By David Futrelle
Hold onto your hats! A Redditor has finally come up with an answer to the centuries-old question “what do feminists want?” Weirdly, he arrived at this answer while sitting on the toilet and (apparently) thinking about boots.
“Gentlemen, I had an epiphany on the crapper about feminism,” a Redditor called bangramanga wrote in the Men’s Rights subreddit today.
He began by repeating one of the favorite MRA fairy tales about feminism — that once upon a time it was good and pure and then mean ladies came along and ruined it.
Where did feminism start? Pursuing equal rights, equal job opportunities, equal pay, the right to vote. This was a very fair campaign that even men supported. They came out victorious. They have equal rights, equal job opportunities, equal pay, the right to vote, etc etc etc.
Wow. I mean, I had heard about the vote thing, but I was unaware that feminists had won all of their other legitimate demands and that they really had no more reason to even exist!
Today there is nothing a man can do in society that a woman can’t. In fact, most everything is in women’s favor today. They got the last say. But they’re clearly not satisfied with having the last say.
Those gals, always complaining, even when there’s nothing to complain about.
So what do you do when you need to fight a cause, but there’s no enemy to fight? You start inventing new enemies.
Enter #metoo, #menaretrash and all the other childish crap we see today.
How dare these childish women speak out against … rapists?
When you have attained all the rights you were fighting for, but still want to fight, all that’s left fighting for then is to take rights away from others. This is what feminism became today.
Damn these women, taking away the rights of … rapists? Like the right not to be in prison even though you raped someone. I think that’s in the Bill of Rights somewhere.
Oh, but wait, there are men pushing feminism too?
And there’s men fighting along side them – their male supporters is a huge problem. White knighting beta-male orbiters licking those boots just in case they get to smash that poon as a reward.
Licking boots, you say?
[Y]ou can see that while they’re all up in arms screeching autistic noises about wanting equal rights, which they already have, it’s clear that their definition of equal rights is something else. I’ve started paying attention to what they’ve been bitching and moaning about, and … I believe I’ve figured out what they actually want.
You might want to copy this down.
Picture a woman walking three dogs on a leash.
Wait, what?
Now replace the three dogs with three crawling men.
Feminists want … three crawling men on leashes? Does each feminist get their own three men, or do they have to share?
What I’m trying to say here is they want 100% submission and 100% obedience from 100% of men. That’s it. Feminists will not stop their shit until they have every male on earth licking women’s boots on demand …
Boots again. It’s almost like someone has a bit of a fixation.
… and they will not stop until they have it where a man can’t even draw a breath without a woman’s permission and approval.
Pardon me from questioning this BONA FIDE FEMMMMENIST LOGIC but that doesn’t seem very practical. Imagine the paperwork! And it seems like it would be a giant time-suck for the women too.
[T]he less feminists have to complain about, the angrier they get.
Naturally. none of bangraanga’s colleagues in the Men’s Rights subreddit thought his toilet thoughts were a huge load of crap.
“These days, feminism is the expression of mental ill-health because of resentment, anger and jealousy.,” wrote one.
At the same time many women, including feminists, really want men to show some backbone and stop putting up with all this crap.
Apparently women secretly love it when you go on about how Bill Cosby’s accusers probably wanted the drugs he put in their drinks.
They try to walk on men, but despise the men who allow it to happen.
Nah. That’s not feminists. That’s my cat Sweetie Pie Jonas, photographed here while she was sitting on my chest.
Another commenter thought the real problem wasn’t so much feminism but women and their irrational minds.
I believe women’s capacity to continue arguing long past the “rational” conclusion has more to do with the way they think rather than from feminism.
As long as they are experiencing the emotion that drove them to the argument, they are going to argue. No amount of logic is going to make that emotion go away.
If you intend to try to resolve the “argument” do something to make the emotion change.
I’m not altogether clear what this last guy is saying, but I think he agrees with the OP.
Those beta men who demanded equal right for unequal animal, viz woman are so stupid that they forget all these woman-talk are addresses to two years kids. After all, till a half century’s ago their evolutionary traits were so. Do beta men believe that evolution can speeded up in 50 years so there motherly controling tactics can be considered facts?
I’m not even going to try to parse that. Life is short and I have boots to lick.
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I, for one, welcome our new Feminist overlords.
Where do i get my leashes, boots, and 3 men??
Hey there, don’t mind me, just a Viz Woman looking for a leashed up bootlicking man to give me the address to two years kids.
It appears that yet again MRAs have confused feminism with femdom, as I don’t think Gloria Steinem ever wanted men on leashes.
Also, WTF is #menaretrash? I know what #metoo is, but is #menaretrash a real hashtag?
The idea of men on leashes reminds me of the (Slightly NSFW) video for “Mein Teil” by Rammstein.
Yes clearly we are the stupid ones. Only a true intellect could come up with so elegant a closing statement. /Sarcasm
Personally I’ll stick with just the one man thank you. Might be willing to take in a third cat though.
Now I’m going to have the Stooges “I wanna be your dog” in my head for days.
That last paragraph is clearly the result of a superior alpha male mind so of course it makes no sense to those of us who aren’t alpha males. It’s like trying to explain mathematical equations to a duck!
I have had a few of these brainiacs back down when I tell them I’ve been a feminist since before their parents met. “Oh, well, then. You’re one of the rare real feminists! Not like these younger females!”
Yeah, because younger women gain feminist knowledge by plucking it out of thin air, like soap bubbles, and have never talked to the older feminists.
I think when I tell them I’m nearing 60 they think of their grammas and get panicky.
did you just dis Colin Furze, mad genius, by using one of his creations to illustrate these idiots?
… and they will not stop until they have it where a man can’t even draw a breath without a woman’s permission and approval.
…sounding better and better the more these waffle irons keep talking.
Well, it is how many MRA get their info. Looking at you, Karen”I know voting patterns from before there were polls” Straughan.
@Naglfar:
Well, “Mein Tail” has 5 men, and the woman is Christoph Schneider in drag, if we’re going to pick nits.
It’s certainly more entertaining than this fellow, at any rate.
A woman walking 3 crawling men on leashes? There are guys who’d pay good money for the privilege of being one of those men.
@MJ
I thought they only like presuffrage feminists (and even then not always), so wouldn’t they only like feminists over 120?
@Dormousing_it
On some level I wonder if MRAs have some fetishes that they don’t know how to deal with, so they make up all this projection to cover for it. That would explain a lot.
I have to ask, as someone well past several walls in age, will the boots be comfy?
I don’t even want a dog, and those are creatures well known for their loyalty and unconditional love. I sure as hell don’t want to have to deal with caring for and walking three men. Someone else can have my feminist-issued quota of leashed men. Is there a shelter I can deposit them at?
My mother, some years ago, read an article about older women doing dominatrix work. She was somewhat disturbed by it, and told me “I can barely handle taking care of one husband and our pets, I’m also supposed to have sex slaves?”
Even men supported it, so the campaigning was easy and everything was won within one electoral cycle. Two, tops.
Venn diagram of these guys and guys who think racism is over?
I subscribe to the magazine of the local feminist union, where actual membership is currently reserved for women (though this is hotly debated among said members).
I believe what I’m doing is termed malesub.
M. Futrelle, you say you cannot parse this– or at least indicate you do not wish to attempt to.
Good call. It is, in fact, unparsable. This is a common occurrence when someone tries to translate Old High Martian into English.
Of course, another issue with the three men per woman thing is that there aren’t three times as many men in the world as women (The actual ratio seems to be about 1.07:1). So either all women will have far fewer men (maybe 1 or 2 max) or most women will have no men.
What will become of non-binary people? Will they be leash holders or leashed? Or will they just be outside the system altogether?
Also, at what age will women receive their leashed men, and at what age will men be leashed?
Clearly this requires more thought /s.
Side note: Is there a way to make GIFs on this site stop auto-playing, or at least to stop them once they’ve started playing? I usually read the blog from my tablet, which is a bit old, so I find that GIF-heavy pages (not this post specifically, but some others with a lot of reaction GIFs) can be a bit hard on my browser here. And besides, they can be very distracting, so I always need to find a way to scroll so that they’re offscreen.
I like how on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Buzzfeed and others you can just click the GIF to stop it moving. That doesn’t work here. Do any of you have a solution?
Thanks!
@Penny Psmith
What browser do you use on your tablet? In many browsers there is an option to disable animated GIFs, but also this often disables other features.
Oh, and as for the unparseable comment – actually trying to parse it seems indeed impossible, but the gist of it seems basically like a “women are sub-human, did you really think that giving them the vote would suddenly make them human?” argument. So, on top of the bad grammar and phrasing and such, I’m counting a combination of bad biology, bad sociology, possibly bad psychology as well, and of course bad history and bad math (1920+50 =/= 2019). Bad everything, really.
@Naglfar: Chrome browser, not sure which version (as I said, the tablet is a bit old, and sometimes has a problem updating apps) but could check. Didn’t think of looking into browser settings for this, but I will. Thanks!
@Penny Psmith
If you can install browser extensions (not sure if you can on tablet), there is one called Animation Policy that allows you to disable GIFs.
@Podkayne Lives:
Well, she could order the sex slaves to do some of the household chores. That always seemed to me like it would be the best part of being a dom.