By David Futrelle
Sometimes people new to Men’s Rights activism — and who haven’t yet realized that they’ve joined a hate group rather than a real civil rights movement — ask why feminists don’t work together with MRAs to make the world a big happy place for everyone.
Perhaps because MRAs go around saying shit like this all the time?
I found this in a discussion in the Men’s Rights subreddit over that pressing problem of our age: Women having too much self-esteem.
NOTE: In case there are any stray MRAs reading this post and feeling sorry for that poor fellow in the picture I used above, don’t worry! The lady in question had a very good reason for throwing him down a well. And then dropping rocks on him.
The picture is a cropped version of Elisabetta Sirani’s 1659 painting Timoclea Killing Her Rapist. As Ariela Gittlen points out on Artsy.net, the painting is based on a story in Plutarch in which a captain in Alexander the Great’s army rapes Timoclea during the invasion of Thebes. “Following the assault,” Gittlen notes,
the captain asks where her money is hidden. Timoclea leads him to her garden well; as he peers into it, she pushes him in, dropping heavy rocks down the well until he dies.
I’m not generally a fan of capital punishment, but in this particular instance I have to say I don’t really have much of a problem with Timoclea’s approach.
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So, you’re in favour of poisoning the well?
I’ll just link to the Rejected Princesses page on Timoclea.
But seriously though, I highly doubt this idiot has had any exposure to feminism except crappy Hollywood movies written by out of touch old men and strawman memes.
What does “cunt” mean?
I turned to Merriam-Webster.com for help:
cunt noun
\ ˈkənt
\
Definition of cunt
1 obscene : the female genital organs also : sexual intercourse with a woman
2 usually disparaging and obscene : woman sense 1a
woman noun
wom·an | \ ˈwu̇-mən
, especially Southern ˈwō-
or ˈwə-
\
plural women\ ˈwi-mən
\
Definition of woman
1a : an adult female person
So this redditor is insulting women for being women.
It wasn’t always considered a rude word. During the middle ages, it was, at most, mildly vulgar. Doctors routinely used it! Famously, there were numerous streets around England called “Gropecunt Lane”, or variants thereof: streets where sex workers plied their trade.
It wasn’t always considered a rude word. During the middle ages, it was, at most, mildly vulgar. Doctors routinely used it
oddly enough I have always preferred the word “cunt” to say the word pussy. Of course when talking about genitals, not calling people names. I just don’t use it often because of how it is seen now.
I hate the quote thing so much sometimes y’all.
Just spell it “queynte”. That’ll get a smile from anyone who knows their Chaucer.
Oh noes the females might get it in their heads that they deserve better than what mra’s got.
Capitol punishment is something the State does. It is not killing in self defense, or even retribution, so you’re fine.
Oh my god, I couldn’t tell that was a well at first glance – I thought she was in the process of ripping him in half from the crotch up by just wrenching his legs apart
…all with that unfazed, almost bored expression on her face, too
I wouldn’t feel bad being a queynte to this bozo, to be quite honest.
I must be out of the loop. I don’t know what that is.
After the murder of the officer, Timoclea was brought before Alexandre the Great who pardonned her and placed her, her house and her family under his aegis for the rest of the sack of Thebes.
I thought that was the only part of me they were interested in?
About the Timoclea picture, my first thought was that she was doing a terrible job of playing doctor.
Meh. Whenever an online dude calls me a cunt — which is generally at the end of a debate where they realize they don’t have sufficient evidence to uphold their claims beyond “I Am a Man and You Are a Mere Woman, Ergo I Am by Default Correct” — I just post this handy little image.
I don’t mind being called a cunt in the least, in fact I tell them it’s a compliment!
well… yes. you have in fact stumbled on what they do for fun.
@Moggie
It’s the correct English term for the organ in question; the vulgarity only arose when use of Anglo-Saxon roots instead of Norman or Latin became entirely associated with the lower classes.
@Lainy
Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, which uses spelling that’s very different to modern forms.
@CarrieV
No it isn’t. They’re completely separate roots.
But feminism teaches women to be more than just a cunt. Which, by the reductive logic of MRAs, is being a cunt.
But at least he satisfied himself that women always feel bad, however they’re behaving.
OT but Nigel Farage had to hide on his bus because people with milkshakes were nearby
The guardian article
@Buttercup Q.
Or at least he tried, this random guy on the Internet, to make women always feel bad about what we’re doing. He did his best. An individual can do no more.
@Lainy
I don’t really know why, but I’ve always defined “cunt” as “vagina” and “pussy” as “vulva.”
Of course, as we know, these guys don’t know the difference anyway.
@ Lainy, Dalillama
Not just the spelling, the Middle English that Chaucer wrote in is hard to follow without prior study.
@Pagan Reader:
I’d like to see people turn up at his events carrying empty McDonald’s cups. Keep him guessing. Hard to see what the police could do about that.