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The #FeministsAreUgly hashtag on Twitter confuses and frustrates some of the internet's most dedicated feminist-haters

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#FeministsAreUgly is confusing a lot of people, misogynists included. The Twitter hashtag – which took off yesterday and is still going strong, if not quite so strong, today – was originally started not by misogynistic trolls but by two feminists, @LilyBolorian and @Cheuya, who intended the hashtag to be a way for feminist women to celebrate their own beauty, whether it conformed to conventional (and generally white-centric) standards or not. As Bolorian put it,

https://twitter.com/LilyBolourian/status/497453684440444928

https://twitter.com/LilyBolourian/status/497398674054725634

Women responded at once by doing just that, and the hashtag was quickly flooded by feminist selfies. This being the internet, it was also flooded with comments from misogynists and trolls. Given how many of the latter were posted, many feminists on Twitter initially assumed it was just another outburst of internet misogyny; it took a little while before the feminist origins of the hashtag became widely known.

So how did the devoted antifeminists of the manosphere and the Men’s Rights movement react to the hashtag? Some responded with unabashed glee. The regulars on Roosh V’s forum reposted the selfies of some in women posting in the #FeministsAreUgly hashtage, mocking them as fat, lazy “cunts.”

One commenter offered this helpful observation:

A lot of fat crazy feminists are also obviously on heavy psych meds. One of the tell tale signs is volatile temperment and grandiose delusions. The weight gain is often a side effect of some of the drugs. So next time you run into some fat cunt spouting feminist rhetoric just keep in mind she could literally be crazy (bipolar) too.

Another waxed conspiratorial:

Feminist women are trying to turn themselves Idols to be worshiped.

It all ties into the writings of Alice Bailey and Madame Helena Blavatsky.

But elsewhere in the misogynistic online subculture sometimes called the manosphere the responses were a tad more complicated and conflicted.

On the Red Pill subreddit, the hashtag seemed mainly to make the regulars angry. A fellow calling himself MajorStyles won himself some upvotes for a comment complaining that

these bitches have gained control of the media for the past 40 years. Enough is enough. They have desecrated the moral landscape of this country to a barely recognizable wasteland. Fat tattooed harpies who shit on men of value.

Time to call them on their shit.

Over in the Men’s Rights subreddit, the regulars were wary, many of them afraid that the hashtag was some sort of sneaky feminist trap to make them look bad … I guess by luring them into posting what they really thought?

SleepingSheeple 18 points 20 hours ago  Probably started by feminists trying to manufacture victimhood.      permalink     save     report     give gold     reply  [–]ArchangelOKC 4 points 11 hours ago  A false flag attack, basically

Among the assorted antifeminists I follow or otherwise encounter on Twitter, there were two basic responses. Some flatly declared that yes, feminists are ugly:

https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/497801834548199424

https://twitter.com/FemsHaveBallz/status/497601470527983616

Others, a bit more circumspect, suggested that the real problem is that feminists are ugly on the inside.

A Voice for Men “Honey Badger” Hanna Wallen tried to have it both ways, posting a Dworkin joke aimed at a feminist who, like Dworkin, has dark curly hair, followed by a series of earnest and often incomprehensible tweets trying to prove that feminists (including me, specifically) have ugly souls.


I can only imagine how tough it’s been for MRAs to read through this hashtag. MRAs constantly attack feminists as fat and ugly; feminist women who aren’t fat are accused of having “manjaws” or other allegedly unflattering features. But many MRAs are also vaguely aware that constantly attacking their opponents as a bunch of uggos doesn’t exactly seem very statesmanlike. And so, many MRAs bite their tongues.

It’s tough being a men’s human rights activist. Sometimes they have to pretend that their opponents are actually human too.

 

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blahlistic (@blahlistic)

I’m not keen on feminists diagnosing people either, because then it can look like *we* are also throwing people with mental illnesses under the bus.

Throwing me under the bus will probably not get that bus fixed, even though larger vehicles are easier to work on than cars. :p

dustedeste
dustedeste
10 years ago

Sorry I just dropped that first comment and then peaced out! I had surprise!workshift. Hooray for closing the store 6 nights out of the week >.<

Anyways, I definitely have a few types, but those types are very disparate! And my husband and I have very different preferences when it comes to women, which I always find amusing. (He's straight, so obviously we have differences in our preferences of men, too, haha, given that his preference there is "NOPE" and mine is… variable.)

Binjabreel
10 years ago

Omg I’d been trying to figure out where I remembered Madame Blavatsky from. I think Mary Roach has a piece about her in Spook.

Though armed with the knowledge of who she is I think I’m even more confused than before.

beegee
beegee
10 years ago

@Bina on the good old days and femine beauty

Thanks, now I’m picturing some red pill dudes getting sent back in time and arguing with all the men about how men can’t find the “fat” ideal of the day attractive because of biotruths! 😀

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

@Policy of Madness: I’ve got lots of alleged flaws too, by conventional standards. Funny thing, relative to your comment: my teeth were the one thing I always liked about my face, cos I have prominent canines. Fangs is good! 😀

@tesformes: Three years it took and according to Greta Christina’s article it’s buried at the end of another of his piles o’ shit? Yeah, fuck him, I don’t believe it. I like Rebecca Watson’s meh response to it, though.

@Binjabreel, yeah, knowing who she is definitely makes the reference even more ridiculous! I don’t think I’ve ever heard Blavatsky’s name mentioned in connection with feminism. ::baffled::

beegee
beegee
10 years ago

“Fat” being the term used by the red pill dudes, obviously. 😉

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

MRAs certainly don’t believe any men who say they like women who don’t fit the currently popular mode, so I doubt that they’re quite ready for the concept of beauty standards as a thing that changes over time.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

whether wearing a boot on my head in public is a form of harassment.

Dare I ask?

It must depend on the boot.

Wearing Uggs on the head in public would definitely constitute harassment.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

MRAs certainly don’t believe any men who say they like women who don’t fit the currently popular mode, so I doubt that they’re quite ready for the concept of beauty standards as a thing that changes over time.

Make ’em look at Rubens’s The Three Graces (note: nudes) and watch their teeny little heads explode.

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

I’m not even going to attempt the “different cultures can have different beauty standards even within the same time period” conversation with an MRA, since I know that it will inevitably be some poor woman who has to clean up the mess from the resulting head explosion.

katz
10 years ago

The grace in the middle clearly has a wedgie. She’s looking at the one on the left like “um, can we stop dancing for a sec…”

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

Oh, I dunno, I’d clean up that mess quite happily as long as I got to watch it happen. It wouldn’t be any worse than some of the muck I dealt with at the Museum.

Just make sure he ‘splodes on tile or lino rather than carpet.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

katz, LOL!

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

Her facial expression is a bit “not too happy with this”, now that you mention it.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago
Kootiepatra
Kootiepatra
10 years ago

The weight gain is often a side effect of some of the drugs.

I think this is the first time I’ve heard a Red Pill dude ascribe weight gain to anything besides eating lots of junk food and stealing the scooter at Wal-Mart from people who “really” need it. Like there’s the tiniest glimmering of a clue that “calories in, calories out” isn’t quite how human beings work.

Too bad he smothered that clue in skeevy ableism, misogyny, and fat hatred.

BritterSweet
BritterSweet
10 years ago

When an anti-feminist calls feminists ugly/fat/hairy/lesbians/etc., my usual retort is, “Even if they were, they’d still be right.”

Phoenician in a time of Romans
Phoenician in a time of Romans
10 years ago

Kittehserf:

Wearing Uggs on the head in public would definitely constitute harassment.

In Australia, it’s simply suggestive flirtation…

marinerachel
marinerachel
10 years ago

In Canada, it means “I’m available”.

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

Gah, I have seen the price of true Uggs. Bloody hell, does Aussie have a sheep shortage or something – they’re really expensive.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

In Australia, it’s simply suggestive flirtation…

Only among the bogans!

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

You call them bogans, we call them ex-pats living in Queensland. 😛

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

ROFL!

I like that joke (I presume it’s an NZ one) about all the NZers coming here raising the intelligence of both countries.

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

Source of that quote, third paragraph here: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/kiwis-overseas/page-4

Although that type of wit is much more associated with David Lange than Robert Muldoon.

kittehserf MOD
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago

Good God, that was a Piggy Muldoon line? You’re right, if I’d thought of any PM doing quality snark like that it would have been Lange.