What About The Men: Chapter 1, Introduction and Principles -Feminist appropriation and colonization of the MRM at its finest.

cthulufunk · 2012-07-07T01:49:34+00:00

The Good Jim Crow Project strikes again. "Here's every single talking point you'll see in MR discussions...anyway, screw the MRM, only feminism can save men!"

Waaaaaah, can we be in your club, Ricky?!

I'm tired of this characterization of feminism that pretends like it's not reactionary or anti-male. Here's just page one of r/feminism:

"When men are serious, it’s sexy; it implies a commanding personality, someone who’s in control, someone with a backbone. When women are serious, they are bitches or unattractive, humourless hags, in need of sprucing up and 'feminising'"

"This is what online harassment looks like" (i.e. give Anita Sarkeesian more money so she doesn't have to get a real job)

"Why are feminist articles written by men given extra credibility? (First post) (self.Feminism)"

"Don't be a Dick Stump - how not to respond to sexual rejection"

"Sharing the Baby Burden: A Male Contraceptive Pill? How Will This Impact the Women's Movement and Reproductive Rights?" (i.e. Oh shit, men could have reproductive rights too?!)

"[TW: everything] MGTOW in their natural environment" (mocking a MGTOW site)

"Quit Pretending There Isn't A Videogame Rape Culture" (getya rape goggles on)

"He's a Stud, She's a Slut: The Sexual Double Standard" (not a double standard, they're different standards, but I digress)

"Sexist practices at Wal-Mart"

"Explain it to me like I'm three--The Male Gaze"

On and on..

2012-07-06T21:30:50+00:00

Those two arrogant rich kid gender hipsters will probably get a book deal too, if they haven't got one already.

Anyhow, you can see how its shaping up, reactionary and primarily about attacking a straw mens movement while promoting their political ideology and its theories.

This will get dissected and slaughtered in review, I can see a few whoppers of lies already in the first chapter there.

wnose · 2012-07-06T21:59:07+00:00

Guys attracted to the MRA movement are free thinkers - won't be sucked into these guys' con.

ThePigman · 2012-07-07T01:29:25+00:00

Soon as i saw the drawing i thought "Well, there's a familiar style!" And sure enough, it is by our old friend Ampersand, he of the ludicrous male privilege list. On his participation alone i refuse to waste my time reading the article.

2012-07-07T03:28:36+00:00

Feminism never says anything about men's issues, except when they do, then they're trying to appropriate them!

thetrollking · 2012-07-07T00:47:48+00:00

Why all the Ozy Frantz and Noah Brand hate? I really don't see them as a problem or threat to men's rights, but then again, maybe I'm naive on the whole issue.

I mean, aren't they fighting for similar things as us?

2012-07-07T04:29:17+00:00

This shit will be as popular as any other feminism for men drivel. And they can claim to be part of the MRM all they want...

This is a war of ideas, not team membership.

G-O · 2012-07-07T08:30:48+00:00

"Underscoring this point is the fact that there is something that calls itself a Men’s Rights Movement, but it consists of nothing but knee-jerk anti-feminism. It is made up primarily of angry, alienated men who have fully bought into the myths of hegemonic masculinity and gender roles, and not found the success and happiness that the myths implicitly promised. Since feminism is the only movement around that is attempting to dismantle those myths, they conclude that feminism is the cause of their unhappiness. If not for those meddling feminists, things would be okay. They would argue that this is a mischaracterization, but a thorough examination of their arguments reveals that this is, in fact, their sole intellectual basis. Any analysis of any issue that does not begin and end by blaming feminists, or preferably all women, is immediately discarded. Thus, lacking the social analysis tools feminists pioneered, they can accomplish nothing but surly misogyny and occasional outbreaks of violence. The authors of this book spent quite some time attempting to find MRAs who could be engaged in a constructive manner, but eventually gave up. If men’s rights are to be addressed on any kind of serious level, it will have to be by feminism."

Title	What About The Men: Chapter 1, Introduction and Principles -Feminist appropriation and colonization of the MRM at its finest.
Author	thetrollking
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Date	July 6, 2012 8:51 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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