With a self-professed “pussy grabber” now living in the White House, you’d think the reactionary douchebags at reactionary douchebag central, Return of Kings, would be feeling pretty chuffed.
Not so much. While Trump signs anti-abortion executive orders and talks about gutting the Violence Against Women Act, the fellas at RoK are worried that feminists are coming for their balls. Chemically speaking, that is.
In a recent post, regular RoK contributor Corey Savage takes a wildly paranoid look at what he calls “10 Feminist Fantasies That Could Become A Reality In The Near Future.”
Ignoring standard feminist fantasies like, let’s say, “getting through a day without some dude on the internet threatening to rape you because you won’t agree that rape culture is a myth” or “setting aside a weekend to binge-watch the 4th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the third time,” Savage decides to treat us to what seems to be a trip through his weirdest fears, some of which might actually be repressed desires.
So what is Savage worried about? Everything from polyandry to “consent forms” for sex. And did I mention chemical castration?
Here are some of the highlights from his list.
Helping women will become a hate crime:
After complaining about a UK law that supposedly bans men from trying to pick up women in public (it doesn’t, actually), Savage warns his readers, based on absolutely nothing, that such laws
might spread to the rest of the West and expand to include other misogynist offenses including: looking at a woman (what feminists call “stare rape”), calling a trans-woman a he (there’s already a similar law in New York), arguing with women online, manspreading, mansplaining, helping a woman, and so on.
Government-Sponsored Feminist Tribunals
It might be a little tough to convict men of such offenses as manspreading or aggravated woman-helping in a regular court. Savage concludes that the government will therefore set up a whole new court system just to screw over men, a system of feminist “tribunals similar to the kangaroo courts in universities and HR departments at workplaces, all in the name of creating a harmonious society free of hate.”
Non-contact Sex
Consider that we already live in a world where walking past some deranged woman will get you accused of sexual assault. In the future, all physical contact with women may become sternly discouraged or even forbidden that more men will retreat to porn and sexbots as alternatives.
I’m pretty sure that quite a few men (and plenty of non-men as well) already use porn and a wide assortment of sex toys. Also phone sex, sexting, their own vivid imaginations, and so on and so on. “Non-contact sex” has been around as long as “contact sex.”
Bachelor taxes:
An old Men’s Rights favorite boogeyman!
With the drop in number of men who are [marrying] that coincides with the rising number of single mothers who need to leech the welfare state, it’s not too unreasonable to expect a push for bachelor tax that will penalize men who refuse to put a ring on an aging, post-slut sow.
Castration:
Well, “castration” of a chemical kind.
[D]ocile and compliant dogs are the ideal that feminists aim for in their efforts to domesticate men.… If all men are violent hooligans and rapists as some feminists claim, then the next logical step is to let the government control men’s testosterone levels to an “acceptable” level.
And then we come to the camps, and not the fun kind.
Feminist Re-Education Camps:
[I]t won’t be long before men who have been found guilty of misogynist hate crimes to end up in re-education camps. We already have sensitivity training in jobs while colleges are adding courses on toxic masculinity to re-define what it is to be a man on feminist terms. It probably won’t be long before “toxic masculinity” is added to DSM as a mental disorder (in place of homosexuality) and treated like a disease in mental health institutions.
I have to admit that I’m pretty impressed with the way he slipped a little gratuitous homophobia into that last sentence.
Now, if men resist all these evil feminist initiatives, Savage warns, they may well find themselves in even worse kinds of camps. Namely, concentration Camps
No man, no problem! If you’re wondering how feminists could even achieve this, know that there is already an army of goons called the police who will gladly do as they’re told to maintain the gynocentric order.
It’s hard not to wonder if Savage and his Manospherean pals actually live in the same reality as the rest of us.
Here for example, is a piciture of Donald Trump signing an executive order imposing a “global gag rule” that will cut off funding to international organizations that evenso much as mention abortion.
I’m having a little trouble finding the “gynocentric order” in this picture.
Clearly, some men live rich fantasy lives indeed. No matter how much power they wield, regardless of how much privilege they have, it is never enough because they are the ones being persecuted or in danger of being persecuted.
Unfortunately one of these men is currently occupying the office of President of the United States.
These guys seem to have a lot of free time. Wonder if I could get them to do my laundry.
Nah. They’d put my black bra in the same load as my husband’s black jeans.
‘Feminazis’ will be the evil establishment according to these guys no matter what happens tbh.
You think they’ll still be bitching about that one guy who lost his reputation for saying ‘women have different brains lel’ at a conference about gender equality in STEM, even after Trump’s literally silenced a bunch of public services on the science stuff?
Cuz chances are very good, to take a quote from one of the games I’m gonna have to sink into to escape this reality.
This is belligerent drunk me, signing out 😉
All this panic about things that will never happen is SO “alpha”.
Yes, isn’t it horrible they have to go through sensitivity training on campuses, so that the men know they’re not supposed to go around grabbing the women wherever and whenever they want? That’s so awful, I think I might cry.
My campus has regular Title IX training, but one thing it has never included is sensitivity training. I haven’t known anyone on the campuses I’ve frequented (which is several) that have to go through sensitivity training unless they violate some sort of Title IX norm, and get caught doing it. The sensitivity training usually is put in place so they don’t have to suffer any really serious consequences. They just have to go do this thing that annoys them for a short time, and then back on the job.
And our Title IX training really is pretty limited. Just give the basics of how not to rape someone, and go. Sensitivity is never a part of it. There is no discussion of everyday sexism, or any suggestion that women are actually people, just that you aren’t allowed to use them for sexbots on campus.
…says a man who will never have to worry that ANY woman in her right mind (or even out of it altogether) will want his sorry ass.
As luck would have it, we don’t claim that. But Roosh V does. In fact, he encourages it. And it seems he would also encourage destroying other men’s testes, if all the “cuck”-yelling is any indication. Any man who isn’t in line with the ROK “philosophy” (note the quotes, there for a reason) must get his nuts cracked on the regular, according to Roosh & Co.
Actually, that’s not a bad idea.
Especially since these guys think toxic masculinity is the only “real” kind, and that anyone who lives by anything else is a gay-ass cuck.
Are the police cowed by women into doing their bidding? Or is the police force of the near future female? I’m trying to figure out how men are going to be forced into these camps without the complicity of the cops, but the cops in my neck of the woods have an epic rape kit backlog because rape just isn’t that big of a deal to them to be worth fully investigating. I find it difficult to believe that a police force that can’t be fucked to investigate reported physical rapes are going to enforce “stare rape” laws in the way this dude fantasizes.
I wonder, though, what is the explanation for the rape kit backlog in these dudes’ fevered imaginations. If the world is so stacked against them that not getting notarized consent in triplicate opens them up to a false rape charge, how do they explain all of the actual rape charges that are not being filed because of the rape kit backlog?
This almost seems like a quaint throwback to the days of yore when the poison these gentlemen spew was somewhat limited to a handful of online forums, and not, y’know, right out front leading the world formerly known as “free”.
Hey, that reminds me… It’s been over a year since I’ve binge watched BtVS. Time to hit Netflix.
Ftfy.
Which feminists are these? I’ve never heard anyone say this before. Except maybe another manurespherian.
Pictured
I also found evidence of some evil feminists oppressing a man after turning him into a dog.
http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/10/65/53/2317024/5/1024×1024.jpg
Oh no! Women have more rights now than they did 100 years ago. Therefore — as inevitably as the day follows the night (or is it the other way around?) — soon, so very soon, they will have more rights than men!
Already, they refuse to date men who don’t meet their requirements. What a travesty!
Logically, this means that soon noncompliant men will be tossed into concentration camps. Say goodbye to your balls, bro!
PS: Whenever I read this kind of screed, I’m reminded of grade school history class, where I learned that anti-women’s suffrage men shouted about (and wrote about and drew cartoons about) “Petticoat government!” Apparently that was a thing that should never, ever come to pass.
I’m going to go ahead and guess his sensitivity training didn’t have as much effect as HR was hoping it would.
Poor, sad, sorry sack of woebegone shit.
But, but, HR made him sit through a 5-minute workplace harassment video and it talked about leering for at least 10 seconds!
Much is the world is sliding toward fascism and these assclowns are still mad at Mom.
TW insensitive parents and an oops
I posted this to my father’s FB in response to an image macro trying to shame protesters. He had posted an image of a girl in a Muslim country facing something terrible related to the treatment of women. It was the usual “why are you complaining when over there…”
I regret the “stupid”. I’m working on the ablism too.
I worry about going too far with my parents but the stakes are too high. I think there is a “best methods” with family but I could not write that book.
Not entirely on-topic, but I’ve been biting my lip for a little while. You introduced this line of questioning. Sorry about this, but…
Buffy season 4 is the prequels. Nowhere near as bad, because Whedon is way better than Lucas. But I don’t know any Buffy fan who, given a weekend, would rewatch s4. Maybe I’ve missed a clever joke. Certainly I’ve rewatched s4 and there are moments that I think “I’d forgotten this was here”, but when the best thing i can say about s4 is that i like how the romantic lead checks his rear view and wing mirrors realistically, I hope you’ll take my point. You picked the wrong number.
(If there are s4 fans out there, I’d love to hear from you, because I’d love to love this season. Just maybe not taking up David’s space – let’s regroup.)
Ok, rant over. Sorry.
@WWTH
Loving the Feminist Tribunal pic. I’m assuming there’s saucers of milk and warm places to sit available behind the scenes, for when the jurors need a break.
@WWTH
And well done that cat, performing CPR on a collapsed dog, despite the distracting onlookers.
I love the post about Bachelor Tax, that already exists numbnuts: Married couples receive a variety of deferential tax benefits that two bachelors living together could not access.
Is he making that up, or is he blowing something 1 person said out of all proportion? There is no other option
OK, what law is he willfully misunderstanding now?
Just throwing every antifeminist bugbear at the wall…
Not completely free of hate. We’ll still despise you in Katie’s Murica
Cos that totally has happened
So, every guy has to get married to some, any, woman? Or only men who get someone pregnant? Or…
Keep frame, bro. AWALT!
And women’s testosterone levels? I’ll wait…
The DSM has to replace anything it delists?
Bruh…
These wild stories serve a purpose. They tell men that abuse and oppression of women is justified. They tell them that that anything they do to a woman is justified. They tell each other these lies to encourage hate and violence. It’s propaganda and it works.
The bit about the bachelor tax reminds me of something I read about classical Sparta, that Spartiate men who stayed single much past thirty (which was the earliest they were allowed to marry) would be roughed up and mocked on the streets by women.
I think in most cities you could stay single as long as your dad would put up with it, though.
All that time and effort expended by Daryush and his sad band of would be pillagers hiding in their mothers basements, when a simple “I’m Daryush, and I’m a eurotophobiac” would make the same point.
Weatherwax,
In some ways season 4 was one of the weaker ones. The Initiative/Adam were the least compelling Big Bad. It had two of the weakest episodes with Beer Bad (why do a very special episode about the dangers of drinking that kind of sucks when you actually managed to do a good one with Reptile Boy back in season 2?) and Pangs (no, white people show. Don’t try to write about indigenous issues unless you’re going to do it very carefully). And did anyone ever give a shit about Riley? The only time I ever really cared about him is that he was a rape victim when Faith took Buffy’s body and he wasn’t having sex with the person he thought he was. I wish the show had actually acknowledged that.
But there were some highlights for sure. It also had two of my favorite episodes. Hush was innovative and creepy as fuck. Superstar was just awesome. Especially the credits they reworked for the episode. Anya is one of my favorite characters, if not my favorite and this is the season she became a major part of the cast. Plus, Restless is the only good dream sequence episode of a TV show that I’ve ever seen. Usually I hate them, but Restless captured the vibe of actual dreams and it advanced the plot by introducing the origin of slayers and hinting at the arrival of Dawn. I also like that it didn’t slut shame Buffy for sleeping with Parker and getting dumped and I like that Willow coming out and getting together with Tara wasn’t treated like that huge of a deal and wasn’t exploited for the male gaze.
Overall, the season is a mixed bag. It’s difficult for shows to make the transition from high school to adulthood and Buffy managed it about as well as could be expected. It could’ve been far worse. But YMMV. It’s my favorite show so problems and all, I’m gonna have a positive bias.