Recommended: Manboobz

ManBoobz is a blog dedicated to finding the most extreme examples of misogyny and bringing them to light. And by extreme I really do mean extreme. There seems to be a certain culture in discussing gender (at least in most sites/real-life discussions I’ve seen) where if person X expresses a view you might think is misogyninist that you would utilise the Principle of Charity against them. Perhaps they express views whose outcomes are misogynist, or that it’s the logical implication of their views etc. In such forums, some people may be reluctant to imagine that many actually are misogynist in the crudest (and self-identifying!) sense. This is why Manboobz is an important site.

Most of the material comes from MRA (men’s rights advocate) sites. Of course there are many organisations that actually advocate for men’s rights in a sane manner. But most of these appear to be of the “men are the Jews for the gynocracy’s ovens”. (Click here if you don’t know the reference.) All quotes have been abridged and I’ve omitted the ellipses.

Manboobz finds an opinion on Anders Breivik the hero:

Anders Breivik sees himself as a soldier who is fighting for a worthy cause. That cause being his country. Women and leftists then make him out to be “insane� and are looking for “who is to blame�. Well they might start looking in the mirror. The most pervasive element of western civilization today is its hatred of men and all things male. There is a particularly strong hatred of fathers and husbands. I know. I used to be a father and a husband. I have never experienced hatred in my life as vehement as by women in divorce.
It is only natural and normal that some men decide to take matters into their own hands at all the hatred spewed at them and their marginalization. Men often see that some things are worth fighting for. Men often then take action to fight for what they believe in.
I have been telling women for three years now that hatred of men in general and fathers in particular is going to see men killing a lot of women and children. Well? We just saw 76.
This was an act of war and he considers himself a soldier. In different times, as in WW II, he would be called a hero.

Manboobz finds a classic MRA will from 1930:

At Le Mars, Iowa, the probated will of T. M. Zink, deceased attorney, revealed:1) His $100,000 estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman’s name, over whose portal will blaze: “No Women Admitted�; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow not 1¢.
“My intense hatred of women is not of recent origin or development nor based upon any personal differences I ever had with them but is the result of my experiences with women, observations of them and study of all literatures and philosophical works.”

Manboobz finds an opinion on Slutwalks. Again, if you’ve never seen the site before you might think this is someone making fun of a hypothetical non-existent viewpoint, but they’re not:

Every woman marching in the Edmonton Slut Walk is publicly declaring herself a slut. This means every woman there desires sex with any and all partners. Any sexual activity you initiate with them comes with implied consent. They cannot say no, and if they do understand all their ‘no’s mean yes. They are all asking for it. They want it bad. Now. From you. Go get ‘em!
The organizers of this event are not oblivious to this point: what they want is a fake sexual revolution. They want to be able to impersonate sluts without actually being sluts, and that’s unacceptable. If you don’t want to be treated as a piece of meat, don’t marinate and grill yourself and sit perched on a piece of garlic toast. You dress slutty, you show off the goods, you try to get a reaction, you will get one. Hint: it’s not always going to be the one you want.
[W]hen you impersonate a slut we don’t fine you, and we don’t throw you in jail. There’s really only one punishment for dressing like a streetwalker when you aren’t one: you do have to endure the occasional rape. You should really suffer it in silence. Accept the character flaw within you that caused this, and move on. Police and court resources are already busy enough with real criminals: like actual rapists who do nasty things to their niece or the homeless native chick passed out under the bridge, or a conservatively dressed urban professional walking to her car, or a girl out jogging in a track suit. To equate the act of actually violating and raping one of these people with having sex with a girl who’s every square millimetre of public persona screams anybody who wants to can screw me right now is ridiculous.
If you go out on the street in an outfit that would make Britney Spears feel uncomfortable, you do so knowing that your ultimate aim is to make men want you. Well, they want you now. Congrats. Oh, wait, you mean you didn’t understand what that implied? I call bullshit. You do know. But you want to be a virginal slut, to dress in ways that makes men helpless to their urges but still leaves you fully in restrictive control.
If your wife is one of them, I’m very very sorry. Maybe a good rape might make her a little more manageable around the house.

2 comments ↓

#1 BAD on 03.01.12 at 1:24 pm

That site is terrible. If he stuck to mocking horrible examples of misogyny I’d be happy. I’d probably read it. The problem is that he mocks the entire notion that men should have rights. He objects to any criticism of feminism at all and is pretty blatantly misandristic himself.

If he stuck to his premise, he’s be fine. However, he thinks anything that says men are better than swine and women are less than angels is misogyny.

#2 michael on 03.01.12 at 2:42 pm

How appropriate for a strawman so big it can be seen from outer space to come from an anonymous throwaway handle/email…

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