MRAs Are The Worst (And This Awesome Guy Knows It)

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Like all people, men have rights. There are universal problems that impact both men and women, and there are some societal problems that adversely impact men more than they adversely impact women. It’s true.

But not at levels that are in any way comparable to the degree to which women have been negatively impacted by millennia of patriarchal cultures. It’s just . . . not comparable.

Feminists want to remove the pernicious patriarchal influence from the world—basically, to restore balance to the Force. That means that, in addition to the many problems that adversely impact women (and children, and the LGBT community, and various minorities), feminists want to get rid of the problems that adversely impact men. Patriarchy is the source of these particular ills, and feminism is all about curing it.

So men’s rights are pretty solidly covered by feminism, in case anyone ever wondered. And hooray!

Except that Men’s Rights Advocates (MRAs) exist, for some reason. They seem to want to only focus on men’s rights issues. And there are strong anti-feminist and misogynist undercurrents (some of them are hardly under) in MRA organizations and conversations.

My point? This awesome guy. He understands. And he talks about MRAs so perfectly.

 

Seriously go watch this video. It is short and perfect. (NOTE: NSFW for language)

 

I am a man. I am a feminist. I have no patience for MRAs. At all. If you think that there are situations in society, culture, and even the law that assign specific roles to men and women in a way that is unfair to men, then it sounds like what you want is feminism.

 

PS: I do not ever recommend scrolling through the “MRA” tag on Twitter. That level of infuriating stupidity is a lot to deal with in one sitting.



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Women’s Rights?

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Do you remember a long, long time ago when women had no rights? They couldn’t decide what they should do with their bodies, they really shouldn’t work and if they did no man wanted them and the whole point of living was so a man would want you…do you remember that? Of course you do because it was freaking yesterday.

Fox News went on a tirade about how women should stay home. This was after a PEW report came out saying females are the primary breadwinner. So Erick Erickson, in all his wisdom, had this response, “I’m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they’re anti-science. But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complimentary role.” Tell that to lions, elephants, penguins, and ALL THE OTHER SPECIES THAT ARE FEMALE DOMINATED. What an idiot. Someone should gag him.

Next up: Representative Franks of Arizona. He banned abortions after 20 weeks, fine—that’s five months. That’s a bit late in the game—but then, at a House Judiciary Committee he added that his bill didn’t need an exception for rape and incest. Um, yes it does. It certainly does. His explanation, “The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” NO IT IS NOT LOW. Sorry that needed all caps. This douche is not a doctor—I’m not even sure he’s human. When did it become okay for idiot men to run around spouting fake facts and getting away with it?

Why are they not held accountable? Why are writers and Rachel Maddow the only people standing up and saying, “Excuse me, Asshole. That’s not true and here’s proof. Or let me put it this way—I showed you mine you show me yours you infant!”

I’m sick of this. I’m really sick of it. If you don’t have a vagina, a uterus, or boobs then you don’t get to have an opinion or vote on them.



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Woman Assaulted By Court Marshall

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We all know there is an epidemic of sexual assault in the armed forces. But this case is getting a lot of press because—well it involves the guy that was supposed to charge people with sexual assault. According to reports this is what happened:

“Contreras was in Clark County family court in August 2011, with her two-year-old daughter, finalizing a divorce case. Then she was suddenly taken, by herself, into a room with court marshal Ron Fox to be searched for drugs. (There is no explanation given for why the search was needed.) During the search, the 28-year-old alleged the marshal touched her breasts, her butt and asked her to pull up her shirt. Then, Contreras walked back into the courtroom where Donniger sat, politely said she felt uncomfortable and “offended” by Fox’s requests to lift up her shirt, and that if she needed to be body-searched, could it be done by a woman. Patricia Donninger ignored her. Then Fox suddenly instructed another cop on duty to arrest her for “making false allegations against a police officer.”

But there were no false allegations and there is no law about making false allegations against a police officer. She was taken, illegally searched, illegally detained, and falsely accused. Really? There is a video from KLAS-TV that shows Contreras being confronted with two officers threatening to cuff her, and push her to recant, and she does, she’s also assaulted and ignored by the judge while her two-year-old plays.

Her child was taken to Child Haven and Contreras was sent to jail. This happens in the year 2013—what will you do about it?



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Kanye is the Worst

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I really don’t like Kanye west. I used to, his music is alright, but West as a person sucks. What a piece of junk—what’s worse is he thinks he’s a bar of gold. Vulture put together some amazing quotes from a recent interview of West’s. Enjoy:

  • “I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.”

 

  • “I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.”

 

  • “I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.”

 

  • “The longer your ‘gevity is, the more confidence you build. The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.”

 

  • “It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.”

 

  • “I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they’re all the same as that coach.”

 

  • “You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This is wrong.’”

 

  • “I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also.”

 

  • “I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war.”

 

  • “I looked at Justin, and I was like: ‘Do you want me to go onstage for you?’”

 

  • “I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.”

 

  • “I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?”

 

  • “Like, this is my baby. This isn’t America’s baby.”

 

  • “This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration … I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body.”

 

  • “Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?”

 

  • “I would go up the escalator [at Virgin music stores] and say to myself, ‘I’m soaking in these last moments of anonymity.’ I knew I was going to make it this far.”

 

So remember when you pick up the latest Kanye West album you are reaffirming what he thinks of himself. Do us all a favor and stream or illegally download it. Don’t give him anymore ammo.



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