So A Voice for Men has decided to use a picture of a disabled veteran … to attack black single mothers.
https://twitter.com/AVoiceforMen/status/731667484172935169
The meme was posted on the AVFM Facebook page as well.
The US treats its veterans horribly. But using the plight of wounded and disabled veterans in order to push a blatantly racist and misogynistic agenda is, well, calling it “cynical” would be a massive understatement.
And what exactly has the Men’s Rights movement ever done to help veterans?
Oh, that’s right: Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Looking at elams history it seems he is the inspiration for much of president regan’s rhetoric.
I know he was not but I imagine that he is what regan could have been thinking.
Sort of on topic:
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2016/05/18/is-michelle-jealous-of-melania-catty-stereotypes-and-racist-cartoons/
If that’s a service connected disability there’s no way in hell that person wouldn’t be considered 100% disabled. That gives you easily double the amount AVFM is suggesting. Plus other benefits such as automobile allowance and, if he rents, a voucher. Not saying whether or not that’s sufficient to meet a vet’s needs and I’m not weighing in on whatever benefits they’re suggesting the black family in that meme are receiving, but this is flat-out dishonest in addition to being obviously racist.
Oh and props for them erasing female veterans and veterans of color. Good job with that, you fake patriots.
I just witnessed some great misandry at the most sacred of all man spaces. a sporting event I was at a Twins game and they had a feature called suns out guns out mostly showing men with no shirts. Then the camera went to a woman who looked like a bodybuilder flexing her biceps. Then they kept showing her. Mwah haha!!!
My uncle and aunt also run a specialty garage where they add on stuff to vehicles to make them more accessible to disabled people, like making them easier to drive, easier to load up their wheelchairs, etc.
There’s actually a knob that you can attach to your steering wheel that helps you steer if you’re missing an arm, or even a left-foot gas pedal if you are missing a leg and such. Of course, it requires training to use, and you have to go through a specialty driving school to learn how to use it before it can be attached to your vehicle for your personal use.
And guess what? These modifications are often covered by insurance, benefits, or the VA.
I’m really confused about what it is these guys think they want.
They want to have sex on demand with women, but don’t want to use condoms, but don’t want the women to get pregnant, but call women who use contraception sluts and want women who have abortions to be punished for it.
If they have children they want free access to them, but don’t want to do any of the domestic work associated with raising them and don’t want to pay any money toward housing and feeding them.
Mothers in a relationship with a man are parasites, mothers not in a relationship with a man are sluts, women who aren’t mothers are unnatural and denying their biological destiny. Oh, and a woman who won’t have sex with them is a frigid snob…and one who will is a manipulative slut.
If someone went up to them and said “So, describe your ideal woman. Someone who is and does exactly what you want”, what the hell would they say?
@ Tosca
They’d describe one of their precious sexbots. The ones that are going to be on the market aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyy day now.
OT: meta mansplaining:
@Tosca I think the answer would be ‘a paranoid wreck who never feels like they could be good enough for me and is constantly having to prove themselves worthy of my approval’ Sadly I think the inconsistencies are design and not flaw.
I get up this morning and there are GOODIES awaiting. Moggie, that mansplaining is pure gold. The original tweet is funny on its own; but then I saw the response, and nearly lost my coffee. As Bart Simpson would say “Oh, the ironing!”
Scildfreja, that was exactly what I was thinking. You’re a genius, that’s all there is to it 🙂
numerobis, I hope you’re right about things getting better. I’m certainly not just sitting around ‘on my ass’ as you put it 😛 – but I’m not giving much visible support to the main opposition. They started the current refugee policy when they were in govt. and they’re not giving any indication that they plan to change it if they win this time. The Greens, however, are gaining force and may end up with enough seats to be able to have real impact on whoever wins. That’s where most of my support goes.
A monthly allowance to meet basic needs is not a reward. Getting blown up is not winning the lottery; neither is having five kids. “Deserving” has absolutely nothing to do with it, it’s just about “How much does this person need to survive, and how much can we give them?”
Life as a disabled vet is expensive. So is life with five kids. Neither of these people are living the good life on the income shown.
(Never mind the fact that we don’t even know who these people are – he could have lost his legs in a bike accident and she could be fostering or adopting those kids. I’m not about to take Paul Elam’s word for it.)
@Tosca
They want women to bear the blame for every shitty thing in history. They want immunity from having to care about how others respond to their actions. They want all the power, and none of the responsibility.
@Tosca – I think of Lundy Bancroft saying that abusive men aren’t abusive because they’re angry; they’re angry because they’re abusive. They will always be angry at women, because there is no state in which a woman can exist, no way in which she can live her life, that will keep them happy.
@Moggie – Absolutely brilliant.
OT — but I (almost) can’t help myself. This woman escaped several years of sex slavery and ran a triathlon from Mexico to DC, following a human trafficking route, to call attention to the plight of humans being trafficked!
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/world/human-trafficking-norma-bastidas-triathlon-record/index.html
Got to this site from clicking on the very amusing “Mansplaining” link and just kept clicking.
Trigger warning for reference to sexual violence.
Oh, KKK, what a charming photo.
My boyfriend says they’re emerging from the depths of hell.
I say that it’s a highly sexual photo and not in a good way. Or possibly demons being born. Is it just me???
Trigger warning for reference to sexual violence.
They want a woman who is a shapeshifter that can match their ideas of a perfect 10, a personality-shifter that can match their ideas of a perfect submissive, can become pregnant or not on demand, can read both their conscious and subconscious mind perfectly even when not present, has the ability to warp the local reality to match their expectations, is absolutely devoted and obedient to them, and never ever allows them to be aware of any of those supernatural powers to avoid making them feel inferior.
And then they’d just get angry and abuse such a woman for failing to do anything to justify abusing her. Because in the end, what they feel they “need” is a perfect being who exists only for them to abuse, but that merely feeds into their anger and/or hatred addiction.
@Scildfreja, that’s magnificent.
The mansplaining bloke (Mr Clarke above) is claiming his tweet was deliberate irony.
Looking at his TL, I’m inclined to believe him, and if so, a tweet of genius.
That’s exactly the thing, @Tosca, their perfect woman is still someone they want to HATE and BLAME and SHAME. Yeah, they want her to submit to gender roles and have sex with them and be conventically attractive and takes care of herself – but they also want to berate and mock her for her for being a lazy housewife and a stupid girly girl who has stupid interests and likes make up and is just so hystrical about her looks and is a slut. It’s a feature, it’s part of the thing
A more subdued version of this happens in our society at large, femmine women are treated as “lame” and their girly interests, hobbies, jobs and aspirations are treated as inherently lesser then the masculine. But more masculine women are mocked, and berated and harassed and pressured to become femmine, and those lesser girly stuff are constatly being shoved as the only good option for women.
There’s no winning formula for a woman in the game of sexism
@Moggie:
That’s a lovely tweet, but I can’t look at it without noticing that someone’s phone is about to run out of battery and that makes me anxious. Whomever you are, please plug your screenshot into the charger.
@EJ (The Other One):
You’re adorable 🙂
@Moggie
I laughed so hard at that tweet that I got burning coffee on my knees and it burns.
@Tosca
I think they already have it. Given that the only thing these people seem able and willing to do is yell at, blame, threaten, shame, etc, women… Well, they already have everything they need. They wouldn’t have it any other way. Actually, any other way would lead them to keep doing the exact same thing. They’re the witch-hunters of this era, they’ll just keep looking for new dumb reasons to do… whatever it is they actually do.
@Victorious Parasol
I actually can’t wait for sexbots to be a thing. ’cause IF that ever happens, their precious INVISIBLE HAND will also make male bots, gay bots, etc happen. And then we’ll be able to stare in awe as Paul Elam starts A Voice For Robotic Men, a site entirely dedicated to the woes of male bots abused by those mean women (or maybe even female bots). And then the Red Pill guys are gonna go full circle when their apocalyptic gynocratic theories involve actual robots, that is gonna be PRICELESS.
Every smartphone screenshot on the internet has dangerously low battery in it. What’s up with that?
The internet is clearly stealing your phones batteries any time you plug your phone in to sync. What else keeps the internet charged, after all? What is this, battery socialism?
@Sinkable John, re: Robot Uprising
… I had never thought of what they would do if there were actually sexbots for both men and women. That is brilliant.
I guess I had better get back to work on that general cognition problem!
Can we just plug the android sexbots into the gynoid sexbots, close the door, and declare sex a solved problem?