By David Futrelle
Friday used to be meme-day here on We Hunted the Mammoth, so today I thought I’d revive the tradition with a few (relatively) fresh MGTOW memes I found on Facebook.
As you’ll notice, two of these memes are basically self-defeating, so poorly designed that they basically make the opposite of the point they’re intended to make. And the other two seem to come from a planet other than our own, in that they do not reflect anything close to reality on this planet.
The first self-defeating meme is the one above, featuring two non-MGTOW frogs enjoying a nice soak in a special frog hot tub. Given how cheerful they both look, it seems pretty clear the water is a long way from its boiling point, giving them plenty of time to jump to safety if the water gets too hot for their tastes. No boiled frogs here, just a couple of frog buddies letting their tension melt away.
This next meme offers a visual representation of the so-called “cock carousel” that all (Western) women supposedly ride in their twenties.
Ok, just a few questions: If the gal on the left is supposed to be the typical young women, and the guy on the right is supposed to be the typical guy, who exactly are all these guys the gal is, er, “riding?” Unless all the women in the world are fucking the exact same couple of dozen dudes, shouldn’t the sides balance out, with typical men having a roughly similar number of partners as typical women?
In real life, of course, they do. And the number, not surprisingly, is way way way lower than the number the MGTOWs have cooked up in their fevered dreams. According to the CDC, the median number of (opposite sex) partners that Americans between 25 and 44 had over their lifetimes (as of 2011-2015) was 6.1 for men and 4.2 for women. Other studies have found slightly higher numbers, though it’s hard to tell how reliable any of these numbers are. Why do men have higher numbers than women? Possibly because men tend to exaggerate their numbers and women to underestimate theirs.
Here’s another meme from yet another planet:
The notion that the government does the bidding of women because they’re a slight majority of the electorate comes staright from good old Warren Farrell, the intellectual godfather of the Men’s Rights Movement, someone who clearly has no idea how politics actually works — despite his PhD in political science. Our current president bragged about sexually assaulting women, joked about sexually assaulting Elizabeth Warren at his rally yesterday, and appoints white men to fill the vast majority of key jobs in his administration. Once he puts another white dude on the Supreme Court — the apparent front-runner for the pick is a white dude — the court is likely to overturn Roe Vs Wade or take other steps to effectively outlaw abortion in huge portions of the US. 65% of women oppose overturning Roe, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll,
But MGTOWs (and many MRAs) honestly think they live in some sort of “gynocracy.”
Let’s end with this cute little meme:
Obviously. the point of the meme is to suggest that marriage is a trap for men. But, er, it’s generally the man who offers the ring to the women, so doesn’t this meme imply that that it’s really the woman being trapped?
MGTOWs can’t do anything right, can they?
Monsters and Rainbows: The “horror woman” appears to be Bloody Mary from the Batwoman comics (not to be confused with several other characters named Bloody Mary that have shown up in comics, DC alone has at least three). You know the story, look in the mirror, say “Bloody Mary” three times and she slaughters your entire slumber party! I’ve never understood how these stories would be plausible. If you said it, you’d die, so who would spread the rumor?
The ruffle is probably just supposed to be old fashioned clothing.
Some of my male friends play Magic together and they all have wives and kids/kids on the way. They achieved it by not having terrible personalities.
Calmdown, isn’t it remarkable how many of life’s problems can be avoided or at least ameliorated by not having a terrible personality?
Moggie: that reminds me of the (in) famous photo of “boneless pork rectums (inverted)” so easily found online. My first thought was “well, of *course* they’re boneless”.
One of those meme pictures in that first one takes a subtle shot at Art/Humanities majors, and now I’m extra angry.
…As if the Arts are a frivolous and easy pursuit! Whoever made that meme could’ve used a design class or two!
Agreed. I guess I just imagined the lockers I was slammed into several times in 7th grade by a boy in my class and the name calling and the time a guy from my class in grade 8 heard his friend calling me names and came over to talk to me, loudly saying “Just ignore (bully’s name), he’s an asshole sometimes.” Weirdly, that bully never said another rude word to me. But I’m sure I just made it all up in my lady brain and they were actually throwing money at me.
But I thought the hot tubs were for turning the frogs gay.
@SFHC: That’s probably the idea. Feminists are turning the frickin’ frogs gay, and MGTOWs are the sole representatives of TRUE MANHOOD left in the world!!
Simps?
Those guys from Judge Dredd who dress and behave in the most ridiculous way possible to escape the ennui and nihilism of Mega City 1?
@calmdown
Forcing men not to have terrible personalities is misandry.
*lol*
I worked as a crab-cracker on Fisherman’s Wharf in SF as my first job out of high school, and cooking the crabs was a big part of that job. While I can’t speak to the suffering or the improved flavor (or really about any species of crab other than Dungeness), I can say unequivocally that they don’t tear at themselves; they essentially seize up in about 2 or 3 seconds and don’t move at all after that.
Seconding what several commenters said about girls getting bullied. My mother wanted to know why I had footprints on the lining of my winter coat. You guessed it – bullies put them there.
Off topic but
The fred phelps phuckheads were in austin today. They were less than ten POS spewing the same old shit. I counted around TWENTY FIVE COPS protecting their nasty asses. Those seven assholes got a lane of traffic blocked off by the cops, 25 bike cops, and a cop escort to their vans. It was actually a pretty pathetic display because its Sunday and there’s not a lot of foot or vehicular traffic to notice them at this hour downtown.
This was my first time actually seeing them IRL. They are so. fucking. thiiiirsty. I yelled “fred phelps is dead,” and “are you protesting on the sabbath!?” Weak sauce on my end but I just woke up from a Benadryl stupor. (Fuuuuuck mold right now. )
Four thai soccer players were rescued today from their subterranean prison.
@cornychips
All that protection for free, of course. They’re a church and tax exempt so everyone else has to pay to keep their sorry asses safe.
Funny how conservatives never lump priests and pastors in with the those they consider “takers”….
Ah, that’s her! Thanks!
And uggggh, now I’ve accidentally fallen down an internet hole of reading about how Batwoman’s queer wedding storyline was cancelled in favour of a story about her getting mindcontrolled and sexually abused by a hot vampire, because DC Comics has an official editorial position that we Can’t Have Nice Things.
https://www.themarysue.com/dc-comics-batwoman-rape/
If anyone has any lingering doubts that the Trump administration is anything other than just pure fucking evil:
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.
The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the United States.
Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution, but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation, according to officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.
@ lindsayirene
I hope comparing children’s health to football isn’t trivialising the issue; but it’s another example of Trump just bullying the world into towing the line. In fact, maybe it’s a good example of how dangerously petty he is. He’s threatening countries over a bleeding football tournament.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-worldcup-trump/fifa-points-to-ethics-rules-after-trump-tweets-threat-to-world-cup-bid-opponents-idUKKBN1HY03Y
Annoyingly it seemed to work; but FIFA is an organisation that can challenge the Trump hegemony in terms of corruption.
Alan: Just a nitpick to make clear how stupid the footballsituation really is. It is unclear, if Trump threatening had that much efect.
The Mexiko/Canada/US-bind was the better one, wouldn’t need that much money to build, because the infrastructure allready existed.
So without Trump doing anything we would have had the same result, very likly.
But treads seem to be Trumps diplomacy and I hope the big bully lands sometime very hard.
WTH has to be wrong with a person to make them okay with *boiling frogs*. That’s not the way anyone should be treating animals – not even frogs. I don’t even care if it’s only a theoretical action used to illustrate some ridiculous non point, can’t they come up with a less cruel to living and breathing creatures?!
It’s funny, these guys and TRP think that women are all used up whores after 30, but incels think that women have lifelong sexual prospects regardless of age or weight. Will they ever reach a consensus?
Also, the average marriage age is approximately 30 or above in many countries in Europe and Asia, and many older people get married for companionship long after their Child-bearing years.
Are these people anomalies to this group, or maybe proof their black and white worldview is skewed?
I mean you’re basically describing the idea of “Chad” here, so I can’t say I’m completely shocked. Disappointed, yes, but not shocked.