The Misandry Bubble

February 15, 2010 8:53 PM

Learn of The Misandry Bubble, the Venusian Arts, the 'Mancession' and 'Sheconomy,' Shaming Language, Girlie-Men, Adult Entertainment Technologies of 2020, and additional musings in a lengthy scribe whose Thesis is: "The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, and where male nature is vilified but female nature is celebrated. This is unfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020."
posted by wallstreet1929 (55 comments total)

...Dammit -- why'd you have to go and post an FPP that makes me want to get up and hunt this guy down and smack him?

I mean, I JUST got into jammies and got all comfortable, and now I'll have to get up again and change....*sigh*
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:58 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

This is good.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:59 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Fire up the Dodge Charger!
posted by Artw at 9:00 PM on February 15, 2010 [5 favorites]

Aww. It looks like someone's collar is chafing a little bit.
posted by felix betachat at 9:00 PM on February 15, 2010

Who is as awesome as Indiana Jones AND the Fonz? Who? It's an impossible challange!
posted by Artw at 9:01 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Good Lord, maybe it's because it's midnight and I need to go to bed, but that essay reads like a Dr. Bronner's label.
posted by mojohand at 9:02 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

*after reading a bit more*

I take back my earlier comment. I have a policy of Keeping My Hands Out Of The Crazy.

I can stay in my jammies. Goodie, because they're the cowboy ones! *settles in happily*
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:02 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Well now, posting this on MeFi aught to go over about as well as a turd floating in the baptismal font...
posted by pla at 9:02 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

The author does have a point--in his view, I'm sure totally undervalue his theory. I know this because I place a value of "0" on the executive summary, and I don't hate myself enough to read the whole thing.
posted by maxwelton at 9:04 PM on February 15, 2010

Oh hi there Dave Sim I see you've written a new article about how the voidsisters are trying to castrate you yes it's very nice here have some warm milk off to bed now with you
posted by Avenger at 9:05 PM on February 15, 2010 [10 favorites]

"This is a very long article, the longest ever written on The Futurist, at about 22 printed pages. As it is a guide to the next decade of social, political, and sexual strife, it is not meant to be read in one shot but rather digested slowly over an extended period, with all supporting links read as well. As the months and years of this decade progress, this article will seem all the more prophetic."

Kids, that's what is known as a warning label.
posted by maxwelton at 9:05 PM on February 15, 2010

I feel sorry for this guy, he must have a really tiny penis. And there's no longer an A-Team around to find it.

Oh, wait...
posted by crossoverman at 9:07 PM on February 15, 2010

Should I point and laugh or point and get angry? I can't decide and it's very important because this article is a major part of our national dialogue about gender.
posted by kathrineg at 9:09 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Best of the web? Get outta here. I have no need or desire to slow down and watch the mixed faeces and blood welling up from intellectual roadkill like this.
posted by smoke at 9:10 PM on February 15, 2010

Surely the only bubble here is being blown out of the author's arse?
posted by Abiezer at 9:11 PM on February 15, 2010

Also, I just want to point out that this article is basically what happens when well-spoken but slightly clueless guys go through a terrible divorce.
posted by Avenger at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2010 [2 favorites]

Oh come on
posted by regicide is good for you at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Why does it seem that American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are receding, that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems elusive? What if everything from unsustainable health care and social security costs, to stagnant home prices and wage stagnation, to crumbling infrastructure and metastasizing socialism, to the utter decimation of major US cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, could all be traced to a common origin that is extremely pervasive yet is all but absent from the national dialog, indeed from the dialog of the entire Western world?

In other words: what if there's a single, dogmatic, sound-byte "answer" that neatly ties together all my existing prejudices?
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2010 [3 favorites]

Anyone who can write this sentence "This is neither right nor wrong, merely natural" cannot be taken seriously.
posted by oddman at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Ladies and Gentlemen, your new A-Team.
posted by Artw at 9:13 PM on February 15, 2010

The picture of the Macho Man Randy Savage hoisting Miss Elizabeth on his shoulder reminds us that behind every good heel is a good valet.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:14 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

The Masculinity Vacuum in Entertainment:

Because when I think manly he-man hulk guy, I think Cosby Sweater. He could have at least included a picture of Theo's faux Gordon Gartrell.
posted by sallybrown at 9:15 PM on February 15, 2010

It's like Bjørn Lomborg impregnated Theodore Kaczynski and Gene Ray was the midwife. Later, absinthe.
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:15 PM on February 15, 2010 [3 favorites]

How much do y'all want to bet that this guy has the URL for this article on his Match.com profile?
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 9:15 PM on February 15, 2010 [3 favorites]

A contemporary version of that picture would feature, what?

- Mike "The Situation"
- Edward James Olmos as William Adama
- The loser from Family Guy
- Michael C. Hall as Dexter
- The dudes from Supernatural
- Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer

...Sounds about the same to me. An improvement in some cases, even. Kinda depressing in others. So what else is new?

As for the main thrust of this insanely long article, it all looks a little Dave-Sim-meets-timecube for me at this late hour. Let me know if I missed anything.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:16 PM on February 15, 2010

Huh huh huh..."thrust".
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:17 PM on February 15, 2010

This movie tells me there are fewer masculine icons nowadays. It's true, dammit. I hate that fewer boys will grow up trying to emulate Picard.
posted by Rory Marinich at 9:18 PM on February 15, 2010

Actually, it looks like This is the new A-Team

(from crossoverman's tiny link)

*sigh*
posted by delmoi at 9:18 PM on February 15, 2010

FFS. This is like Timecube for sexual politics.
posted by unSane at 9:18 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

This thread needs pictures so I can post that picture of the guy who has his head on fire and the caption is: "The stupid! It burns!"

You'll just have to imagine it, though.
posted by WinnipegDragon at 9:19 PM on February 15, 2010

People married at the age of 20, and usually died by the age of 50. People were virgins at marriage, and women spent their 20s tending to 3 or more children. The wife retained her beauty 15 years into the marriage, and the lack of processed junk food kept her slim even after that. This is an entirely different psychological foundation than the present urban feminist norm of a woman marrying at the age of 34 after having had 10 or more prior sexual relationships, who then promptly emerges from her trim chrysalis in an event that can best be described as a fatocalypse.
posted by Electrius at 9:19 PM on February 15, 2010 [4 favorites]

Maw, get my shotgun....
posted by Splunge at 9:20 PM on February 15, 2010

This quote springs to mind, that I think I found via Metafilter.

Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists. Warren Farrell, in The Myth of Male Power, points out how much propaganda has infiltrated the culture. For example, he says that the assertion that women earn so much less than men is bullshit. The reason women earn less than men is that women don't want the dirty jobs. They aren't picking up the garbage, taking the janitorial jobs and so on. They aren't taking the sales commission jobs that require you to work all night and on weekends.

Most women like clean, safe offices, which is why they are still secretaries. They don't want to get too dirty. Also, women want offices to be nice, happy places. What bullshit. The women's movement is rooted in the belief that we don't even need men. All it will take is one natural disaster to prove how wrong that is. Then, the only thing holding this culture together will be masculine men of the working class. The cultural elite--women and men--will be pleading for the plumbers and the construction workers.

We are such a parasitic class.

-Camille Paglia
[text-only link of an interview, safe for work]
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:21 PM on February 15, 2010

Part of me does get minorly irked by the moronic fuck-witted imbeciele that is Ad Dad, and his equally dim witted sitcom version of him, but fuck it, getting seriously annoyed by it could take time away from enjoying watching shit blow up and googling Russian firearms websites as research for writing comics.
posted by Artw at 9:23 PM on February 15, 2010

The wife retained her beauty 15 years into the marriage, and the lack of processed junk food teeth kept her slim even after that
posted by sallybrown at 9:23 PM on February 15, 2010

I blame the Rockefellers and other crypto-satanic Freemasons.
posted by fleetmouse at 9:23 PM on February 15, 2010

I'm training to be a nurse. When a natural disaster strikes, who do you think will be patching up the plumbers and the construction workers?
posted by supercrayon at 9:24 PM on February 15, 2010

too long, didn't read
posted by nathancaswell at 9:27 PM on February 15, 2010

I think the construction workers will be fine because they've got those tough hats and are too drunk to notice injury.
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:27 PM on February 15, 2010

Actually, it looks like This is the new A-Team

'The Losers' vs. 'The A-Team'
posted by Artw at 9:27 PM on February 15, 2010

(aaand... here's the trailer)
posted by delmoi at 9:30 PM on February 15, 2010

I'm training to be a nurse. When a natural disaster strikes, who do you think will be patching up the plumbers and the construction workers?

The male nurses. Also, we don't need patching up. Gangrene is, like, a badge of honour around here.
posted by unSane at 9:30 PM on February 15, 2010

(aaand... here's the trailer)

The bit with the tank is rather compelling, but I have chosen my side!
posted by Artw at 9:31 PM on February 15, 2010

that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant

bozo bit set here; declined to read further
posted by Maximian at 9:31 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

C'mon, that's not how you do it. As always, leave it to a proper misandrist.

Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

However, this moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that the male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging in the time-honored and classical wars and race riots, men are more and more either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The female, whether she likes it or not, will eventually take complete charge, if for no other reason than that she will have to -- the male, for practical purposes, won't exist.

Now I can't be the only bloke to whom it's occurred that war, lots of gay sex and drugs doesn't sound like the worst way out.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 9:32 PM on February 15, 2010

Can we please not do this here?
posted by chinston at 9:35 PM on February 15, 2010

unSane : FFS. This is like Timecube for sexual politics.

You read fast. I started when this hit the FP, and have only made it half way. Of course, I have complete confidence you didn't just tune out at the executive summary, right? You wouldn't see a few key words and stop reading before judging the content as worthless?

Maximian : bozo bit set here; declined to read further
nathancaswell : too long, didn't read

Oh, nevermind.



oddman : Anyone who can write this sentence "This is neither right nor wrong, merely natural" cannot be taken seriously.

I know, right? Like those damned Brits, clearly driving on the wrong side of the road. And people who prefer chocolate to vanilla - Don't they know that all things in life must necessarily involve value judgements?
posted by pla at 9:36 PM on February 15, 2010

crossoverman: "I feel sorry for this guy, he must have a really tiny penis. And there's no longer an A-Team around to find it."

You know, this guy is likely nuts and all, but making fun of him by emasculating him? That's, yknow, sexist.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 9:37 PM on February 15, 2010 [2 favorites]

Man, I'm going to print out that Paglia quote and the SCUM quote side by side and post them on flyers all around the city with my address underneath and in 28pt font "WHO WANTS TO FUCKING FIGHT?????!"
posted by supercrayon at 9:38 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

I blame the Rockefellers and other crypto-satanic Freemasons.

I blame it on the rain. (warning: Milli Vanilli)
posted by Meatbomb at 9:43 PM on February 15, 2010

"Female economic freedom : Despite 'feminists' claiming that this is the fruit of their hard work, inventions like the vacuum cleaner, washing machine, and oven were the primary drivers behind liberating women from household chores and freeing them up to enter the workforce. These inventions compressed the chores that took a full day into just an hour or less. There was never any male opposition to women entering the workforce, as more labor lowered labor costs while also creating new consumers."

what
posted by exlotuseater at 9:44 PM on February 15, 2010

also timecube
posted by exlotuseater at 9:44 PM on February 15, 2010

Hey, you wanna know what's really masculine? Not bitching for 22 fucking pages.
posted by zinc saucier at 9:45 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

I have complete confidence you didn't just tune out at the executive summary, right? You wouldn't see a few key words and stop reading before judging the content as worthless?

I can't speak for others here, but sometimes one or two paragraphs is all it takes to establish that a given article is merely trading in absurd, Ann Coulter-esque reactionary bromides. If you want to defend the article's positions, do so. But convincing me I need to get past the howlers in the two paragraphs I read will take more than just chastising me to read more. Life is short.
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 9:46 PM on February 15, 2010

Hey, you wanna know what's really masculine? Not bitching for 22 fucking pages.

Yeah. Men either write sentences or they write novels. If your thoughts aren't worth a day through Dublin, you shorten it and punch it through my skin.
posted by Rory Marinich at 9:48 PM on February 15, 2010 [2 favorites]