By David Futrelle
As you may have noticed, Men’s Rights Activists aren’t really very, well, activist. Sure, they talk a lot online, but when it comes to organizing anything in the real world, they fail utterly. Indeed, the only real Men’s Rights protest I’ve seen in all my years running this blog drew fewer people than a ten percent off sale at the dollar store.
Not one to let a legacy of failure dissuade him from trying, one Men’s Rights Redditor called anonymousnerfer is organizing his own rally. And he’s not aiming low:
The Women’s March was one of the most successful protests of all time, drawing more than four million to rallies in Washington DC and across the country. But it was organized by, you know, women. Imagine how much more successful a MEN’S March, organized by MEN, could be.
Admittedly, we have few details on this new planned march. In his post, which consisted of nothing beyond its title, anonymousnerfer failed to specify a date or a location — not even what country it would be in.
But these things can be worked out in time, as male organiz …
Wait, I’m hearing that there is a problem with the march.
The march will just have to be cancelled, I guess. Erodedragon18 has a meeting at work — and apparently quite a long one, too, conflicting with any possible date and time a march could be held.
Best of luck next time, fellas!
Organizing is hard.
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Well, I think we can all agree that women are to blame for this failure…
And yet they still manage to build civilization. /s
I would attend a march for awareness about circumcision if it wasn’t billed as a mEn’S mArCh. Feminists care about this issue.
I just find it really funny that no date is specified but this guy already has a meeting that prevents him from being there. Does he just have an eternal meeting that never ends? And if so, how does his boss feel about him using Reddit during said eternal meeting?
The women’s march lately has its own problems since it was taken over by TERFs and racists. Though I have a hard time picturing a men’s march that isn’t full of extreme misogyny and racism from the get-go.
My guess is that Donald Trump would be very happy about a men’s march. And Tucker Carlson would enthusiastically ramble about how great it is.
There’s a little Jake Blues flavour to that excuse.
As for the march: dude, saying “I want a protest march, now tell me what it should be about” is kinda backwards.
@Moggie
Their chant could be:
What do we want? A march! What should it be about? You tell me! No, seriously, tell me.
@moggie
Yeah, why doesn’t he just say straight out that he wants to protest women? He’s not hiding anything.
That reminds me of a pro-Meninist march we had over here a couple of years ago, in response to the more massive women’s rally, which was attended by a grand total of less than 10 men:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPJW8aRbpuM
Don’t mind the other people in the park, they were not attending the march. They were visiting with their families.
Here’s a better angle:
https://peru21.pe/lima/marcha-convocada-redes-sociales-video-227402-noticia/
One of the paragraphs reads “Some men mocked women by telling them to get back to the kitchen”.
@ moggie
Yeah; not exactly Marlon Brando there.
This needs a protest song.
Come redpills and MGTOWs,
Please heed the call
“I can’t, there’s a meeting
From now until fall…”
I’m mad at the stuff
And we’ve all had enough
And it’s gone on way too long
But I can’t even bother to
Finish this song
For the times, they are
a-
….
….
…WOMEN ARE JUST THE WORST AMIRITE?
Diego, that photo is priceless!
ROFL this is too perfect.
MRAs: “We don’t need women’s labor! We’re real men, we’re strong, we can do anything! We run the world! OOH RAH let’s have a march!”
Also MRAs: *have to cancel their march because they suck at planning and logistics, which is yet another example of the uncredited work that women and AFAB people constantly do for them*
These men are their own parodies.
To be fair, planning a protest is hard, and really needs someone with experience, and the ability to think of all the things. They should hire a woman to do it for them.
“Wait, it’s Saint Crispin’s day? Sorry, Henry old chap, I’ve got a thing”
There’s plenty of excellent protest organizer of all genders (that I know exist in human, at least), and really, it require more practice than skill in my experience. The thing is, MTGOW are not only hateful wankers, they are *lazy* hateful wankers. Most can’t be arsed to even do minimal efforts for anything.
@David
Diego, that photo is priceless!
Maybe he uses “I have an important meeting and children” as his go-to excuse for anything he’s not keen on, and he failed to notice this particular event has yet to be scheduled.
@Moggie:
that Crispin’s Day bit was the best. I’ve actually been going on a bit about the Crispin’s Day speech to my BFF lately because she’s watching Game of Thrones and there’s always another motivating, pre-battle speech, and none of them (apparently) are all that inspiring. But she wasn’t aware of Hal’s speech getting called the St Crispin’s Day Speech, and she didn’t remember a whole lot of is content. So I had to give her a benchmark, and now she tells me about how the latest battle speech rates in milliCrispins.
@everyone:
You interpret it how you like, but I interpreted it as intentionally funny. Like the guy was making a joke.
I mean, even if the guy is a legit MRA and not a parody account or troll, it’s still possible that the person has noticed what we’ve noticed and is cynical about the possibility of men showing up. I mean, it’s even more likely that no one will show up for Mr. Rebel-literally-without-a-cause given the march has no, uh, cause.
I mean, I’ve made jokes on feminist threads about how if we’re going to come to consensus on something we’d better stock up the pantry with dry rice and beans so we don’t starve. I figure that it’s at least possible that someone active on those threads has a sense of humor. Possibly even someone not on there to parody the MRAs, who knows? Weirder things have happened.
@ crip dyke
One for you I think.
@Crip Dyke
Could be, but I feel like that gives far too much credit to MRAs, who have shown themselves time and time again to have zero self-awareness. If it is intentionally funny, it’s probably a troll.
ETA: Checked his user page. He’s really into the movie Saving Private Ryan and seems like a troll but I’m not sure.
I’d go to the men’s rights march, but I have a bunch of TPS reports due.
Oh, if we’re talking about variations on the St. Crispin’s Day speech….
http://youtu.be/oMAFme1hBH0
@Crip Dyke:
re: Game o’ Thrones… I saw a post on Farcebook about a “Game of Thrones sea cruise, and a lot of my Throney friends were wanting to go… I tried to warn them off because, sure as heck at the end of the cruise, a CGI dragon would set fire to the ship and burn it with everyone on board….
Well, since he seems to need an idea for his march, what if someone suggests that he should march carrying a red flag and talk about why workers should own the means of production and from each according to ability and to each according to need? It’s worth a shot.