One thing you can say about manosphere meme-makers: despite years of practice, they never seem to get any better at it. Consider the following memes I collected today from an assortment of places from Pinterest to Twitter.
The graphic design is often a little on the crude side. And the content is if anything even less sophisticated than the design.
Next, WALLS-O-TEXT. Manospherists often forget that the whole point of a meme is to grab the viewer’s attention quickly, not to wear wear us down with excessive verbiage in tiny type.
Sometimes these meme-writers forget to include any graphic content at all.
That’s no meme, son; that’s just a couple of paragraphs of blurry type.
But you don’t need a lot of tiny words to render your memes unreadable — just some basic design ineptitude.
But I have to say that my favorite manosphere memes are the ones that feature me.
I wish I still had that hoodie. I wore it until it just plain wore out.
H/T — @TakedownMRAs on Twitter, who inspired this post and alerted me to the meme artistry of The Awaken MAN; I found most of these examples on his Twitter feed.
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You’ve still got the beanie, though, right?
I hope you at least held on to that stylin’ plaid bow tie.
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Oh, there are so many hoodies I wish I still had. But I found one of my favorites today while moving stuff out of my parents’ house, so that was nice.
Surviving an active shooting has fucked up my brain I think. Although could be that plus the combination of White Claws at this point.
They really can’t do anything right, can they?
No wonder women (and probably normal men) don’t want to have anything to do with them.
So that first wall-o-text says women shouldn’t be allowed to apply for alimony? Luckily that’s not anything these losers will ever have to pay. And since when is India super-feminist? This will be a great surprise to all the Indian women I know.
That beanie is actually popular among certain geek groups. Many of whom have all the sex they want, BTW. I’m sitting on a couch with one of them right now.
I like hoodies but I wish more of them had zippers because I get too hot sometimes.
Oh wow, the propeller hat to signify nerdy – that’s an historical reference. Even amongst people old enough to remember when nerdiness was considered unattractive.
Hello.
What are supposed to be those “498A CPRC 125 HMA 24” ? It appears two times, but i have no idea what it means, and they do not bother to explain it, so…
Have a nice day.
Google indicates it’s an Indian legal thing: “CrPC 125; Sec 24 of Hindu Marriage Act (HMA 24)”
(It appears MRA sites in India are the only ones that refer to it that way, at least as far as Google shows me. Seems to be related to alimony.)
@occasional reader:
What are supposed to be those “498A CPRC 125 HMA 24” ? It appears two times, but i have no idea what it means, and they do not bother to explain it, so…
To judge by a brief and not particularly fruitful Google Search, those seem to be stock forms/charges in Indian divorce cases:
https://indusladies.com/community/threads/how-do-parents-take-daughters-divorce-issue.21725/page-3
https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/forum/regarding-crpc-125-maintenance-58522.asp
I’ve always wanted one of those beanie hats.
OT, but why are those idiots still trying to get that Suez ship unjammed?
I ran the math. As of the new M/V Emma Mærsk container ships can carry up to 13,400 containers and the total value of cargo per vessel can reach $300 million, and these largest container ships themselves have a value of around $100 million. So, ship + cargo tops out at about $400 million.
Word on the street is that the Suez blockage is costing about $400 million per hour.
So, the smart thing to do would seem to have been to blow the damn thing up as soon as it became clear it would take more than an hour or so to dislodge it. It would actually cost less than trying to get it free. Of course, the debris would then have had to have been cleaned up but it’s clearly easier to move a lot of little things than one huge thing, and a lot faster since it’s parallelizable.
The compensation they’d have to pay to the ship’s owner and intended cargo recipients would be way less than what the blockage is costing at this point.
And of course they could still do it now. And they should, if it’s likely to take more than an additional hour to work it free otherwise. The sunk cost fallacy applies to sticking with their current, failing approach to the problem.
@Surplus to Requirements:
For the record, they’ve unstuck it and traffic is resuming.
@Surplus
You are dramatically underestimating the negative consequences of using explosives to address the Suez crisis. There are a myriad of reasons not to do so, starting with the damage to the canal itself.
I’ve talked with one of these guys once. He tried really hard to convince me that my mother was abusive for leaving her first husband and getting my brother away from the controlling abusive jerk that though my mom and brother were property.
he kept trying to tell me I know only my mothers side of the story.
i told him my brother was 12 when he decided he didn’t want to see his sperm donner anymore. and the reason was because he physically hit him and was emotionally abusive.
Surplus, you vastly underestimate the complexity of cleaning up aquatic pollution and how much work and time it takes to safely dismantle a large vessel. Scrapping (as opposed to scuttling) is a months-long process…
…which is why scuttling is still a thing, to be honest. People going “we want to scuttle and make diving reefs” are usually not motivated by the desire to help save reef ecosystems, but more the cost savings of not having to scrap.
Like, it’s a good thought! But, digging out and refloating (with the help of extra high tide!) the ship intact probably was the best strategy, and they probably had lots of folks trying to figure out best practices.
Guess this is on topic now!
Ah, yes. Alimony. Famously invented by feminists so that housewives could stay at home and not have their own income but still get by in the event of a divorce.
@ contrapangloss
I had always thought seacocks were weird thing to build into a ship. It was like an aeroplane having a ‘detach wings’ button. But I guess that makes sense.
As to blowing up a ship, HMS Hood famously sank when her aft magazines exploded.There’s still debate as to exactly how powerful a blast that was; but as this was the Royal Navy’s most powerful warship, one can imagine it was pretty spectacular.
She’s still in, almost, one piece though (Three big pieces really, but still pretty much together)
http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/00/30/98/50_big.jpg
More detail and pics here…
http://www.hmshood.com/hoodtoday/2001expedition/hood/encrypt.htm
So to get the Ever Given into manageable pieces you’d probably be talking small nuke; seriously; and they already complain erosion damages the canal.
I’ll take “Advice Anthony Eden should have listened to” for $500 please Dali.
Alan,
No kidding! I remember in high school being horrified hearing stories about people selling old ships for literal pennies.
…and now that I know how hard shipbreaking actually is to get a payday of maybe $0.60 per pound of final recycled high strength steel (of which maybe 50% of the vessel weight might be recyclable), I kind of get it. That’s not even really accounting for dockage and transport and renting a floating dry dock (or rent drydock space at a shipyard with a big enough dock) if you don’t have a convenient beach to purposefully run aground on to give yourself a place to work during dismantlement.
And purposefully running aground is a bit tricky because permitting + getting far enough aground that the mobile cranes have adequate support and reach to work and making sure nothing environmentally hazardous is released when you wreck your new old ship on purpose. Just, ack! Egads! Gadzooks!
Those big ships are built to be sturdy as heck, and I’m fascinated.
@ GSS ex-noob there’s a pretty loud MRA scene in India. Although this is the first time I’ve seen MGTOW material by Indians. I gotta say I find them extremely scary. India’s society has gone through huge changes in a short span of time but the situation for women is still nowhere near anywhere “equal” to men. The violence these people glorify isn’t something that you can write off as the ramblings of some self-pitying keyboard warrior. It’s something that women experience daily in it’s most horrfiying forms in India.
One of the laws cited in the memes ist part of the dowry inhibition act. When I searched a little rn I only found entries about how the laws is supposedly used against men etc. Now I’ve not searched for an article, but as far as I know actually sueing a husband and his relatives for abuse and mistreatment is pretty hard…
@Alan
Thing is that there’s a number of ways that water might get into a ship (mostly rain and high seas), and you want to have a way to get it back out with a minimum of pumping, i.e. via hatches as near to the waterline as possible. It’s not as much of an issue with these enormous modern ships with their engine-powered pumps and the like, but these days some of the engines want coolant and it’s easiest to get that via holes as near the waterline as feasible.
@ contrapangloss
I had a case that involved valuing a fishing fleet. The trawlers were assessed as being worth minus £8,000 each. That’s how much they would cost to scrap (The real values is in the fishing quotas attached to them; which you can trade.)
Oh indeed. I saw a documentary about that aircraft carrier they sank to create a reef. It took the team months to prep her. Not just removing all the hazardous material; but they also had to cut through every watertight bulkhead. Then they used explosives. And she still took over half an hour to sink.
@ dali
That makes sense I guess. Although I’m still not sure why the Nostromo needed a scuttling mechanism.
As you know I’m a bit of a Titanic nerd. There’s some interesting stuff there with the pumps. Had it not been for the two foot tear extending into boiler room 5, the engineering consensus is the pumps could have kept her afloat indefinitely.
@Alan
In case a hazardous alien life form contaminated the vessel, obviously. Probably the designers would’ve been thinking “Andromeda Strain” rather that “giant terrifying predator”, but the point remains.