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We’ve met Ian Ironwood before, a Men’s Rights Activist and sexbot enthusiast with retrograde views on gender and a taste for similarly retro art from the fifties. Ironwood is a prodigious meme-maker, but one with a tendency to repeat himself.
One of his primary themes — you might even call it an obsession — is the notion that HA HA FEMINISTS, NO MAN WILL EVER WANT YOU. Today, we’ll examine just how Ironwood conveys this totally super original notion with the help of old magazine illustrations.
Ugh, so many typos, I should go to bed.
Think, not thinks, dang it…..
But I thought feminists were all wrinkly, portly, rainbow haired uggos. What’s with all the high HBs in the memes? Obviously, physical characteristics are strongly correlated to personal philosophies. Therefore, the hotties with the cats mustn’t be feminists. Right?
Would that it were that easy tho. Imagine if every misogynist (and only them) had a neckbeard. I wouldn’t hafta shave mine anymore! Or if every racist was a swole dude born with swastika tats. So much simpler
Here we see a future feminist left with no one but her robo-kitties for companionship because all the men prefer sexbots:
CurrentDog snores, farts, and hogs the bed. A stepladder helps me reach high things. So what exactly am I missing out on by not being married to “Ironwood’s” ilk?
*fake pouts* I didn’t want to marry a sadsack like Ian Ironwood anyway. I don’t wake up alone…I wake up to my dog nipping at my appendages to persuade me to take him out.
@SFHC: I know right? Bi fem here
Oh gawd, that Cupcake, men of quality one is hilarious! (Unintentionally, of course.)
What if we sold them feminist sexbots? Nothing really high-tech, just a vibrating fleshlight with a speaker and a selection of pre-recorded feminist quotes it’s going to play really loud after a random delay.
Yeah… like my (definitely “quality” by all stupid MRA standards, not that it matters) partner is even crazier about cats than I am. And he’s read more feminism books than me, and is really supportive of feminism.
One thing is true about my case, we’re not getting married. We’re not into that stuff and we’re happy this way.
All this said, if I hadn’t found I’m happy with, I’d be totally OK with singlehood. I actually enjoy being alone, I love freedom and I love having time to spend travelling and with friends. And cats are awesome btw.
Some better curses:
“I hope your foundation never matches your neck”
“I hope you always find a pebble in your left dress shoe”
“May your game controller’s right stick ever so slightly list to the left”
“May you misplace your wallet just long enough to make you late for an important appointment”
“A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality”
“May you always find white pet hair on your black dress clothes.”
“May you be short a critical ingredient for every recipe.”
“May your milk be always on the eve of its expiry date.”
That’s cold. This would be the single most frustrating thing.
Well I guess I should start something for dinner. Well maybe I’ll make taco salad.
[out of tortilla chips]
Ah screw it, I’ll run to the store to get tortilla chips, a taco salad sounds great today.
[30 minutes later, returning home with tortilla chips]
Awesome, now to just tear up that lettuce and…
[out of lettuce]
God dammit, then I will have nachos.
[out of cheese]
I will have chips and salsa!
[out of salsa]
I will have dry tortilla chips.
[unsalted]
*sob*
Nooooooooo!
Mr. Ironwood, I clearly did not think this one through — my feminism, that is.
I had no idea that I had to choose either a man or my happiness and self-respect.
It’s not as though antifeminists have been yelling, “You’ll die alone and unloved!!!” since the first woman said no to the patriarchy.
And happiness and self-respect are, I’m sure, overrated.
Please, Mr. Ironwood, I’ve reconsidered. I definitely need a man, one of your high caliber. I’ve thrown any idea of happiness and self-respect out the window. Gone. Vanished. (Actually, I live in a big city. I just glanced out the window and I saw another woman pick up my idea from where it lay on the sidewalk, straighten out the dents in it, and walk away with it, smiling.)
Please, Mr. Ironwood, won’t you meet me this evening at my neighborhood cafe in San Francisco, where I currently reside? It’s at the corner of Fake & Any. I’ll bring a wedding dress. You of course will have to pay for my dinner.
Looking forward!
varalys: it took one of my cats six months to accept that the floozie taking her spot in the bed she graciously allowed me to sleep in was here to stay. Six months of pooping in inappropriate places while I was present just to show me the error of my ways.
Now she alternates between my lap and my girlfriend’s.
Oh, I really needed all of this – thanks, everyone. And hello, BoTurtle! (what an adorable name).
I wonder if we should use Mr Ironwood’s memes as recruiting posters? They are gorgeous.
Like all of you, I fear that I have been doing feminism wrong. Or womanhood. Or life. I think WWTH nailed it, though – these memes are really directed at men with worldviews like Ironwood’s. If you can call it a “worldview”, that is.
I find it hilarious how this guy thinks he speaks for all men, as though they were just interchangeable cogs. #NotAllMen, Ian.
Oh no, I’m a feminist man, now I can’t get married!
Guess I’ll just stick to being the guy who spoils dogs rotten with headpats and is a weeb. Woe is me, woe indeed.
@Ooglyboggles – oh my lordy can you imagine MRAs’ reactions to the PalmTop Taiga???? 😀 😀 XD
@Mish
A flawed yet assertive chick who actually is as active in her relationship as the mc? Someone who actually undergoes change and has her own wants? They’d be appalled at such an unruly character.
@Ooglyboggles – I know, right?!! And she’s fiercely loyal to her friends (male and female). And she … pats the mc on the head and bosses him around XD
@Mish
Such abuse
Look at the hands
They represent the show’s insidious creators and their feminist agenda, forcing such an unhealthy gender dynamic
And look,
http://24.media.tumblr.com/59146e46a34d09798ac993ca612cac39/tumblr_n43on9J2X91riunfto3_500.gif
They even had the huevos to have them both be assertive in their confessions. It’s one thing to have the MC not be the one to confess and have her stuttering like a child, but to have them both be in sync to each other’s feelings, like they consider each other equals, is simply appalling.
And worst of all,
http://cdn.awwni.me/nkmn.jpg
He’s too far gone. Look at his smile. That’s the smile of the beta male, it’s too late, far too late…
Hey, I actually am a lonely, bitter feminist, but I feel like this is still infinitely preferable to marrying or even dating an antifeminist. Or even being in the same room with one for more than a couple of minutes, ick.
When they’re not going on about how no man will ever want a feminist, they’re insisting to feminist men that none of those feminist women will ever really fuck them.
Do…do they think that’s going to work?
@LG.
Apparently so. But then again wouldn’t that be against freedom to fuck whoever they want, at least according to their ideology?
I only saw maybe the first episode of ‘Toradora!’ years ago but I agree that MRAs would hate it. Not only for the reasons already list but they would hate the fact that Ryūji Takasu is a nice guy even though people fear him due to the tough guy look he inherited from his Yakuza father.