It’s good to know that Men’s Rights Activists are taking on the issues that truly matter the most to men — like fictional princesses cucking “nice guys” in the plumbing business.
I found the meme above on A Voice for Men’s Facebook page, with this explanation:
Mario learns a hard lesson for white knighting and the Princess just learns…a hard lesson. This one is for fun.
But some of the commenters there had a hard time finding the humor in it.
Keep fighting the good fight against completely imaginary problems, MRAs. Excelsior!
There’s no “male shaming agenda”. It’s a Manocidal Vagenda. Get it right, jeez
Pffft hahaha. Excelsior indeed!
That Bowser cosplayer’s obviously no alpha, he cares too much (i.e. at all) about Mario. Which makes him, by irrefutable logic, also a mangina. /s
Also, that last commenter (the one with the Italian(?) username) mocking the other commenters for their (imagined) lack of sexual prowess is just…I want to laugh, but at the same time, it’s also part of the problem, y’know what I mean?
Ain’t toxic masculinity fun?
You know your life has no meaning when you call a fictional character a mangina.
What was Rapunzel really doing all those years in that tower?
Sleeping Beauty wasn’t really taking a long nap all those years, was she?
And don’t get me started on Snow White and those 7 bearded guys….
@Tara
Obviously, Sleeping Beauty wasn’t just taking a nap; the Prince bedded her (while she was still sleeping), and she bore him a child (again, while still sleeping), who dislodged the spinning-wheel needle from her finger when they tried to feed (mistaking her finger for her breast), breaking the spell. (Presumably, she then went on to bed an Alpha and bleed the Prince dry for child support.)
Also, one could argue that the Seven Dwarves were the original Men Going Their Own Way. (I’d rather not, of course, it would require me to internalize MGTOW philosophy.)
Even though I know it was originally an entirely separate game that Nintendo decided to turn into a Mario sequel, I always liked Mario 2 the best because you could play as Peach, rather than the goal being saving Peach. I liked how Peach could make longer jumps than the other characters by using her skirt as a sort of parachute. That’s got to be some sort of misandric feeemale privilege, right?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The “you can’t trust a kidnapped woman – she’s just trying to cuck you!” meme is at least as old as the Ramayana, where Prince Rama rescues his bride from a very bowser-like monster, then puts her through this terrifying and humiliating trial by fire thingy to force her to prove that she was faithful to him.
@LG
I wouldn’t exactly describe Ravana as ‘bowser-like’ in… really, any particular. He’s much more depicted as an evil but worthy foe – he’s conquered the universe, is a devotee of Shiva, and reigns over a beautiful and decadent civilization. The particular anxiety you’re talking about is present, specifically, in that Ravana is supposed to be the most attractive and alluring man in the world.
Still, y’know, kidnaps women and eats people (he is a rakshasa, after all). But the actual epic is a lot more complex than you’re making it out to be.
Rama’s actions are definitely harsh and unnecessary in a modern context, though – I just think the Ramayana shouldn’t be classed as ‘basically the plot of Mario.’
ughhh
doods
why is all of your evidence fictional
and why doesn’t that tell you something about your beliefs?
These people, I mean really. At least it looks like the guy Peach found actually cares about her by the way he’s talking to her like a human being, instead of being the trophy that Mario’s always after.
I just laughed at ‘boob-worshipping cult.’ He could have used all manner of terms for what he meant but no, he went for the sound-like-a-twelve-year-old option. Pahaha.
@LG
There’s a little bit more to that story. Rama of course was an incarnation of Vishnu, and his wife Sita was an incarnation of Lakshmi, Vishnu’s wife. So Rama knew that Sita had been faithful (read: had not been raped, because being raped = not being faithful) – they were deities and that’s just the kind of thing deities know about one another. Rama’s followers, however, demanded the trial by fire because they didn’t believe it.
It would be easy to interpret this as some kind of early lesson about blaming women for rape or assuming that they’ve been raped if they’ve spent a nonzero amount of time in the presence of a male entity of any kind, but the Ramayana doesn’t really make that connection. Nevertheless, there’s more to the story than just a dude not trusting his wife.
Seems like a good time to link this again:
Your Princess Is In Another Castle
This comic is ridiculous. Everyone knows Princess Peach was secretly hooking up with Toad.
I like boobs just as much as anyone else, but an entire cult based around boob-worship? Seems like that would be a little overboard
Fun fact: Nintendo has a conference room called Another Castle.
http://kotaku.com/5834386/the-coolest-things-in-nintendos-american-headquarters-and-one-uncool-thing
So I guess we’re all Minoan now? I can get behind that. They got way more style than we do.
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[Sorry, had to break the image url; can’t have NSFW pics up, even if they’re all historical and stuff. –DF]
I knew about the ”Peach is pretending to be kidnapped to have sex with Bowser” theory, but this is the first time i’ve seen him presented as a guy in a suit.
@Scildfreja
That would be ok. I like kilts/skirts/whatever much more than pants.
Although it might not work too well here in CO what with winter coming and everything. I actually wore my Utilikilt every day my senior year, but there were a couple of sub-zero days that getting to school and home kinda sucked
This needs to be stitched into one of those embroidery thingys you hang on the wall, and by the way, if any of you know a meme generator that creates memes of those things, let me know!
It’s not even just that they use fictional women as evidence. They use fictional women written my men as evidence.
Then they use said fictional women to mansplain female behavior to actual women.
Hi, all, I’ve been reading “We Hunted…” Since gamer gate first broke, first time commenting. I really enjoyed “Your Princess is in Another Castle” (Arthur Chu??). I used that piece and “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone” to introduce my granddaughter to the idea of watching your own back on social media.
http://i.imgur.com/s22ULEL.jpg
Best I could do.
From here
When I did my brief exploration of the world of Gamergate the most wonderfully bewildering thing was the Vivian James character. It was just so surreal.
“See, she agrees with us”
(I like her jumper though; I used to have one exactly like that)
I just noticed that Luigi is wearing an earring on his right ear in the first panel.
Does that symbolize anything?