This is what's wrong with the world. Webcomic author Tarol Hunt points out someone is being misandrist, internalizes his misandry so hard he thinks he's the one being a dick.

nplant · 2012-12-07T15:45:51+00:00

There is so much wrong with that article... Christ.

And what did I do? I flanked her like an ass-hat! With the misogynists on Lightsaber’s right, I took her left, choosing THAT moment to fight for men everywhere.

I agree to a certain extent. It's often annoying when some pedantic dipshit who wasn't part of the original argument finds a minor flaw in your post.

However, in this case, we have to start being more pedantic. It's not ok to use your own suffering as an excuse to bash other people. That's not a minor flaw, it's wanting to be an asshole and finding an excuse for it.

Yeah, I get it, they feel bad, and we're making it worse instead of helping them, but we can't just stand there and let them bash us as a group either. It doesn't lead to anything good, and why should we be expected to help someone who's being mean to us anyway?

And this:

I looked around at all the greasy guys yelping “Tits or GTFO” and “I would so do you” like misogynistic hiccups. I had somehow ended up fighting on the wrong side.

I was “loled” at and called an idiot, an asshole, a stupid turd… (oh damn, what was that one) a turd…head? Turd…boner? (Gah, now it’s going to bug me. I liked that one). Anyways, they took turns calling me names and telling me how sexism against men doesn’t exist.

Looks like there are trolls and assholes on both sides, then. But we're only going to generalize the male trolls, because it's worse for women. Somehow.

And we'll ignore that "her" side was trying to shout him into submission while "his" side was only giving her unwanted compliments. Because being told "I would so do you" is obviously infinitely worse than being called a "stupid turd" by people who "would hate me, if I wasn’t too worthless to hate". Because that kind of treatment isn't scary and hurtful, but he's so fortunate that at least no one wants to do him.

Why doesn’t someone do something about that poor sexism cut? It’s even bleeding a little! Poor me! Well if you look to your right, you’ll see a lady with HER sexism wound. Well… wounds, really. Her arms and legs have been ripped off and her eyes gouged out. Her spine is broken in many places and there is a shocking collection of swords, spears and farm tools sticking out of her belly.

Could he possible grovel more? Even if we turn this into a competition, it's more like we have cuts on our fingers and women have cuts on their cheeks, with both sides being pretty much ok.

I’ll never have to deal with the ongoing, daily bullshit that women have to.

Both men and women are generally fine. Shit happens, and that's why we're here, but blowing things out of proportion like this is just another tactic to shame men into devoting more and more resources to women's issues without getting anything in return.

And that’s just the North America bullshit! There are places where women literally and openly BELONG to men and aren’t allowed to know how to read and have to wear fourteen blankets, two plastic R2D2 masks and a cigarette shop before they can step outside!

And this woman on twitter has more in common with those people than you do just because she has a vagina? Because she shares the same genitals, she's to be compensated for their misery?

I'd also want to know what these same feminists thought when George W. Bush declared war against those countries and sent men there to die. Because he's sure as hell done more to help those women than they ever have, whatever his real motives were.

newSuperHuman · 2012-12-07T16:22:43+00:00

I think a big part of the problem is that there is no way to criticize misandry, because criticism of women's misandry IS misogyny, apparently.

quindraco · 2012-12-07T15:56:10+00:00

As a long standing Goblins reader, I can assure you that Tarol is kind of uniquely dumb. It's probably a mistake to extrapolate from him out to a problem in Canadian or World culture in general. When I first read his blog post (again, I'm an avid reader of the comic) I tracked down the woman's twitter feed via Tarol's feed and read the comments in question, and Tarol was clearly in the right - he's just too dumb to realise it.

TL;DR This is a problem with Tarol, not the world in general. Source: I read just about everything he puts on the internet.

Clauderoughly · 2012-12-07T16:07:31+00:00

Just another white knight on the internet.

Move along... nothing to see here

MechPlasma · 2012-12-07T19:31:50+00:00

Yeah, I read this article myself (Goblins comic is great), and I felt so compelled to email him and tell him why saying "issues against men are only like a papercut compared to issues against women" is, indeed, being a jerk. And why comparing issues that people face itself is something you should never do.

The comment he did make was still out of line though, according to the forum. Beyond just correcting her, I mean.

HapHapperblab · 2012-12-07T17:14:33+00:00

So... I've got a cut and that woman has been assaulted by a barn full of swordsmen therefore I should never ask a Dr to look at my cut?

Go fuck yourself, author of that diatribe.

buster2209 · 2012-12-07T17:45:15+00:00

Wow, feminine social ideals are so ingrained in this guy that he shamed himself into feeling like shit...

Is there sexism against men? Yes, but my tiny, little cuts can be taken care of with a band aid and a cookie.

He doesn't even need feminists to marginalise any problems he may have, he marginalised them himself. This is what happens when you have fully ingested the blue pill

Riesea · 2012-12-07T17:46:49+00:00

I thought he would have learned after that girl accused him of liking rape.

littleelf · 2012-12-07T16:48:36+00:00

A. She brought it on herself. If you post something sexual on Twitter and get upset about the reactions, then you're an idiot.

B. Anyone who generalizes about any group of people is an idiot and deserves to be shamed.

C. This guy is a total mangina and probably hasn't gotten laid since '87. He's so desperate for vagina that it's making me sick.

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