Man Boobz FAQ
Man Boobz: The FAQuening
Or, “what the deal is with that lady on the chicken.”
Q) Why do you call yourself Manboobz?
A) I don’t. The “Man Boobz” in question are the misogynistic dudes I write about on this blog. The term “boob,” in addition to meaning “breast,” can also mean “a nincompoop.” The title is a double entendre. Not to be confused with a double indemnity.
Q) But sometimes you post comments as “manboobz.”
A) That is true. I probably should not do that, I guess.
Q) Who are you really?
A) My name is David Futrelle. I’m a freelance writer living in Chicago. For more details, and selected clips, see here.
Q) Why do you spell Boobz with a z?
A) The manboobs.com URL was already taken.
Q) Oh, so only men can say dumb things?
A) No. Women can say dumb things too. There are women who are misogynistic and/or Men’s Rights Activists. When they say dumb things, I write about them.
Q) Do you hate men?
A) No.
Q) Are you against men having rights?
A) No. I’m a man. I like having rights. I’m opposed to the so-called Men’s Rights Movement, a reactionary movement driven largely by misogyny and hatred of feminism. (For proof of this, read the Man Boobz archives.)
Q) Why do you pick on MRAs?
A) I started this blog because I thought MRAs were vaguely annoying, and pretty much wrong about everything. Only after doing the blog for a while did I fully realize what huge misogynist assholes so many of them are. Also, when they’re not, you know, harassing people or vilifying rape victims, or that sort of thing, a lot of the stuff they say is really quite hilarious.
Q) Are you a feminist?
A) Well, yeah. This wasn’t really a big deal to anyone, until I started making fun of misogynists online, at which point it became proof that I was evil incarnate, that I was somehow a spokesperson for feminism, that I was responsible for anything and everything anyone calling themselves a feminist has ever done or said. There are millions of us, misogynist dudes (and dudettes); get used to it.
Q) Are you a pussy-begging mangina?
A) Do you even know what you sound like when you say things like that?
Q) Are you secretly funded by the international feminist conspiracy?
A) No. I am not funded by anyone. Some readers have very kindly given me donations. You can too, if you wish. Click that button over there on the right.
Q) Do you advocate killing children?
A) No. People make shit up about me all the time. (That’s an actual example.) If a misogynist or MRA says something about me, it is most likely completely untrue.
Q) I heard some MRAs call you fat. Are you fat?
A) Yes, I am fat. This may be the only true thing that MRAs have ever said about me.
Q) What’s with all the cat pictures?
A) I like cats.
Q) What’s the deal with the lady riding a chicken?
A) That is a reference to a myth popular in the manosphere: that virtually all women spend their late teens and twenties “riding the alpha asshole cock carousel.” That is, they (allegedly) have near-constant sex with a lot of “alpha males” who are also assholes, while cruelly ignoring kind, nice, hard-working “beta males” until the time comes to settle down and get married. By which time the women are all ugly, adding further to the oppression of the hapless beta male. The “alpha asshole cock carousel” is also referred to as the “bad boy cock carousel.” In the graphic this “carousel” is depicted literally, and with a different sort of “cock” than originally implied.
And, yes, t-shirts and other swell swag featuring the design are available.
Q) How about the mammoth?
A) This is a reference to a quote I once posted from a dude who felt women weren’t sufficiently appreciative of what men had supposedly done for them over the ages. Here’s the quote:
We men built a nice safe world for you all the the coal-mines of death, roads, railroads, bridges and tall office buildings. Its $1,000,000 spent per death of a man on a large dangerous project on average now you can just 9-5 it and call it a day in air-conditioned and heated safety. Forget about the wars we died in and the sacrifices made just ignore history or is it now hersorty? You are accruing the benefits without ever having to pay the price you still don’t have to sign up for the draft and who will protect you? The Sex and the City girls will fight off the North Koreans with their Manolo Blahniks?
Men gave you this modern world now you take it for granted we hunted the mammoth to feed you we died in burning buildings and were gassed in the trenches but that was just for fun right?
How quick and conveniently you forget who made this possible.
We gave you Leonardo da Vinci, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy not to mention countless others, Jonas Salk saved half the world from death and you just piss on it all.
And, yes, t-shirts are available with the mammoth design and quote as well.
Also?
“misogynist (n.)
1610s, from Greek misogynes “woman-hater” (see misogyny).”
So yep, new in comparison.
Yeah I have no idea what Guit’s point is here… He hasn’t made sense to me, but idk if that’s his English or something.
It’s italian links. If you can read it tomorrow I’ll post.
By the way, I don’t believe withes are oppressed.
whites
But you’re yapping about misandry, which is used to imply men are oppressed. That’s the point. They aren’t.
If you’ve bothered to read ANY threads on this site, you’d know why people are wonderinf if you’re a troll. You’d have seen the halfwits who come in with the “what about the menz” bullshit, who ignore what MRAs say and what they want, and who, not infrequently, pretend to be non-English speakers (with strangely inconsistent mistakes) or doctors or lawyers or academics.
You’re fitting the MO of quite a few trolls here, sonny Jim, so don’t whine if the word gets applied to you.
Oh yes, I’m stupid. I’m stupid enough not to understand I’m stupid.
There not exists in human kind a single category that can’t become oppressed by definition. This is a postulate.
So what? We’re talking about reality here, if you hadn’t noticed. Men as a class are not oppressed, so stop carrying on as if they are.
Um, no. When that “single category” is “the group considered the norm” no, they can’t be oppressed.
Maybe it’s just that I’m well over my Brennan quota for the week, but I’m totally seeing “trans* women oppress cis women by imposing the label of cis” (yes, this is a thing, that actually happened, I can find the convo if you want to gawk in horror)
In Germany, when the Jews were not yet persecuted, they told them they were wrong stigmatizing hate speech against them, because they were not persecuted.
Guit, you understand that there’s a difference between stuff that could possibly be true and stuff that actually is true, right?
Yes, there is a difference.
Ayup.
Right, I call troll on this one – equating the position of men as a class with the position of the Jews (who had been persecuted for centuries) is bottom of the barrel stuff.
Good grief, could we get through just ONE day where the situation of straight white guys in early 21st Century US/UK/Canada/Australia/Etc isn’t compared to the situation of Jews in 1930′s Nazi Germany?
Just ONE day!
“First they came for the Facebook rape joke memes, and I didn’t speak out, because I wasn’t a disgusting, woman hating asshat. The end.”
Seems to be too much to hope for, doesn’t it?
Be nice to get through a day without a troll doing the “no speak English” bullshit, too. Even though he’s so “scholasticized” as he claimed in another thread. Funny how such a scholar can’t give citations. One wouldn’t think that was so difficult. Or that such a scholar wouldn’t pick the difference between “you have shown you lack the skill in this foreign language to comprehend what you’ve read, so please stop wasting everyone’s time” and “ha ha ha go away you’re stupid”.
it started as the former, has passed through the latter and now arrived at “troll with strong whiff of sock”. It’ll probably arrive at “Hi, Pell!” sometime soon.
Troll & sock; two unpleasant tastes that taste rancid together.
Very much so.
Say, cloudiah, d’you remember which thread you did that terrific definition of hembling? MaudeLL was asking earlier and I couldn’t remember. Then I had to go out and get savaged by Maddie “I don’t want to get into the basket” cat and didn’t have time to look.
I actually have that linked, because I added it to my draft post on your Dictionary. XD
http://manboobz.com/2013/04/11/the-slut-who-got-ugly-and-sad-the-manospheres-favorite-fairy-tale/comment-page-5/#comment-311643
“Um, no. When that “single category” is “the group considered the norm” no, they can’t be oppressed.”
“In Germany, when the Jews were not yet persecuted, they told them they were wrong stigmatizing hate speech against them, because they were not persecuted.”
I’m going to dent my wall at this rate! Besides the FUCKING OBVIOUS Godwin, let me break this down to math, it is the universal language after all.
Group considered normal > groups ignored / not persecuted > groups actively persecuted
An example, in case you aren’t a troll, and for everyone else here (Guit, use google if you don’t understand the terms below)
Group considered normal = cis people > group ignored = non-binaries > group actively oppressed = binary trans* people, particularly trans* women (times about 10 for trans* WoC)
Like, my original statement, the one at the top of this comment? The group considered normal would be the fucking Germans, not the Jews, even in periods where Jews were ignored and not actively persecuted.
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Damnit, I had something to say that was’t about that! I’ll get back to you when (if) I remember.
Whoot!
::sits jiggling with excitement at Dictionary post::
I was going to go with the more obvious “if they weren’t being persecuted then how is it that there was there hate speech against them in the first place?”
You might be jiggling for a while. I’m too tired tonight, and tomorrow I am taking my mother to a medical appointment so will be limited to my phone for internet access. Although I am kind of hoping it won’t be all day, and maybe I’ll get home in time to work on Ye Olde Blogge.
No rush, just nice to have another post to look forward to. I can always pretend the jiggling is exercise.
Fingers crossed about the appointment not taking too long.
Cassandra — except I think Guit might consider things like that stupid “Boyd are stupid, throw rocks at them” shirt as hate speech against men. If he is a sock, and particular if he’s 90% of our socks, then creep is hate speech against men. When no, no it isn’t.
I was attempting a no goalpost moving answer. Probably failed consider they are a’dancing tonight!
Cloudiah — good luck with your appointment!
No-goalpost moving answers won’t get anywhere with Scholasticized (or is that Elasticised) Troll. He’s already gone from “I had a bad time with my mother!” to Godwinning.
Well I regularly brave the seven seas to feed, clothe and entertain the men women and children of various countries but I guess that doesn’t count as a contribution cos I’m a wee girl.
Helen – AND it means you must be stealing a job from some poor man!