I usually try to keep away from controversial topics around here, because that’s not really the point of the blog or the comics. But sometimes things are just so damn ridiculous, I feel I have to comment,
So today, there was a whole thing on Twitter about a hashtag men’s rights advocates (MRA’s, for short) were using, #ineedmasculinismbecause. The whole idea of MRA is pretty absurd, if you think about it: dudes have it pretty easy in this world compared to women, and the whole thing really just smacks of the same asinine “my business is more important than yours” bullshit that you get with folks complaining about affirmative action (does anyone seriously believe a kid raised in the inner city by poor parents has the same chances at success and a quality education as I did growing up in the middle class suburbs in Oklahoma? If so, can I also sell them some sea monkeys and a nice piece of beachfront real estate in the Sahara?). I know that, as a white middle class male, the way I see the world and the way the world perceives me is different than if I were a different race or female or not heterosexual. So this nonsense about men being oppressed that MRA’s seem to having going just…gets up my nose, as it were.
Anyway, it’s okay, really, because a bunch of feminists got ahold of the hashtag and turned it into a wonderfully hilarious farce.
Sketches From Memory 
Go Chuck. While I was in the children’s medical ward with a baby on a drip and going through every awful thing imaginable some years ago, there was a ‘serious’ debate in the media propounding that single people should have the same time off as parents do to look after sick children so they could take their pets for a walk and go cycling for their mental health. I honestly thought I was dreaming. It’s so true that we need to keep a perspective on our lives. Whenever some people start whining about how unfair their life is I try to politely remind them that, unlike some other people I know, they haven’t ever had to live in a Somalian refugee camp.
I would think Somalian refugee camp is something of a trump card in any discussion, honestly.
Yes – to be fair – you’re completely right about that.
I should say (to placate Mr PN) that I do think men in our society have a lot of stress on them in many ways and women have a good swag of faults.
Can I post a man joke? As told by Ken Robinson which is on a TED lecture you’ve probably seen?
‘If a man says something in a forest and there’s no woman there to hear it, is he still wrong?’
Please moderate if you this will further upset that other guy..
I’m not saying that men don’t have some very serious problems we’re facing – we do, honestly – I’m just saying that most of the problems we face aren’t nearly as pervasive or as severe as the systematic oppression of roughly half of humanity over the course of, oh, all of history. Guys like NP are taking their own personal experience and trying to say it’s universal. And that’s patently absurd. Whereas you see, time and again, women being threatened with violence, rape, and murder, simply for saying women aren’t being given equal treatment in today’s society (or for daring to have a thought on comic books, or sci-fi movies, or for being a “fake geek girl,” a concept I find so abhorrent, I can barely see straight). Guys have been in charge of most societies around the world since society consisted of folks hiding in caves from animals with big teeth, so no, I don’t think holding the MRA guys’ feet to the fire for the absurdity of their oppression complex is a bad thing. In short, I don’t care if it upsets this guy, ’cause I’m pretty sure he won’t be back, and I’ll just block him if he becomes too obnoxious.
Also, that joke is hilarious.
Reblogged this on Poetic Warfare and commented:
None are so blind as those – like yourself – who refuse to see reality as it truly is while living in a fantasy world. Perhaps one day when after you or someone you know has had their life destroyed, reputation trashed and financially raped as a result of a false accusation or a divorce they never wanted you’ll understand why the MRM became necessary.