Some feminist memes and toons.

[ZombieHorde]

[snooper2]

1. on that second one..

she doesn't own her lower legs or feet?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. her cat owns them

Great set of memes, OP

[ZombieHorde]

21. Yeah, that artistic choice made me raise an eyebrow too.

Oh well, the point is clear, in my opinion, but it's also funny.

[cyberswede]

2. I like the last one.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. " . . . said no one ever."

That's what I've always wondered. The "Hey chickie chickie baby baby, why don't you come over here and suck my cock." Does that EVER work? And assuming it has a virtually 100% failure rate, what ARE they trying to accomplish? Honest to goddess, guys, stop it. It's puke-worthy.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I think it's to humiliate the woman walking by

It certainly isn't any kind of a compliment.

[redqueen]

6. Exactly. It is to reinforce dominant status.

To shore up the sense of higher status in the man doing it, as well as that of the men around him, and to reinforce the woman's understanding, as well as that of any woman witnessing this happening, that women are of a lower status.

[geek tragedy]

7. if he can't force her to have sex with him, he can force her to listen to him

talking about it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. the more uncomfortable and beaten down the woman's reaction,

The bigger the kick they get.

Proves your point.


Think back to second grade.....little boys like to upset the girls. Makes 'em look big to their friends too.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Mostly, it's to show off their mating call to other males.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Nope. It never worked with me.

[VWolf]

10. ... and it never worked FOR me

[In_The_Wind]

11. Other lines will work depending on the delivery.

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[cinnabonbon]

8. Kicked and recced

because we don't get enough feminist toons.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

9. The interesting thing is that many MRAs also hate gender roles...

...they just complain about it from a male perspective. The dad who loses custody to the crack-addicted ex because she's a woman, and everyone (especially the courts) know that its women who are supposed to take care of the children.

Mind you, both groups also attract lunatics from the fringes, who hate the opposite sex. But there is a lot more agreement than disagreement, and many MRAs could be also persuaded to adopt feminist perspectives if given a little encouragement.

Just a thought.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[geek tragedy]

13. it is utter bullshit to portray the MRAs and feminists as co-equal

seekers of equality.

both groups also attract lunatics from the fringes

Yeah, just like the NAACP and the "white power" movements also attract loonies . . .

The dad who loses custody to the crack-addicted ex because she's a woman, and everyone (especially the courts) know that its women who are supposed to take care of the children.

How many custody cases have you litigated?

MRAs are largely sexist assholes.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. And how often does that happen?

"The dad who loses custody to the crack-addicted ex because she's a woman, and everyone (especially the courts) know that its women who are supposed to take care of the children. "

Supporting data?

[geek tragedy]

17. he could ask my wife's clients, who get drug tested when trying to win

custody of their children away from the men who beat them up.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

23. Sure. Here's some supporting data.

Please note, I'll not get into a duel of anecdotes, as that's not useful at all. There are terrible one-off decisions being made around custody cases every day. So let me point you to this. I think it's reasonably balanced:

"In the old days, the courts used "the best interest of the child" as the explanation for why they gave custody to one parent or the other. Old Bureau of Census statistics indicate that in the early 90s the custody continued to be 90% to the mother, 9% to other family members or child shelters, and 1% to the fathers. Usually, "best interest of the child" was shorthand for "the kids go with mom and dad gets to see the kids ever other weekend, split of the holidays, and a week or 2 in the summer."

In those days, it was exceptional for even those fathers whose ex was verifiably drug addicted, alcoholic or mentally ill, to win custody of his children. (To be fair, it should also be said that some fathers got the court to believe this even when it wasn't true--I have met many women who didn't have custody, who didn't seem to fit any of these categories.)

The courts in the old days weren't particularly shy about what they were doing with custody. One judge in the South was quoted on the record as saying he never gave custody to fathers because in his experience on the farm he had never seen a calf follow a bull around in the pasture; the baby calves only followed their mothers."

Look at that first Bureau of Census statistic. 90% vs 1%. If there was a Bureau of Census statistic that said that nationally, whenever police went to break up a bar-fight, they arrested black people 90% of the time, vs 1% of the time for whites, would you suspect the police might be possibly racist? Or, would you be a Rush fan and say that that blacks are 90 times to cause violence as whites do?

There are people who do evil and hurtful things all the times in custody cases. Including both sides lying. Constantly. I will also say that courts are being a bit more even-handed these days - which is actually a good thing. But gender roles are still heavily in play in many parts of the country concerning this. And if you're entirely in favor of gender roles when it helps you, only against it when it doesn't, then you're very much a hypocrite.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[AtheistCrusader]

26. Un bloody likely.

In 2009, census bureau cites custodial fathers at 17.8 percent of custodial parents.

That tells us nothing about how many fathers actually sought custody.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-240.pdf

In 1997 that number was 14.9 percent
http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/p60-212.pdf

So I suggest you scrap that bullshit 'Father Mag' source you just threw out.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

27. Things are clearly headed in the right direction...

...and, frankly, I'm now wondering a bit about that 90%/9%/1% stat myself. So I'll give that to you.

But while we're on the topic, do you have a problem with a magazine intended for fathers? That parenting isn't something they should be interested much in?

If so, I think I might be able to point out someone else who has serious gender role issues to you.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[geek tragedy]

28. Fathermag.com is an extreme rightwing male supremacist shitrag.

Sample quote:

The worst sex abuse danger your child faces these days is not from adults or other children, but from government sex bullies.

To keep sex abuse a growth industry, its practitioners are increasingly targeting children, especially boys.

There's a section dedicated to defending convicted child rapist Roman Polanksi.

It's a website for misogynists, by misogynists.

More:

Because the last thing that presidential hopeful Biden wants is for persons to draw historic parallels between the Violence Against Women Act which portends the widescale curtailment of men’s civil liberties, and the injustices that befell wrongly-accused Black men generations ago.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

30. Alright. Fine.

Here is something you don't see on the D.U. every day. I withdraw my quote using "FatherMag" and cede the point entirely.
I'm not a big fan of Roman Polanksi, even if he's apparently BFFs with Whoopie Goldberg.

Facts and reality do matter to me. Cite them against my current position, and I will change it. (My position, not the facts.)

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[redqueen]

31. "the Violence Against Women Act which portends the widescale curtailment of men’s civil liberties"

These groups are dangerous.

[AtheistCrusader]

33. My 'code word' alarm is going BLEEP BLOOP WARBLE all over the place

off that line

[AtheistCrusader]

29. I have a problem with it if it's going to print something an editor didn't actually check.

Being off by 1300% or thereabouts, depending on the year (Census is a once a decade thing) to support an agenda I'm not even sure is an issue is spectacularly disingenuous, and worthy of equal levels of derision.

I am a father, and such a thing could potentially be useful, depending on what it is crafted for, and why.

[redqueen]

32. Here are two absolute MUST READ articles about these groups.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/08/angry-men-feminist-agenda/

http://www.salon.com/2009/11/05/mens_rights/

[Sheldon Cooper]

18. lol

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. Absolutely This One -

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on edit: adding this one because it goes so well together.

[redqueen]

22. That Tina Fey quote is so very apt. nt

[Beacool]

20. And then there's the cover of Time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/time-cover-hillary-clinton-sexism_n_4611209.html?utm_hp_ref=hillary-clinton

[geardaddy]

24. K and R

[Beacool]

25. Thank you.

[shenmue]

34. Pretty good :)

I like them.