances, that’s a manageable sum*. I don’t know where that $2500 sum comes from, but if she’s receiving EBT AND WIC (do those stack?) AND lives in an area that allows doubling of benefits at Farmer’s Markets (and doesn’t live in a Farmer’s Market free food dessert) AND receives subsidized or sliding scale child care (not on a Federal level, but some counties and municipalities have that) AND lives in adequate subsidized housing / isn’t on a decade long wait list AND has the time, knowledge, and facilities to cook good food from scratch AND her children receive free or reduced price meals AND she lives in a city or county that prioritizes bridge meals during school breaks AND a bunch of other variables that are highly location and access dependent, she amd her children might be doing OK.

And I’m glad for that.

I think that it’s a good thing that the very poor, if we’re going to assume that’s what where her family would fall based upon her inclusion in this meme, can receive a goodnumber of benefits, especially when there are children involved (because fuck people who want to stress or starve children – that shit impacts their development, their futures, and the futures of any society of which they’re a part).

What does kind of suck is that there’s often a horrendously abrupt eligibility cut off. Ex: The children of someone with a very low wage job may qualify for nearly fully subsidized childcare in vetted and approved facilities while the children of someone with a just a low wage job get no subsidy and end up in something unlicensed and/or subject to erratic childcare which leads to their parent getting fired for missing work.

*I write the above as someone who literally could not have gone back to full time work and + part time classes without the benefit of subsidized childcare…and who really had to scramble when a $20/day raise bumped me up past the threshold.

Next up: The violence against women in war act (VAWWA). It’s where female combatants demand protection from the enemy by – you guessed it – fellow male combatants! Isn’t this fun? It’ll be the era of women in power – like Susan Rice – who went from college graduate to National Security Advisor – bypassing retired four star generals with decades of experience on her way – who now claims there are too many white men beneath her! YE – HAW!

Besides the gap between your thick thighs, ladies – here are some more gaps to discuss:

workplace death gap
war death gap
health/education/welfare gap
prison sentencing gap
suicide gap
high school graduation gap
alimony/child support gap
asset division gap
longevity gap
college graduation gap

Oh snap! All the above are just misogynistic men claiming victimhood! My bad! But can you imagine the stink from women – as we’ve witnessed countless times – countless times – if the above were reversed?!

And that’s why the world hates feminists. Its’ the hypocrisy – don’t cha know. It’s the double standards. Women demanded and men gave. It’s time for women to put down the misandric hammer and admit all men are superior to all women. Only then will men and women find peace.

Tara’s meme idea is EXCELLENT. I can do memes, but the thought of googling for Elam pics gives me pause, I’m afraid. David F. and others here are made of far stronger stuff than I 🙂

@skiriki

I clicked through. Wow! I read only part of it — I’ll read the rest later.

But even without reading the whole thing, I understood the big mistake that accuser Fernanda Lopes Aguilar made: beauty. Can’t have that among the philosophers!

Seriously, a friend told me that forty years ago she tried to have a career in philosophy while being beautiful (Philosophizing While Beautiful, or PWB), but those guys would have none of it. Using stealth (i.e., an initial instead of a first name, her masculine-sounding birth name as a middle name, and her married name as her last name — along the lines of “J. Jones Smith”), she managed to get a contract for a book on philosophy with an important scholarly press. Boy, was the director of the press surprised when he called up “J. Jones Smith,” and Smith was a woman! But the contract had been signed and the damage done. The book was indeed published.

Sounds as though nothing has changed in forty years?

Picture this meme:

[Photo of Paul Elam]

Paul Elam

Nasty Piece of Work?

or

Piece of Nasty Work?

Some inconvenient facts for Paulie and friends:

*$2500/month is $30,000/year. Poverty level for a family of 8 in the US is about $56,000/year.

*The majority of welfare recipients are white (40% white, 23% black).

*Most welfare families are in the labor force, and/or actively seeking work. They aren’t lying around suckling at the government teat.

*Babies are fucking expensive. Having another kid means a negative cash flow. It’s not a full time career path. Literally no one has ever said “Gee, it would be nice to bring in an additional $300 a month. I know! I’ll have another baby! Cha-ching!”

*Babies are a lot of work, from gestation to birth to childcare. You don’t just passively “open your legs” and hey presto. Single moms are probably the least lazy people on earth.

*Disabled veterans really don’t appreciate being used as props to score cheap rhetorical points, especially when it’s obvious you don’t give a shit about them otherwise. It’s insulting, and it’s disrespectful.

It should also be pointed out that Elam sponges off his girlfriend and grifts for a living (“security fees” for AVfM conferences, siphoning off White Ribbon donations, running a cult, ripping off vulnerable men to the tune of $90 an hour in exchange for terrible advice on coddling their anger, dodging responsibility, and abusing women). He’s also never served a day in the armed forces. In his own words, he was a “bad match for the military and uninterested in manual labor.”

Meanwhile, the welfare recipient in that photo is likely to be a home health aide, a bank teller, an adjunct professor, or a part-time retail worker working towards a degree. In other words, someone who makes a positive contribution to society.

They seem to think that children are just dolls they dress up and buy toys for. They don’t seem to realise that they have created the problem of single mums themselves with their incessant rape and ‘raw dogging’ women, who they believe should be criminalised for having abortions. Why are the men, for example, the father’s rights super hero guys who think it’s misandry if women get custody, doing nothing to be good fathers, instead withholding child support then calling the mother lazy if she can’t work and has to claim benefits?

@bluecat – yes, refugees very much so. “Why do they get X when homeless people get nothing?!” “Why do refugees get food and shelter and all that luxury when ‘our’ unemployed can barely get by?” (the homeless and unemployed that suddenly matter when they can be used to bludgeon others with).
Australia is currently trying to outdo everyone else with the world’s most gratuitously cruel and pointlessly life-destroying refugee policies. A couple of days ago the immigration minister (who resembles a brussels sprout)* claimed that refugees were illiterate, and (somehow) stealing jobs AND clogging up the unemployment queue – at the same time. All the more impressive when you consider that the govt doesn’t even allow them onshore.
Oops, I seem to have ranted somewhat :/
* my apologies to brussels sprouts

Mish: all I can say about your government is “it gets better”

But not if you sit on your ass; join the opposition, protest in the streets, and get them elected. And keep doing it.

MRAs: because why bother actually fighting for the rights you claim to support when you can just hide behind your keyboard and make disgusting memes about women and minorities?

@Mish,

http://i.imgur.com/idRMI71.jpg