When Men’s Rights Advocates argue that they won’t care about issues women face unless feminists do free labor for men first, they’re admitting that they want to sit back and do nothing and have women cater to themselves before even admitting that women’s issues matter.

They believe women are not allowed to help ourselves, that our labor belongs to men first and foremost. They have a problem with women doing things for ourselves because they believe women’s labor should be men’s property.

It’s a subtle thing isn’t it? What op has done here. They declared that MRAs want feminists, a group comprised of men and women, to do all the work for men’s issues. Then switched the word to women as if it’s interchangeable with feminist, it’s not. They then continue as if demanding feminists help men too, is trying to enslave women to their cause. That the work men do in feminist circles is really really the property of women, and men have no right to it. Irony completely lost on op.

The best part, in my humble opinion is the upfront assumption that women in the MRM (and there is a lot) are only there to serve men. No one hates women more than feminists, especially if those women fail to swear fealty to the Holy Mother Church of Feminism who art Infallible. After all look what happened to Cassie Jaye the moment she stopped having blind faith in the church of feminism. Her staff bailed on her, her financial backers bailed on her. Friends she’d known for years acted like she’d become Pol Pot 

But the real meat here is, as far as I’ve seen, no MRA has ever demanded that feminists work on men’s issues first, and then they’ll consider women’s issues. I welcome @respectthefemalebody to prove me wrong. Do what no one else on this god forsaken hell site has ever done, show me a self-identifying MRA doing what you say they all do.

I was thinking of it as more of “People who find themselves with a conservative/right outlook, but don’t conform to the hyper religious pear clutching culture that’s been a laughing stock for decades”. The label “alt-right” was smeared onto every group the left hated in an attempt to discredit it before I could dig into it and verify my initial impressions of it. Because of the left’s blatant smear campaign and poisoning of the well, I don’t consider “alt-right” to be a valid label anymore.

hello, if anyone heard about the cartoon cartoons zine through the fact that fucking ta//ka//shi0 reblogged our post tonight-

DO NOT APPLY, WE DO NOT WANT YOU

I’m going to be screening applicants a lot more closely if people apply tonight or tomorrow. I know a lot of people are applying for unrelated reasons, so if you’re a good person, you don’t have anything to worry about

*note that the reason we don’t want applications from these people is because that blogger is a known pedophile*

@truebuggy

Got any proof? Cause I don’t believe allegations without proof.

aka

Of course there’s no proof. because the OP is completely full of shit

Yo @takashi0 , they’re talking shit about you and treating your name like it’s voldermorts

>“Known pedophile.”

@truebuggy you mind not slapping that label onto people it doesn’t apply to just because you don’t like them? Because the more you do that the more people won’t fucking listen to you when it turns out to be an ACTUAL pedo. 

www.theredpillmovie.com

Young feminist documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye has taken on subjects that many have considered controversial in her short career. From “Daddy I Do” a documentary about religious abstinence programs to “The Right To Love” a film about same-sex marriage advocacy. Cassie has elected to take on her toughest challenge yet, giving the Men’s Rights Movement a fair shake in “The Red Pill”.

It’s been a real challenge for Cassie to get funded, and feminists have threatened career suicide on her. It took Milo Yianoppolous making a plea via Breitbart to actually draw attention to Cassie’s kickstarter to get her the funding she needed, most of which came not from Feminists or MRAs.

So now the film has had a premiere this past Friday, and early reviews are starting to trickle out. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, there is only one critic review up, and it’s very negative, some choice quotes are:

“…for two agonizing hours, Jaye tumbles slowly down America’s stupidest rabbit hole, discovering that Men’s Rights Activists are actually just dudes who have been dicked over by a culture that punishes masculinity.”

“I do cherish one flourish: an animated sequence of falling snowflakes, each with a different MRA complaint printed on it, meant to illustrate the movement’s diversity of grievances. There’s “Misandry”! There’s “Restraining Orders”! Even the metaphor is hilariously white.”

” Thanks to David Futrelle’s invaluable site We Hunted the Mammoth for collecting Elam’s most horrible bleatings.”

Meanwhile, the five audience reviews are currently showing %100 fresh. It’s still too early to tell, but I remain optimistic that this film could make some waves. We know one thing, Cassie Jaye, you are a honey badger now, no matter what you took away from this experience.

Sources:

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/warning-you-cant-unsee-the-red-pill-the-documentary-about-a-filmmaker-who-learns-to-love-mras-9172459

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_red_pill_2016/reviews/?type=user

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/10/08/the-red-pill-cassie-jayes-movie-that-feminists-cant-afford-women-watching/

SUPPORT THIS MOVIE!!!! 

Is Futrelle for real?

Some people are claiming that most of the funding was by MRAs, others are claiming that it was mostly not by MRAs. The truth is decided by which option the speaker is better able to smear people with at the time.

Given all the lies and manipulative editing all previous interviews and documentaries have been, MRAs' initial scepticism was well warranted. Cassie found out first hand just how dishonest and manipulative people are when it comes to trying to make an actual honest documentary about the subject.

Why did the University of Minnesota Host a Neo-Nazi Rally?

The University of Minnesota recently hosted a rally by a Neo-Nazi blogger.

Milo Yiannopoulos is not a conservative. Milo Yiannopoulos is a neo-Nazi. 

I’m not exaggerating. Here’s are some pictures he posted on his old Instagram account. He’s wearing the Iron Cross (an old symbol associated with the German military and long-beloved by neo-Nazis) and tenderly cradling some copies of Hitler books:

Yes, those are his hands in the above picture. He’s wearing the same tacky ring in the picture below:

The above images were posted to his old Flickr account, where he went under his old pseudonym Milo Wagner (perhaps taking the name of the German composer beloved by the Nazis):

Here’s a Holocaust meme he posted in 2009:

This isn’t just some youthful edgy foolishness, either. His beliefs are very much in line with those of the Nazis. He’s immensely racist, sexist, transphobic and homophobic (even though he says he’s gay).

He has said that allowing white women to use birth control is bad because it will allow ‘inferior races’ to out-breed whites:

If someone wears Nazi jewelry, proudly carries Hitler books, spouts Nazi ideology and looks like the results of a failed eugenics experiment, then he’s a Nazi.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a neo-Nazi.

When called on this, he’ll claim to be Jewish. But he’s not. He was raised Catholic.

So why did the University of Minnesota give this neo-Nazi a platform? It seems incredibly irresponsible, and quite unsafe for any Jewish students. 

I know it’s important to look at all sides of an issue, but we already heard the Nazis’ side in the 1930s and the 1940s.

I can’t think of an answer, but maybe the University of Minnesota can tell you. Here is their contact information. Get in touch with them and ask them why they chose to host a neo-Nazi rally.

For all I know, maybe Milo was a neo-nazi in his youth. Personally, I just think it was an edgy phase (or, more likely, fake). Either way, nobody hosting Milo’s talks are hosting neo-nazi rallies. Even if Milo actually was and still is a neo-nazi, he is not identifying as one publicly or representing their ideals. I guarantee you that most neo-nazis would be disgusted by him.

I’d love to give the benefit of the doubt here and assume everyone who believes what you’ve posted here is a whacky conspiracy theorist, but I actually think it’s far more sinister. See, if Milo can be framed as a neo-nazi, he can be dismissed. He can be silenced. Not only that, but large groups of people who associate with Milo or just follow him can also be easily dismissed and silenced if you believe they’re all essentially neo-nazis.

So, yeah, nice try. Freedom of speech will come out on top in the end and people like you will just be the stupid, crazy people online that normal people check out for entertainment like a fucking freakshow. 

Also the iron cross was a Prussian symbol of valor that farrrr predated the Nazis or even Germany as a nation. Get it right.

OP forgot the important Nazi imagery that he should be wearing!!!

So then, the evidence presented here is as follows:

As a young, edgy Jewish Catholic, Milo once took a photo of himself wearing a military cross that he’d probably bought in an antique shop that day. The punks he has expressed admiration for used to wear swastikas - that didn’t make them “Neo-Nazis”, very much the opposite, they were antifascist almost to a fault, and wore them to provoke thought and shake up people’s complacency. Much the way Milo does with the things he says now.

Later on he read a mainstream (published by Penguin) biography of Hitler. You know, the way anyone with any interest at all in history and especially the causes of the 2nd World War has done. Wow. The smoking gun.

Milo RE-blogs a funny picture depicting Hitler as if he’d just won at a video game. Oh the depravity.

As a rebellious young Jewish man, Milo Yiannopoulos, bearer of a seemingly unpronounceable last name, chose to take on one from the past to write under - again like the old punks such as Tom Verlaine and Penny Rimbaud - and if not just because he liked the sound of it most likely settled on that of the great composer Wagner just because he knew, being Jewish, it would ruffle peoples feathers.

Milo correctly points out the birthrate in the west is dropping but for the large Muslim families who still have very large families. Note the introduction of the phrase ‘inferior races’ by OP rather than Milo himself, who has never used such a term. But regardless: Islam is an ideology, a set of flawed and destructive beliefs about the world one voluntarily chooses to hold. Islam is not a race, and to speak out against it is not racist.

Aaaanddd… that’s it?

Yeah, that’s it.

Back on earth, Milo - again, a Jewish homosexual - has repeatedly stated he is, if anything, a BLACK supremacist, in that he only dates black men, and that black people in America are the only group still owed something. He has publicly stated these countless times. He has also on several occasions pointed out that allowing freedom of speech to the openly racist British National Party was the thing that sunk them, because “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. Is it even imaginable that a “Neo-Nazi” would do or say (or be) ANY of these things?

No,of course not. But here, let me help you: Go back and dig out all those photos of Milo at Neo-Nazi rallies and speaking at National Front meetings and sieg heiling for the camera in his 18-hole doc martins while showing off his new ‘white power’ tattoos. Then you’ll have a case.

Oh that’s right, you can’t.

You know why?

Because they don’t exist.

Milo is not a Neo-Nazi, and this is a very very very silly post that would simply be laughable and easily dismissed if not for the very obvious and creepy agenda behind it clutching at any straw possible that might smear or discredit someone enormously popular who is openly critical of your own racist bigotry and hate.

im so tired

“THOSE DANG DIRTY MRAS AND GOOFYGRAPERS!”

Pffft.  “Accusing Sony of deleting comments”–Bitch, we have been WATCHING them delete comments.  But, whatever.  Keep lying through your teeth, I guess.

“GamerGate totally deserves to suffer the consequences of actions they never took in the first place!” Good lord, this isn’t just retarded…this is transcending the earthly realm and entering a higher sphere of retardation. https://archive.is/hHMrO https://twitter.com/PhoenixCE/status/665760169385586690 https://twitter.com/LunarArchivist/status/666035844013256704

None of these self-titled journalists did a moment of research, vetted their sources, or verified a damn thing. They didn’t even take a moment to wonder how the guy was taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a copy of the Quran.

…And it’s GamerGate’s fault that they published that shit.

So, let me get this straight Gawker found some random ass picture that couldn’t really be connected to Gamergate (Or proved that anyone from it made it), published it in an article saying it “went viral”, and used it to throw an anti-gamergater under the bus…so they could blame Gamergate on it? Am I correct so far?

“OK fine! It wasn’t GamerGate, BUT WE’RE STILL GOTTA BLAME THEM”

Gaming Journos in a nutshell

I’m sorry, because really I’m not very comfortable with GG people. But when you KNOWINGLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING IN ORDER TO TRY AND SCORE PERSONAL POINTS AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES? Yes, you ARE the shitbags, you goddamn fuckers.

Christ, you’re an ever bigger assclown than Jeet Heer, the senior editor of The New Republic. The people who’re knowingly lying and trying to score personal points against their enemies? They’re the mainstream media and your SJW friends. By your own standards, you’re goddamn fuckers. You’re the shitbags. You. Not us. You. Get that through your thick skull.

this documentary about mens rights is bizarre 

what’s it called?

i must watch this immediately

Reggie yates’ extreme uk - men at war… Should I watch this?

holy fuck. that’s Roosh Valizadeh, the worst of all MRAs!! “From advocating for the decriminalization of rape to imploring men to sexually abuse women with mental illness to straight up dehumanizing women as an entire group, “The Return of Kings” is part of the “Manosphere”, a misogynist hate-scene that has been developing a growing presence on the web. Misogynists from all over the world are attracted to Roosh and his website not only because it, like all hate groups, provides an easy scapegoat to blame all of their problems on, but because it also promises to provide them with an easy guide to sexually abusing women. The most dangerous ideas that Roosh V propagates are about what to do with women in the real world: how to treat them, why and how they owe men sex, how to best take full advantage of their fundamental inhumanity.“ [X] monsters like this deserve life in jail, and as you can see here, he’s still hosting conferences & events.

Holy fucking wHAT?!??!!

SOMEONE PLEASE LINK ME OMG HORRIBLE MEN FASCINATE ME

Never mind it’s on YouTube oh my god

What’s terrifying is that you don’t know who in your life shares these views. Your male coworkers, coeds, professors, doctors…they could be like this.

Lmao! You inbred tossers! Roosh V is more anti-MRA than any feminist I’ve ever met. Holy shit, you guys didn’t even do the bare minimum of research.

“Men’s Rights” Has Become A Euphemism For “Sexual Loser” - RooshV.com The Men’s Rights Movement Is Dead - ditto

RooshV doesn’t ID as an MRA or like them, nor do MRAs recognize him as one of their own. As popular as the claim is among SJWs, it’s pulled out of thin air. Notice how that petition linked above says absolutely nothing about RooshV being an MRA, nor does anyone in the reblog chain provide any evidence to that effect.

Incidentally, it was Roosh’s website, Return of Kings, that had a negative review of Mad Max, which, to the press, somehow became MRAs in general disliking the movie. Which is ironic, considering that AVFM loved it. It’s all a piece with desperate attempts to blame MRAs for everything from supporting domestic terrorism to Elliot Rodger, when in reality, the worst people can pin on them is yelling at feminists in comment sections.

/not an MRA

Ugh, although this new series is supposed to be about men’s struggles and anti-feminism.

BBC chose the wrong guy and now it’s going to make MRAs like myself look bad when Roosh is a fuckin’ PUA if anything.

This is nothing more than a large smear campaign.

The BBC is usually good at doing their research. I think they knew exactly what they were doing when they chose this asshole to give a platform to.

MRA Group Searches For ‘Beautiful Virgin’ Brides With Intact Hymens

“If they weren’t good enough for the one they gave it up to, why would they be good enough for you?” That’s the logic behind a Facebook page called “No Hymen No Diamond,” which encourages men to put a ring on it only if the woman in question is still a virgin. Ladies, don’t these dudes sound like real marriage material?

“No Hymen No Diamond” is the group’s actual slogan.

Jesus fucking christ, Huffington Post.

They are NOT an MRA group. There is no evidence anywhere that they are. They don’t bring attention to men’s rights issues. They don’t call themselves MRAs.

Absolutely pathetic what you think passes for journalism these days.

Does the Huffpo actually believe it’s journalism?

That’s laughable

Call everything bad “MRA”! Build the strawmen in advance! Prepare your logical fallacies before the argument has begun! See that darkness, Simba, that is MRA; Bambi’s mum was killed by an MRA; the crucifix they nailed Jesus to was an MRA; Pepsi is an MRA (or Coke is, if you prefer Pepsi); Marmite may or may not be an MRA.

But MRAs are totally the bad guys here… *deep sigh*

Why do I smell the scent of 4chan all over this?

Smells like shit, looks like shit… yup, probably 4chan.

And seriously, why is this even a HuffPo article? Take out “MRA” and is it anything anyone would toss more than a passing eyeroll at. “Oh look some assholes are being assoles on the internet hurr hurr” they are scouring social media for any way to smear and discredit the MRM. Which is pretty curious, for people who “support equality.”

Yeah, this is slime-throwing.  The author needs reined back in.  She(?) did, to her credit, update the article to include the possibility of trolling.  But it is still essentially a rewrite of a Jezebel piece.

Dean Esmay did have this to say in response: 

Which seems reasonable, and female & feminist commenters seem to conditionally agree.

But this expectation is ridiculous because not every female is even born with a hymen, and those who have them can stretch (not “pop”–hymens don’t break or go away after penetration) them by doing various things, like sports… this is extremely unrealistic. And does the man apply this standard to himself (remaining a virgin for his future wife)? Why would he be allowed to take plenty of women’s virginity and “ruin a future wife”?

He actually has said a little bit about men being virgins before marriage. Judging by the conversations on the subject I've read, there're apparently a number of women who want to be their man's first and only taste of sex, which is one way the "men being virgins before marriage" idea is supported. If one side of the gender divide gets to have arbitrary conditions for marriage, then there's absolutely no reason for the other side not to. If at least one person decides they don't like the conditions, or how much their partner lives up to them, then they don't marry. That seems completely fair and reasonable to me. This isn't all about a man's demands. Women tend to make demands to, in case you were somehow unaware. You're forgetting that women have agency, and implying that men are the only ones who make demands. That's the only thing resembling actual misogyny (hatred of women, or thinking that they are lesser, or having no agency) that I've read in this thread.

-TVTropes YMMV/Cracked page (Unfortunate Implications)

Well, let’s see who, exactly, is describing MRAs as a “hate group”. Is it >that one SPLC article from 2012 that called A Voice For Men a misogynist site<, that SJWs, with their usual level of objectivity, chinese whispered into “the SPLC said MRAs are a hate group!”?

Nah. It’s another Cracked article. This moron is complaining that a Cracked article is wrong, then using another Cracked article as a source.* Oh, and using ye olde stereotype of MRAs as “angry” and “sexually frustrated”, which is only a step up from “virgin”. I’m surprised Gamergate wasn’t shoehorned in.

And as far as the mainstream press and SJWs like Cracked are concerned, all MRAs are really in the second group, and they’ve got the Paul Elam quote-mines from Manboobz to prove it. That second article uses a white supremacist and anti-MRA feminist >Michael Kimmel< as sources, but, notably, couldn’t be arsed to talk to an actual MRA. In fact, the bullet points in the article describe feminism more accurately than it does the MRM.

As for the first article overstepping and ending up seeming sexist against men, that’s the horse that bought you, pal, it’s too late to get off now. It’s not an accident, it’s clear the entire article is meant to slag off and mock MRAs and anyone mistaken for them. It doesn’t care about addressing men’s issues, just being rage-slash-clickbait. It’s not like it’s exactly uncommon for people mocking MRAs to slip and say something sexist against men.

Also, I can “literally describe” my right big toe as a structural engineer, but that doesn’t make it true.

* One which, according to the comments, takes comments from Redpillers and applies them to the MRM, which is, again, a common error made by people slagging off MRAs.

thechefponyspodium:

innuendostudios claims that #Gamergate has looked the other way concerning a pedophile’s history because of their alignment with Gamergate.

EDIT: KiA discussion place for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3eilgv/innuendo_studios_claims_that_gamergate_has_looked/

Bit of a clickbait-y title, but it fits.

You might have heard of innuendostudios​‘ “Why Are You So Angry?” video series, which he got a kickstarter for. It did a video on Gamergate (That consumer revolt labelled as a hate movement against women despite everything else saying otherwise), that did an autopsy on it (Don’t know how you can autopsy something that’s not dead). But there’s one thing I saw in the transcript that leapt out to me, the picture above. I have it highlighted, but I’ll quote the relevant passage:

Emphasis added by me.

Now as you might imagine, I didn’t like seeing this, as it’s false, so I sent Innuendo an ask to clarify this.

I don’t get a reply.

I ask again a few days later, when the buzz for the video dies down.

Still radio silence.

After another ask or two and eventually reblogging the video and asking, I asked him on Twitter.

Because let me tell you- implying that I would find out someone’s a sex offender, and then because of a glorified argument on Twitter, would turn the other way? That mildly pisses me off, suffice to say.

My fucking sides.

Based Genna. Holy shit. Okay, that’s pretty fucking hilarious.

http://strawpoll.me/4892489/r

https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/619902639325736960

Thank god that people are making fun of those articles that used a FUCKING STRAWPOLL as a source.

She’s already got more votes for “potato” than Rosalind Wiseman and Ashly Burch’s research survey had to prove that teen boys don’t love tiddies and that young girls love Call of Duty and Halo just as much as boys..

Wait, do people actually write stories about strawpolls?

I know, I don’t want to believe it either.

Have you got any links?

To articles on strawpolls? No. I didn’t know until I saw the post that anyone took strawpolls seriously.

So you just assume that it is true?

TIME: https://archive.is/SM9JL

Engadget: https://archive.is/NAE69

The Mary Sue: https://archive.is/WOmWF

Wired: https://archive.is/XyiS0

Rawstory: https://archive.is/XJ1yC

MTV: https://archive.is/mFeYn

Destructoid: https://archive.is/RO1S1

Polygon: https://archive.is/sW2cC

Betanews: https://archive.is/z2TKX

The Guardian: https://archive.is/m56iv

The Star: https://archive.is/zXBlF

Fast Feed: https://archive.is/gpZJK

sellinlemonade @tuxedomask3

Unfucking believable 

this never gets old

Yeah, those men who are complaining about their issues totes deserve to be mocked for it instead of trying to understand and correct them*. That’s certainly not reinforcing their gender roles in any way.

Oh, wait, there are plenty of female MRAs, and MRAs often talk about gender roles that existed long before feminism. This video was objectively wrong.

But who needs facts when you can pander to a stereotype? IIRC, the creator was accused of using a straw man - which he was - and he basically went “well, it’s your fault for being so strawmannable!” or something equally stupid.

When major e-feminist concerns include dudes talking about the friendzone - again, often incorrectly linked with MRAs - and people taking up too much space on the bus, it’s kind of hard to argue that feminists are doing important work.

* Just try and argue that feminists do try that, and I will laugh at you. There’s a popular website dedicated almost exclusively to mocking MRAs. Not talking to them. Mockery. Feminists have spent much more effort trying to silence and discredit MRAs IRL and online than talking to them, to the extent of breaking the law, repeatedly, as far back as the 70s. The very fact that these gifs incorrectly portray MRAs as all male, yet still have tens of thousands of agreeing notes, indicates quite a lack of even basic knowledge of who MRAs are, much less what they actually say.

For example, did you know that MRAs want more men to be recognized as rape victims instead of being erased? That’s a worthy cause, right? Definitely not “whining”? How about ending biased domestic abuse standards that basically get men punished for calling the cops on abusive female SOs? Even if he never laid a finger on her, he’s likely to be assumed to be the aggressor. No, feminists aren’t fighting that; who do you think moved for those statutes in the first place? How about Earl Silverman, who struggled for years to run the one men’s shelter in Canada, couldn’t get enough funding, closed it down, then killed himself? He was just whining, right? Say, did you know that men are the majority of suicide victims? Almost as if telling them to suppress their emotions was a bad thing!

Did you know that:

1) A man made this

2) Everything you said wasn’t in those gifs or video at all. Everything you are saying in this post is literally fighting no one. just you rambling.

1) Yes, >I know<. I don’t care, and I do wonder why you think I would, and what relevance you thought that fact had.

2) Well, except for the part where the representative of MRAs is portrayed as male, and just someone whining about losing his privileges, while the representative of feminism is portrayed as a woman or girl trying to get the rights the dude has, as represented by ice cream.

3) In >the video<, he links MRAs to friendzoning, the stereotypical view of Nice Guys™, and implicitly The Red Pill. Oddly enough, there are more feminists claiming those link than actual MRAs, or members of those other groups. And then he claims >in this post< that he goes “out of his way” to show that not all MRAs are bad, or have invalid concerns, but he just couldn’t be arsed to do it in the video. No, he was only talking about the extremist MRAs, honest. I’m not even sure that at any point in that post he acknowledges the existence of female MRAs, he just keeps throwing out negative stereotypes about groups unconnected to the MRM, and just >lumps them all together in one great big stereotype of entitled, scared men<.

Where’s his evidence for even a single thing he’s saying? Where indeed.

My favorite parts are where he insists he’s done the research, and then says if the video is a strawman, it’s the MRM’s fault. He says any inaccuracy on his part is the fault of the people he’s inaccurately portraying. This seem like a rational actor to you?

4) Returning to point one; if you failed to notice me directly referring to the creator as a dude in my third paragraph, then I’m not inclined to trust your analysis of the rest of the post. Or the video. Or the color of the sky.

/egalitarian

An innocent woman has been murdered, and Men’s Rights Activists are applauding her death

totallyunbiased:

And what do you know, Manboobz is involved. Which is rather hypocritical, considering how quick feminists were to blame Elliot Rodger’s rampage on MRAs, and how Manboobz itself carefully didn’t contradict that narrative even as it tried to discredit the MRAs who disagreed with it.

Elsewhen.

Gamergate, as told on Snapchat. (For those of you who are obsessed with sources.)

Here’s another hint, only one of them has resorted to terrorist tactics to scare people into adhering to their agenda.

Only one of them has based their entire campaign around anonymous hate mail, to the point where they’ll send it to themselves.

And only one side has claimed the gamer community is hateful to women, but has actively shut down women in the gaming industry and stole from charities. 

Compared to 

Only one side has 

But you know, do keep taking pictures of yourself making retarded faces. Its honestly the best chance you have at trying to get people not to notice how stupid the shit you’re saying is. 

A teachable moment right there, but at least don’t use the word, ^‘retarded’!^

1st off. I’ll use whatever language I please. 

2nd. Don’t try to censor my posts with your little strikethrough. If you don’t like what I said ignore it. Do not edit my content because you disagree with it.

3rd. Don’t patronize people with mental disabilities like they can’t read the word just because it has a line through it.

4th. The fuck is the point of putting a line through mine and then spelling the word out in fucking bold no less?

Earlier in the week, we told you about the efforts of some trolls to convince people that Dylann Roof, the murderer who massacred 9 people at a church in South Carolina, was a brony. Some of the efforts, it seems, were briefly successful. The New York Times fell for misinformation provided by a teenager in the UK, claiming that Roof was a fan of My Little Pony, which only fueled the anti-bronies efforts to propagate their lies. This afternoon, it seems, progress was made as the New York Times has issued a retraction of their false information, which had placed an undue black-eye on the fan community. The Huffington Post has the story. http://ift.tt/1dclcgx The article that the New York Times posted, read as follows, using information provided by 16-year-old Benjamin Wearing, who has since admitted that he made everything up:

The teenager, admittedly, didn’t even know Roof, and never saw a tumblr page, or any evidence that Roof was a fan of the show My Little Pony. The fact that a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Journalist, took the word of a teenager on the internet at face value, especially in a case of national importance, is shocking. It has resulted in this retraction:

This is a sad day for Journalism, when we here at Horse News have to be the ones shaking our heads at the methods of Pulitzer Prize winners, for not fact checking themselves. Hopefully these articles will clear up the issue. Here is Benjamin’s Twitter Account, of which RaspberryPirate (the original poster of the Dash Shirt Photoshops) is a follower. https://twitter.com/goldennike11/followers

He seems to be getting tired of all the attention now.  I doubt this will die down any time soon.  

I mean on the one hand I can see why people are amused by this, I mean a kid tricked the New York Times and I think under any other circumstance, if it wasn’t about 9 innocent people losing their lives just for being black, I’d probably find it funny too.  But this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It just wasn’t the right thing to hoax about.  Isn’t there some kind of law about submitting false news stories?  I Just have a feeling now that this guy will get ALL this attention and be on the news and this talk show and that and be shown as a hero which his really smacking the victims of this whole thing in the face.   Or at least I feel it is.

If he really does regret it though, I’m not going to say, “Let’s show him what the fandom really is and forgive him”, not this time.  I’m just going to leave it as is and hope that something is done besides hailing him as a false god.