I suppose this makes a little bit of sense if you assume that every one of the literally hundreds of accusations against all of these men are false — and if you assume that the 15 men who have accused Kevin Spacey are really women. And that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh (is that Rush in the middle there with the red tie?) are feminists.
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By David Futrelle
Hey. I found some terrible MGTOW memes. So now you have to see them too.
So apparently women all want to date the Illuminati?
Yes, this is exactly how the world works, what astute social commentary
MGTOWS are basically the most boring sci-fi authors ever
We really need to force STEM majors to take more English classes
“MGTOW NOW!!!” Is something I could get behind, assuming it means Men Going Their Own Way Now. I mean, finally, right? But in the context of that image macro I have no idea what it means.
Am I, as a “female” supposed to look at that Blue Pillology graphic and be filled with regret that I’m being admired by L.L Cool J. instead of an MRA and an MGTOW? Because it’s a little blurry, but I’m pretty that picture representing a “simp” is L.L. Cool J.
Every time I think they can’t get any more ridiculous – they prove me wrong. It’s impressive, in the same way a person driving a nail with their head is impressive.
Victorious Parasol
6 years ago
My eyes are watering.
PeeVee the Tired
6 years ago
Red tie guy looks like Roy Moore.
Mexican Hot Chocolate
6 years ago
What? These are so confusing and detached from reality. I literally can’t even…
We really need to force STEM majors to take more English classes
No.
No we don’t.
Signed: English teacher who teaches technical writing course (in English department) required for computer science majors (also pre-vet majors, and environmental sciences majors).
It wouldn’t help.
Trust me.
Hippodameia
6 years ago
Ithiliana!! Wonderful to see you!!!!
Let’s sic some of my mother’s parochial schoolteachers from the late fifties on the STEM majors.
calmdown
6 years ago
Yep, when I think MGTOW I always think of Frodo Baggins.
Bina
6 years ago
Migtoes can’t meme. And they can’t even GTOW, either. I’m still waiting for them to buy that desert island and migrate thither. When, O Lord, WHEN?
idli sambar revolution
6 years ago
So the All Seeing Eye/Illuminati/Insert Whatever Conspiracy Theory that Controls the World is the “alpha” that women aupposedly adore, now?
Knitting Cat Lady
6 years ago
Huh?
Those memes make no sense at all.
Also, AC4 was a meh game.
brian
6 years ago
I “like” the little “SHARE to at least 5 Men.” [sic] in the Blue Pillology one. I’m just disappointed it didn’t follow that with some nebulous, unlikely threat like classic chain emails of yesteryear.
Allison
6 years ago
Them dumbass betas wouldn’t know a real alpha anyway.
None of those men supported actual feminism, just the 3rd Wave Fakery of Maxim’s “How to cure a feminist”.
All they did was rename everything misogynist as feminist.
Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile
6 years ago
You smartypants feminists are so busy snarking about these MGTOWs — yes, I’ll admit they’re artistically challenged — that you didn’t notice that one of them has drawn an astute conclusion:
The Lesson is, Avoid All Women!!
Yes!
Future lessons: avoid obsessing about women, avoid making memes about women, avoid threatening women online, avoid stalking women offline, avoid doxxing women.
Those are good for a start.
JessicaRed
6 years ago
I thought that was Fred Thompson.
Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile
6 years ago
And now I can’t get the jingle from the Alpha Beta grocery stores (defunct since the 1990s) out of my mind:
Be a friend,
Tell a friend,
Al-pha Be-ta!
Alan Hamel was their spokescreature the entire time I lived in Los Angeles. I knew he must be a Big Deal of some sort because he always announced his name. Later I found out that he was a Canadian entertainer and also Suzanne Somers’ (Three’s Company) husband.
Moggie
6 years ago
So now alphas, betas etc are being further stratified? These guys seem to have a compulsion to force other people into ever smaller boxes.
Moggie
6 years ago
calmdown:
Yep, when I think MGTOW I always think of Frodo Baggins.
And… is that Nikola Tesla? If you go your own way, you’ll be able to climb mountains, hang out with elves, and fail to develop wireless power transmission.
Jessica, I thought it looked like Fred Thompson too — and maybe it is him — but that wouldn’t make sense because a) he’s been dead for several years and b) I don’t think he was ever accused of sexual harassment? Not that I should expect MGTOWs to make sense. Then again come to think of it I don;t think Rush has been accused either, though he’s certainly said terrible things on the subject.
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
6 years ago
I got negged by Wells Fargo the other day.
(It just occurred to me, they’ve probably seen Alfa Bank mentioned in conjunction with Trump/Russia, and took its name literally…)
Ooglyboggles
6 years ago
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
That sucks. Sorry to hear that.
Jaygee
6 years ago
I know it’s futile to properly get into their mindset, but it’s kinda amusing to try.
So from the first two memes I gather that women want to date banks, governments (lower alpha), and (what I assumed was represented by the illuminati eye pyramid) money (upper alpha). But what does that actually look like on the dating scene? Women dating bankers and government employees? Women dating a wad of cash? Women dating men with cash (but wasn’t their base assumption that women are gold diggers anyway?)? And how can banks and government be types of men in their hierarchy? Those are entities made up of people and buildings.
I’m especially confused with the last meme. At first I thought it was addressed to women (“haha you women are falling for a trap”), but then it seemed to be aimed at men with its message of “MGTOW now.” And why is the woman crawling into the storm drain? This would make more sense without the “MGTOW now” message. Is it saying women are so terrible that a murderous clown should run scared? I’m left with no idea of what to make of it.
The pyramid in the Men Hierarchy seems inspired by old-timey socialist posters where there’s a pyramid to represent the hierarchy in society. Like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System But yeah, it makes zero sense to put in institutions rather than persons at the top if you wanna make a pyramid about different types of men that women wanna date.
Also, they clearly don’t get how the Pennywise meme is supposed to work. There are a million versions of that meme. It’s supposed to go like this: Pennywise in the first pic says he’s got something in the drain which you’re really desperate about having, and then the woman squeezing herself into the storm drain represents YOU and your desperation. I posted a Pennywise meme on Facebook myself a while ago, with Pennywise saying “I’ve got a tenured job down here”. That’s how the joke is supposed to work.
“MGTOW NOW!!!” Is something I could get behind, assuming it means Men Going Their Own Way Now. I mean, finally, right? But in the context of that image macro I have no idea what it means.
Am I, as a “female” supposed to look at that Blue Pillology graphic and be filled with regret that I’m being admired by L.L Cool J. instead of an MRA and an MGTOW? Because it’s a little blurry, but I’m pretty that picture representing a “simp” is L.L. Cool J.
Checkmate, females?
Every time I think they can’t get any more ridiculous – they prove me wrong. It’s impressive, in the same way a person driving a nail with their head is impressive.
My eyes are watering.
Red tie guy looks like Roy Moore.
What? These are so confusing and detached from reality. I literally can’t even…
“MGTOW”…
You keep using that acronym…
I don’t think it means what you think it means….
No.
No we don’t.
Signed: English teacher who teaches technical writing course (in English department) required for computer science majors (also pre-vet majors, and environmental sciences majors).
It wouldn’t help.
Trust me.
Ithiliana!! Wonderful to see you!!!!
Let’s sic some of my mother’s parochial schoolteachers from the late fifties on the STEM majors.
Yep, when I think MGTOW I always think of Frodo Baggins.
Migtoes can’t meme. And they can’t even GTOW, either. I’m still waiting for them to buy that desert island and migrate thither. When, O Lord, WHEN?
So the All Seeing Eye/Illuminati/Insert Whatever Conspiracy Theory that Controls the World is the “alpha” that women aupposedly adore, now?
Huh?
Those memes make no sense at all.
Also, AC4 was a meh game.
I “like” the little “SHARE to at least 5 Men.” [sic] in the Blue Pillology one. I’m just disappointed it didn’t follow that with some nebulous, unlikely threat like classic chain emails of yesteryear.
Them dumbass betas wouldn’t know a real alpha anyway.
None of those men supported actual feminism, just the 3rd Wave Fakery of Maxim’s “How to cure a feminist”.
All they did was rename everything misogynist as feminist.
You smartypants feminists are so busy snarking about these MGTOWs — yes, I’ll admit they’re artistically challenged — that you didn’t notice that one of them has drawn an astute conclusion:
Yes!
Future lessons: avoid obsessing about women, avoid making memes about women, avoid threatening women online, avoid stalking women offline, avoid doxxing women.
Those are good for a start.
I thought that was Fred Thompson.
And now I can’t get the jingle from the Alpha Beta grocery stores (defunct since the 1990s) out of my mind:
Be a friend,
Tell a friend,
Al-pha Be-ta!
Alan Hamel was their spokescreature the entire time I lived in Los Angeles. I knew he must be a Big Deal of some sort because he always announced his name. Later I found out that he was a Canadian entertainer and also Suzanne Somers’ (Three’s Company) husband.
So now alphas, betas etc are being further stratified? These guys seem to have a compulsion to force other people into ever smaller boxes.
calmdown:
And… is that Nikola Tesla? If you go your own way, you’ll be able to climb mountains, hang out with elves, and fail to develop wireless power transmission.
Jessica, I thought it looked like Fred Thompson too — and maybe it is him — but that wouldn’t make sense because a) he’s been dead for several years and b) I don’t think he was ever accused of sexual harassment? Not that I should expect MGTOWs to make sense. Then again come to think of it I don;t think Rush has been accused either, though he’s certainly said terrible things on the subject.
I got negged by Wells Fargo the other day.
(It just occurred to me, they’ve probably seen Alfa Bank mentioned in conjunction with Trump/Russia, and took its name literally…)
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
That sucks. Sorry to hear that.
I know it’s futile to properly get into their mindset, but it’s kinda amusing to try.
So from the first two memes I gather that women want to date banks, governments (lower alpha), and (what I assumed was represented by the illuminati eye pyramid) money (upper alpha). But what does that actually look like on the dating scene? Women dating bankers and government employees? Women dating a wad of cash? Women dating men with cash (but wasn’t their base assumption that women are gold diggers anyway?)? And how can banks and government be types of men in their hierarchy? Those are entities made up of people and buildings.
I’m especially confused with the last meme. At first I thought it was addressed to women (“haha you women are falling for a trap”), but then it seemed to be aimed at men with its message of “MGTOW now.” And why is the woman crawling into the storm drain? This would make more sense without the “MGTOW now” message. Is it saying women are so terrible that a murderous clown should run scared? I’m left with no idea of what to make of it.
The pyramid in the Men Hierarchy seems inspired by old-timey socialist posters where there’s a pyramid to represent the hierarchy in society. Like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System But yeah, it makes zero sense to put in institutions rather than persons at the top if you wanna make a pyramid about different types of men that women wanna date.
Also, they clearly don’t get how the Pennywise meme is supposed to work. There are a million versions of that meme. It’s supposed to go like this: Pennywise in the first pic says he’s got something in the drain which you’re really desperate about having, and then the woman squeezing herself into the storm drain represents YOU and your desperation. I posted a Pennywise meme on Facebook myself a while ago, with Pennywise saying “I’ve got a tenured job down here”. That’s how the joke is supposed to work.