The scene: A McDonald’s in Ottawa. A man orders a chicken sandwich. The woman behind the counter tells him they’re out. He calls her a bitch.
And then this happens:
[VIDEO REMOVED. Several people have come to me with information that made me question whether it was appropriate to post this video, and so I have removed the link. –DF]
It’s a little confusing, I’ll admit, but this is a film worth multiple viewings. Some of the highlights, in case you were thrown off by all the shouting.
- Dude trying repeatedly to “explain” to the woman behind the counter, who is calling the cops, that “bitch” is in fact a “proper English word.”
- Dude raising the important Men’s Rights issue of how come he can’t hit women but he can hit men?
- Dude raising the equally important Men’s Rights issue of how come women get all mad when men hold doors open for them?
- The unseen guy who tells angry dude “don’t even look over here for help” when angry dude turns to the crowd for support. “You’re on your own, buddy,” the unseen fellow adds.
- Dude positively AGHAST that someone would call the cops on him “cause I wanted proper service. And you’re not properly servicing me.”
- Dude realizing that “servicing” sounds vaguely salacious. and adding “maybe you should get on your knees.”
- The inevitable shout of “Worldstar” near the end.
I only wish we’d been able to see the guy get escorted off the premises by police, but, hey, they have to save something for the sequel, right?
That old Married To The Sea cartoon turned out to be pretty uncannily accurate, huh?
H/T — Thanks to r/againstmensrights for bringing this lovely video to my attention.
I had always assumed that whining MRA man-babies were exclusively an online phenomenon, but clearly they’re equally willing to be bleating self-righteous dicks in public too.
This is roughly how Falling Down started. Wonder if the guy saw it and thought it was an educational film.
Lurker turned commenter ACTIVATE. (pew)
That explaining that “the word bitch is a proper English word” is the perfect example of mansplaining. This guy really is an IRL MRA.
And then he jumped from getting a sandwich to whether he can punch a lady and then to “extra rice”.
By the way, I went to a McDonalds today and they got my drink order wrong. I went back up and let them know, they made me a new drink, and I thanked them and hoped they had a nice day.
Clearly I got special fe-ma-le privilege.
Also: “Dude, they’re oout.”
Dude, you have a lovely accent.
I would say I wish MRAs would just stop holding doors for women, but I don’t believe for a second that they’ve actually ever held that fucking door. They’re just outraged at the idea that some man somewhere has held a door for some woman.
So alpha. Much wow.
This is pathetic. I *would* like to know how the story ends, though.
Newsflash: It is also unacceptable to hit male cashiers because the restaurant is out of chicken sandwiches. Not being punched for no reason is not some extra special ladies-only right that we don’t deserve.
Newsflash special edition: Shouting misogynistic abuse at the low-paid customer service worker in front of you cannot make a chicken sandwich magically appear. They were out of sandwiches. There is nothing they could have done in the moment in order to instantaneously no longer be out of chicken sandwiches.
A few months ago I asked for no pickles on my burger at McDonalds. As usual, they left the pickles on.
I considered slapping the pickles onto the receipt right next to the “NO PICKLES” note, and leaving it on the table.
Then I remembered the person cleaning the tables wasn’t responsible and would be inconvenienced, so I grew the fuck up and got on with my day like an adult.
What a hill to die on. Poor dickhead of a soul.
@Daphne_B:
The sad thing is that I have seen Red Pillers claim that Foster from Falling Down is the hero, and that the ending was merely tacked on to appease cultural guardians.
I shouldn’t be surprised; they made the same misinterpretation with Fight Club.
@Viscaria:
Preach.
@AsAboveSoBelow – I would have liked to see the ending too. On the other hand, it was pretty hilarious that the cameraman stopped filming because his burger was ready. I hope he made a big show of enjoying it.
What is it with food, anyways, that sets MRAs off on these angry rants? Sammiches, pancake dude, the jalapeno mac ‘n’ cheese guy that Eyes on the Right referenced, that awful MGTOW chicken recipe…I guess it’s the same mechanism that drives their sexual entitlement. They can’t stand any biological need not being fulfilled on demand. They hate women as gatekeepers standing in the way of their gratification, and they also hate seeing women enjoying sex and food. How many zillions of manosphere rants have we seen lamenting “selfish” women eating in public, expecting men to pay for dinner, ordering anything more than a salad, unable to boil water, etc.? Somehow they’ve gotten the idea that sex and food just fall into women’s laps, while men have to sweat and suffer and die for theirs.
I’m waiting for them to start in on air, and how women breathing is misandry.
Lol, hilarious.
Reminds me of an undergrad class I was teaching where an MRA freaked out at me. The response from the other students was very heartening.
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
I think it’s something like a Law of Conservation of Douchery. We don’t have the same amount of gun nuts or religious zealots up here, so society makes up for it in other subcultural niches.
@ buttercup
We hunted the chicken burger for you?
Women exist for serving sandwiches. How else was this poor oppressed man supposed to react to woman’s shocking refusal to know her place?
You know what, I a woman, will admit that there are times when men holding the door pisses me off.
1. When the guy makes a huge production out of it. When I took the bus in grad school, there was this one guy who would sometimes be at the bus stop. When the bus pulled up and people started getting on, this douche would step out of line and make a sweeping bow at any woman who was getting on. See also, the guys who run past a woman and shove her aside so that they can “politely” open the door.
2. When they open the door, but stay standing in the way in the middle of the doorway, so you’ve got to squeeze past them if you want to go in. Sorry dude, I’m not sliding under your arm, I’m just going to use the other door.
3. When they open the door way too early. If I’m still 50 feet from the door, don’t open it and stand there making eye contact with me with a dumb expectant grin on your face. I’m not sprinting to the door, and when I finally get there I’m going to use the other one.
I’m so chivalrous I hold open revolving doors.
Meh. I like it when my husband opens doors for me, but I’ve opened doors for him plenty of times. My own personal rule is that you absolutely need to open a door for a stranger if they are juggling packages or children or pets, and any other situation can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
It all goes back to their mothers? She made them take their diarrhea medicine. She had a job so she wasn’t there when they got home from school. She made them hold doors open and pull out chairs. She made them go to cotillion. She was a bad cook. She was a good cook but now she’s gone and they have to cook for themselves. She was a good cook and all the women they’ve dated and/or had a committed relationship with have been lazy and/or lousy cooks which is horrible and all they want is to have the same food their mommy made them. She yells at them to do their own laundry and move out. She was simply not the idealized woman they were told by dad/tv a wife and mother must be or else she totally sucks and should be ashamed.
Excetera excetera, yada yada and such.
I open doors for everyone, or more accurately keep doors I use open for other users when needed.
I am working on the travel time evaluation to avoid being awkward.
It’s like watching a four year-old refusing to go to bed… I’m not sure whether I could bear seeing that irl. Too cringeworthy. :I
Consider the thoughts that must be swirling in this man’s head all day for him to go from “out of chicken sandwiches” to “what about the menz” that quickly. Sounds exhausting…
@Thiazin red, oh my god, do I ever hate big-production-door-opening-guy. And then you have the option to pretend to be grateful in order to get out of the situation as quickly as possible, which just reinforces for him that the poor soft weak ladies of the world are endlessly appreciative of his “help”; or you can actually show your annoyance and risk him going off on you about how he’s just trying to help and would it kill you to be grateful once in a while and this is why men don’t respect women like they used to. ARGH.
Temascos:
That made me laugh out loud. Hilarious but I hope you’re not starting something.
That man should be shamed into wearing a fucking bra – those tits bounced more than should be allowed in public spaces if he wants true equality… No woman would dare go out in public like that and expect not to be harassed and told she must want it….
This man is what happens when your mom tells you are really special and nice girls don’t really care if you shower or have money, or live in her basement forever…a nice girl will come along who will happily live in mom’s basement and order all his chicken wings and beer and make his samwhiches – if he types angrily enough on MGTOW forums, he’ll prove mom wrong.
Brit mamotheeers are no doubt familiar with the
routine. But that’s not a gender thing, it’s just the doorway equivalent of not taking the last After Eight Mint.