So the people who brought us the Women’s March on Washington have another big idea: A general strike of all American women. So far the idea looks to be just that, an idea; they haven’t even picked a date yet.
But if they pull it off, this act of collective resistance could have huge consequences. Ask the people of Iceland, or at least the older ones: That county had its own day-long women’s strike in 1975 which basically rocked the country to its core as a generation of men learned that women play an essential role in the economy, a fact that many of the world’s misogynists still refuse to believe.
Speaking of which, you may wonder what the misogynists of today think of the idea of a Woman’s Strike.
I took a peek into the Men’s Rights subreddit and found that the fellows there are mostly supportive of the idea, though for reasons far different than the strike’s organizers: MRAs, many of whom seem to think that women don’t do anything but gobble bon-bons while watching The View, are fairly confident that no one would even notice if each and every women vanished from the workplace and/or stopped doing unpaid work at home.
In the Men’s Right subreddit, our old friend ImnotMRAbut posted about the proposed ban under a headline written in the form of a question:
Someone called liquid_j asked “is there room for negotiation? Can we call it like a week? Maybe two?”
Another old friend, ThePigmanAgain, offered a similar take, suggesting that
They should make it a whole year, in my view. Let’s face it, apart from the nurses, we really don’t need women for anything.
Meanwhile, factspissyouoff found himself feeling pretty pissed off at all those women who think their lives amount to anything:
Come on, Miggs. You’re trying too hard now.
ahmigah there’s so much to reply to here
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First one! Atomic Ant! You say that mans will be more than happy to fill the jobs left by women? You too, huh, MGTOWDevolutionary?
Eat science, evildoer!
‘Problem for an entire gender’: Boys, men not adapting to changing job market
Opportunities in female-dominated industries like elder care on the rise, but men staying away
Know why men aren’t lining up to do these “feminine” jobs? ‘Cause they’re afraid of the status loss associated with it! (e.g. afraid of being called manginas!) Thanks for contributing to shitting on men who need help, @MGTOWR! Well done, drawing men to your cause!
Stay tuned for more episodes of Things MGTOWs Get Wrong!
…Now I kinda want a shirt with Fluttershy that says, “Eat science, evildoer!” Even if it’s an inside joke that no one else will get.
@MGTOWRevolutionary
Still no logic to back up your shit up I see. Nor reason. Weak. Pathetic. There is no strength to you. No reason at all to take you seriously.
You can’t let yourself go your own way because you need your petty dominance displays. You still need female people. You need to try to make a whole group pay for whatever individuals did to upset you.
Your weakness and dependence is sad. Your bigotry disgusting. Your inability to articulate what actually bothers you drives you to a group because you have nothing else when winning is prized over being correct about reality. You defeat yourself.
OK, I lied–I’ve put up one more post on economic history, addressing this very issue:
http://weloveeconomichistory.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/ok-i-liedi-haveone-more-thing-to-say.html
Now I’m’a just slice out the funny bits and sass the fuck outta’em.
Oh really? Care to give me a citation on that, Mr. Logic? I’d like to see the ANOVA on those studies.
(note: you can’t, cause they don’t exist. Every single “men are more logical” study that’s been done admits that its conclusions are biased and more work needs to be done.
Saying “men are more logical ’cause science!” does nothing but reveal that you’ve never read real science, and get all your knowledge from nonsense blogs and crap pop sci magazines)
Taking credit for other peoples’ work, huh? You’re as bad as Trump. What’ve you done?
Hee! He’s like a shitty, shitty Marxist. Throw off your chains, fellow mans! Overthrow the feeemale and let us form a grand collective of testosterone and super-reason and tactical-grip lip balm!
Only in the mind of a MGTOW does “the president is an autocratic sexist asshole” equal “we asshole sexist autocrats are the resistance!” Honey, you don’t know what resistance means.
They keep on saying that this happens all the time. I have literally never seen this happen in my circle of family or friends, ever. I have seen a fairly alphabroman cousin-in-law cheat on his wife, my cousin, while also trying to have a baby.
Note how I don’t extend this to saying that all men are cheating pigs, MGTOWman! Because I’m not a shitty solipsist incapable of realizing that my perspective is subjective and biased.
You should try it sometime!
Buy my testosterone cream and drink lots of juice, and you can be a manly man again! And women will swarm all over you! ᵒʰ ᵍᵒᵈ ʷʰʸ ᵈᵒᶰ’ᵗ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᶫᶦᵏᵉ ᵐʸ ʲᵘᶦᶜᵉ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵗᵉˢᵗᵒˢᵗᵉʳᵒᶰᵉ ᶜʳᵉᵃᵐ
Oh really
Go fight this lady, then, ya little weasel:
http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/samantha-swords-1.jpg
She’s a World Champion Swordswoman. Champion of the 2013 Invitational.
Turns out that when you strip away the sexist assumptions of our culture in favour of a more egalitarian model (Such as that in the SCA) we end up about equal!
Ohmigosh, a man claiming to have transcended the limitations of biology to become purely objective? What a novel concept! Haven’t ever experienced a man suggesting that before, no sirree!
I will reiterate what Iv’e said elsewhere – anytime someone claims to have “transcended their biological limitations”, you can be damn sure that they’ve just surrendered to them and can’t tell the difference.
(And yes, I know you’re talking about transcending the desire for sex. You’ve just sublimated that desire into hate. That’s extremely biological, and you’ve decided to just give in to it.)
“You spit on anyone who doesn’t conform to the stereotype I think you’re applying! Join me men, or I’ll spit on you for not conforming to my stereotype!”
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@kupo, http://i.imgflip.com/1j8mch.jpg
@Mgtow
So since you’re scared of women despite saying men like me are gods, does that mean women are god slayers?
MGTOWR likening himself and his movement to gods among us is the biggest laugh I’ve had all day!
This thread has been surprisingly entertaining.
In other news, many women I’ve spoken with are choosing to perform a full economic boycott the week/day of the strike. Many teachers and health care workers are too ethical to strike (I don’t find that suprising). I think the general consensus has been, strike if you can, represent for those who cannot, and boycott at the least (no purchases for that day or that week).
I found a picture of a scientist Fluttershy and used memegenerator to make this:
I doubt she would work for Aperture. Or maybe she would, then take over Aperture and make it better.
The original is here:
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic/forum/post/199799/4/fashion-pony-contest
http://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder148/500x/75477148.jpg
It’s funny how narrow MGTOW viewpoints are. Like, I currently live with my partner of more than 2 years and her boyfriend. How does that filter through your lens? Neither of us are “alpha male cavemen.” And the only way she could conceivably “cheat” on me is by having sex with someone and hiding it from me, which she has absolutely no reason to do, because I encourage her to do things that make her happy, and my sex drive is way lower than hers.
@dlouwe, congratulations on transcending your biology unlike pussy cravers such as ourselves!
Which is the one who eats seagulls (or fondly imagines he could)? They all kind of look alike – swamp-coloured.
What have I made today, let’s see …
a modicum of sense (combined with a soupçon of creativity)
a living
That’s why I think a state by state ban would drive the point home. “Oh, man, did you hear all this shit that happened in Arizona when the women went on strike? And they’re gonna strike in Oklahoma tomorrow!” Just one day, one state, for fifty days.
@Jack, that’s awesome. “Oh shit, Arizona’s on fire, guys, and they say it’s our turn next! Quick, guys, everyone buy flowers’n’shit for the ladies! Bitches like flowers, right? That’ll stop them from striking, right?”
One year later, Furiosa stalks the post-apocalyptic wasteland of MGTOWistan, hell-bent on making the MGTOW raiders pay for their savage attacks on the peaceful metropolis of Futureberg…
I always find it amusing when misogynists forget the usual narrative that feminists are fat, ugly or gay and can’t get a man and that’s why we’re feminists when it’s convenient. When they want to wank about alpha Chads, suddenly we’re all the pretty, popular cheerleaders who ignored them in high school and went out with the jocks instead. We’re feminists because it reinforces our Regina George-like desire to spit on men who belong to less fortunate Greek letter classifications.
If Miggs comes back, I hope he provides a detailed taxonomy of these classes so that I can know for sure which letter males I like and which ones I cruelly spit on.
@Scildfreja
Have you ever noticed that the men most intent in lecturing on how women are physically inferior are almost always men who aren’t themselves physically fit?
All of the fitness dudes I’ve met, though they believe there’s a certain plateau women can’t go past, will realize there’s much overlap in the strength curves and don’t prevent women from joining.
I have a question, what would be a sensitive way to contact the person this article is about? The subject would be mining copies of abusive communications for patterns useful in combating social abuse of women.
https://backchannel.com/one-womans-brilliant-fuck-you-to-wikipedia-trolls-aab4107d374b#.6wukrb7yp
Emily Temple-Wood is a legitimate cultural warrior. A 12 year old changed Wikipedia to fight misogynistic trolling. It’s an MRA nightmare scenerio. I like this person very much.
@Croosters, they’ll grasp at any straw that makes them think they’re superior. A cornerstone of toxic masculinity is the inability to admit any weakness or inferiority. Nevermind that they, personally, aren’t accomplished – they can leech off the accomplishments of others!
Fitness specifically is a bit of a loaded question, to my understanding. Apparently how we measure strength is very biased towards male physique. If we measure strength by a more general whole-body approach, men and women are equally strong.
The core of that is that men have more upper body strength due to having a larger upper body (shoulders, chest), whereas women have more lower body strength due to having a larger lower body (hips, thighs). Convenient how the dudes who set up strength measurement metrics decided to emphasize upper body strength, huh?
Science is full of holes. Any scientist will gladly admit this. Any non-scientist-pseudorationalist (like most MRAs) will deny this until they’re blue in the face.
If she’s on LinkedIn, maybe try that? I had someone randomly contact me with questions about my work on there and it didn’t creep me our like it would if they tracked down my email or something like that.
If she’s on twitter, as well, that’s a good way to get someone’s attention and ask them something like that.
Thanks. I had something a little different in mind and I think that did not come through in my comment, I was trying to be careful with wording. The subject matter is a little intimidating from a social sensitivity standpoint and my “alarms” are a little loud with this one. The only other time they have been that loud had do to with a question for a Lakota professor about one of his cultures holy people.
I guess an example of something I’m concerned about would be sounding too clinical or other ways of seeming creepy. I’ve decided to suspend ways of asking questions before.
@weirwoodtreehugger
Zara Larsson, noted feminist pop sensation, talked about how misogynists often hold two assumptions of women being super-promiscuous hotties or fat ugly shrews at the same time and can’t pick which one is true.