Men’s Rights Activists learned a long time ago that the easiest way to win an argument with someone is by playing the old straw man game, ignoring what they actually believe and instead pretending that they believe something much less defensible — and much easier to rebut.
Trouble is, when you’re actually debating one of these people directly, they may point out to you that they don’t actually believe what you claim they believe. And this makes it oh so much harder to win the argument.
Luckily, MRAs have found a workaround for this little difficulty. Instead of debating real feminists who can argue back, they debate imaginary ones who say only what the MRAs allow them to say.
One quick visit to a stock photo repository and hey, presto! You’ve got yourself the following memes depicting Straw Feminists Confused About Everything.
Er, what? Feminists have the power to ban hot babes from going out in public? Do these hot babes have to make themselves less hot before they can get a walking around permit from the Department of Jealous Feminists Who Won’t Let You Go Out if You’re Too Hot?
I think I may have posted this one before, but I still don’t quite understand it. Hey MRA dudes, you’re supposed to confuse the imaginary women in your memes, not the rest of us!
This dumb little cartoon, drawn in 2003 by a dude hoping to sell a few t-shirts, has provided MRAs with thirteen years’ worth of cheap outrage so far. Congrats, MRA meme-maker, for squeezing a little bit more outrage from its desiccated corpse.
I ain’t saying she’s a golddigger but, yes, you are saying that. Again. That song is more than a decade old. Move on, dudes.
Scildfreya is a national/blog treasure.
Science Fluttershy is best Fluttershy. Scildfreya, may I add my voice to the ones saying that you’re awesome?
Oh, hey, I’m back on moderation. I must not have commented since the site change. >_<
B’aw, you guyse.
I am mostly trying to be nice for my own health, I tend to go all anxiety-attack when I am confrontational. Other people are better at being incisive anyways.
And besides, I wouldn’t want to use The Stare on the poor guys. That’s just mean!
Now with legal precedent in the United States in the form of Affluenza!
Well, maybe not exactly. But it works in parallel at least!
If you wanted to hear someone who makes more sense than Dustin..
https://vine.co/v/h5tmMlxFKjM
Yep, Scildfreja definitely wins the thread, and the whole damn Internet. You (and your ponies) are adorable and intellectually terrifying (in a very, very good way).
Cupcakes for you!! Cookies! Baby ponies!
Scildfreja is best Fluttershy. I here most of her posts in that voice.
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Wow+fluttershy+really+is+a+tree+a+tree+in+a_67ab64_3496719.jpg
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/20140921/5111530/fluttershy-hugs-discord-o.gif
Typos…
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/8/87/Discord_unhappy_S4E11.png
No. I hope all of you get lost in a hedge-maze somewhere. We’ll see how well your social-justice rating lists will help you all when you’re lost somewhere and you need to use real smarts to get your serfs out. Goodbye, imbeciles.
Well, that was disappointing.
For a note, Dustin, if you decide to read this again, I’ve actually taught wilderness survival courses when I was younger, and am perfectly capable of surviving in the bitter Canadian winter with little more than a pot and a knife. This stuff:
http://www.peakprosperity.com/sites/default/files/content/article/article-photo/winterwalk.jpg
The reason I say this is that your assumptions about people you’re talking to are rarely correct – this is true of everyone, not just on the internet, and not just fro you, personally. Everyone does this.
I hope that you can let go of the hate that’s blinding you one day. Until then, perhaps remember Aesclepius? First, do no harm!
In fairness, I would be totally incapable of surviving getting lost in the wilderness, which is why I avoid the wilderness entirely, and instead live in civilization, where one hopefully doesn’t have to worry about the next meal or how to sleep in shelter and safety at night and can, therefore, work on making things better for people who do have to worry about the next meal and shelter and safety.
See what I’m doing there, Dustin, is not wishing awful things on strangers who disagree with me, instead I’m hoping we can all make life better for everyone. I bet I’m a much happier person than you are, too.
Apparently skills at arguing what one believes and exchanging information with someone one disagrees strongly with are not “real smarts”. Good luck with that.
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/62/621db942a40b322a0e21c5a761632aa8162151b187b724f36ba4762a4dcfeea7.jpg
I’ll just have to hope that I don’t encounter any hedge-maze’s.
@Canadian
Stop with the fake niceness. You’re not really nice, you’re just making fun of me. How’s that multiculturalism and socialist healthcare with long waiting periods working out for you, poutine-breath?
@Isidore
That’s too bad, because when you leftists cancer ruin society and cause the downfall of western civilization, there’s going to be trouble in the streets, and you’re going to wish you knew how to take care of yourselves instead of relying on the government to do it for you.
Guck you.
I don’t think getting lost in a hedge maze would be all that scary. If you’re in a hedge maze, you’re probably on some fancy estate in the English countryside or something.
Lost in the corn on the other hand…
http://idolosol.com/images/children-of-the-corn-3.jpg
I’ll take a hard pass on that.
Hey dude, I’ve been in some hedge mazes. Those are no joke!
Wishing death on others on the internet? How common. Eh hedge mazes are overrated, best to burn the thing down and grind the ashes into fertilizer. Or maybe just right hand rule.
Then again why even bother with that when I have the comforts of home, away from pestilence and disease.
Apparently, in Dustinworld, knowing that self imposed famine isn’t the greatest reproductive strategy = must not have wilderness survival skills.
I think he just didn’t think his evopsych arguments through and got scared when we were able to answer them, so he had to flounce.
Poor Dustin.
There’s a new troll who got lost in the shuffle
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/04/04/women-cant-be-trusted-with-voting-free-speech-or-power-alt-right-blogger-declares/comment-page-4/#comment-764233
Probably just a drive by, but the ranting about lesbian feminists was kind of funny, so I figured I’d alert the gang.
Were I lost in the wilderness, the first thing I’d want to have is fat reserves.
However, seeing as I’m not lost in the wilderness nor likely to become so, it would be silly to base my self-worth on how good I would be at it.
getting out of a maze is easy, just pick a wall and follow it.
She’s actually being nice. She could be a lot meaner to you. I’ve seen her do it. Tearing into trolls like a lioness tearing into a wildebeest. You got off lucky.
Though, as a ‘Murrican, multiculturalism and socialist healthcare (even with long wait times) sounds awesome because I won’t have to pay thousands of dollars just to ride in an ambulance and I won’t wait until I’m dying to go to the hospital so I don’t go bankrupt and end up homeless because I needed a medical procedure done.
And so does poutine! I mean, fries and cheese curds with gravy? Sounds delish!
Also, props for just devolving into insults and epithets instead of actually attempting to prove anyone here wrong. Much logic, such alpha.
Though, right wingers have been predicting that leftists will cause the downfall of western civilization for a while now (since before I was conceived I imagine), and I’ve yet to see it happen, so…
I’m not Canadian, but funny story: I moved from the US back to Australia purely for the socialised healthcare. So, not exactly a devastating insult there. =P
I’m giggling at “get your serfs out.”