Well, here’s another nice misandry you’ve gotten us into
Posted by Richie on September 14, 2007
In today’s media, anti-male sexism is the rule far more than anti-female sexism. Whether it’s calling men “idiots,” creating smart mom/stupid dad TV shows, publishing books with titles like “Are Men Necessary,” our culture is full of what some scholars are calling the “WAW effect,” short for Women are Wonderful. These days, it’s tough to catch a break if you’re an unapologetic male. [source]
Man A and Man B arrive at their lodge meeting late, bumbling in and making fools of themselves. Man B is worried that he won’t be able to attend the upcoming lodge party, because his wife runs the house and she won’t let him. Man A scolds him and tells him to take charge, because “Every man should be the king in his own castle”. They return to their homes. Man A’s wife – depicted as sensible, long-suffering and busy cleaning whilst her husband is a fool who wastes his time goofing off at the lodge – tells him that Man B’s wife has gone duck hunting, an activity which is clearly chosen to undermine Man B’s masculinity. Man B, with typical male incompetence, then locks both of them out of Man A’s house, and must rely on Man A’s wife to open the door for them. She scolds them and tells Man A to “come inside, you bad boy”. Man B, depicted as a childish ignoramus, eats wax fruit, to the despair of Man A’s long-suffering wife, who just can’t stand being around these two morons, calling Man B a “dodo”. She then refuses to allow Man A to go to the lodge convention, telling him off like a naughty child, mocking him and demanding he go to the mountains with her instead, where they’ll learn about art and culture, because women are sensible and men are stupid. She then threatens him with a carving knife and tells him to “shut up and don’t talk back”.
Man A waits for her to leave the room before he tries to talk to Man B. However, when Man A turns around to initiate the conversation, his wife returns to the room and hits him over the head with a clay vase so hard that the vase shatters. The audience is encouraged to laugh at Man A’s predicament, turning the contempt for men into comedy and disguising its real danger. Man A then attempts to stand up to his wife, but she hurls two more vases at him, both of which shatter upon contact with his head. Man B’s wife returns home, holding the ducks she’s shot and brandishing a gun. The two competent, collected and intelligent women then laugh about how stupid their husbands are, calling them “barnacles”. Man A’s wife later throws a metal basin at him hard enough to break it, and the audience is again encouraged to laugh at women hurting men.
Now, am I describing:
- The nightmarish future of comedy. Good God, if only we’d listened to Nathanson and Young WHILE THERE WAS STILL TIME!!!
- An episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, the feminist Trojan Horse responsible for driving misandry to its highest recorded level since the Depression and rainfall to its highest level since the Wall Street Crash.
- Sons of the Desert, a Laurel & Hardy movie from 1933, which, if I’ve done my sums right, predates “today’s media” by some considerable margin.
Correct Answer: Can we just stop pretending “Men are dumb, women are sensible” is a recent development? It’s getting embarrassing. Christ, The Benny Hill Show depicted men as dumb, and I don’t think anybody’s going to argue that particular piece of television was influenced by feminist ideology. Also, #3.

Thal said
Oh yeah. Because you never see stupid women depicted in the media. No, no, no.
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/whatwomenwant.html
SCENE 219 – INT. NICK’S OFFICE – DAY
FS ON NICK APPEARING IN DOORWAY AS HIS GIRLS MOVE IN FROM FG TO OTS FACING HIM.
EVE:
Oh good, you’re on time.
HE RELUCTANTLY ENTERS AND THEY BEGIN GROOMING HIM AND REMOVING HIS JACKET.
NICK:
Morning.
MARGO:
Morning.
EVE:
What’s the matter? You look different.
MARGO:
You know, I think maybe it’s the hair. It looks a lot thicker, doesn’t it?
EVE:
Give me your coat.
MARGO:
Mm, and you smell good today.
EVE:
New cologne?
HE MOVES INTO FG TO OTS FACING THEM.
SCENE 220 – MS ON NICK WAITING TO HEAR THEIR THOUGHTS.
SCENE 221 – MS ON GIRLS STARING BLANKLY AT HIM.
SCENE 222 – BACK ON HIM .
NICK:
That’s it? No other thoughts?
SCENE 223 – BACK ON GIRLS.
MARGO:
What do you mean?
EVE:
You feeling alright, doll?
SCENE 224 – LAST FRAME OF REEL.
Never.
Richie said
She’s, like, so whatever.
Thal said
And I’m like, so nauseous.
Richie said
My favourite stupid woman character is Nanny from Count Duckula. Actually, I think I just realised why I like Count Duckula so much: It inverts the standard roles by having the blundering comedy oaf character be a woman and the long-suffering sensible one trying to hold the house together be a man.
Helen said
Kickass post, as usual, Richie.
Margaret said
So I’ve been lurking ’round this blog for awhile, but now I’ve decided to comment. You are blessed for this reason. Or not.
More evidence of misandry? My small private Christian school’s senior class has 10 girls and 6 boys. SEE? Even religious schools are scaring boys away because they’ve been so feminized! In said senior class, the top 3 achievers are me and two other girls. Also, there are something like 10-13 girls in trig, and 2 in calculus, but only two boys in trig, and none in calculus. Well, there was a third boy in trig, but he’s decided to take physics now. But don’t you see? The pervading misandry is preventing boys from advancing in a subject they’re better at by nature! In light of the feminazi attack on my school, it’s amazing that the school is still holding onto the oh-so-sensible doctrine that women cannot be pastors and elders!
P.S. I hope you’re feeling better. Hay fever AND the flu? Ouch. I’ve had a cold and allergies at the same time, and that seriously sucked.
Richie said
My graduating year had 55 boys and 57 girls, causing our beloved class clown to announce “I LIKE THOSE ODDS!”. This was one of the few things he said that actually got a laugh, so he took to repeating it at every opportunity with greatly diminishing returns.
I’m better now, but still phlegmy. Phlegmatic.
Margaret said
Ooh, did you know that the secret of the mancans has been revealed? Gee, ’tis a shame they don’t sell that stuff in the States. Or maybe you can do unmanly things without growing mancans here? Hmmm….
Richie said
Yeah, I just promised myself I wouldn’t update again until I got another essay done. I downloaded one of their manly ringtones and deleted it before it finished playing.
Polyestergirl said
Everybody Loves Raymond? But its written and produced by men… Like pretty much almost everything, really.
L.M. said
Polyestergirl-
“But its written and produced by men… Like pretty much almost everything, really.”
Sexist men often show up at feminist blogs to whine about sitcoms being “anti-male”, because they have lots of of slobby, vulgar, brainless men. (Although your statement works as a nice response to the “anti-male” charge – and also that so many sitcoms have some fat dude who has a sexy wife.)
Grace said
You know, I actually thought about Everybody Loves Raymond while I was reading that except Deborah would never call Raymond a ‘bad boy’ because then he’d probably have to naturally assume she was trying to turn him on, as per usual ELR script template. That’s another one that pervades sit-coms isn’t it? You get married and then your wife witholds sex from you, causing you to whine and leer at busty younger women, which is totally normal – apparently.
Yeah it’s funny how no one comes in with the argument of ‘oh this female director/screenwriter is such a misandrist, look how she portrays men as simpering fools while their wives [*cringe*] wear the trousers’, because there are hardly any, excepting of course Jane Espenson…damn her, and damn Marti Noxon too! /sarc
Richie – you did kinda give it away now I come to think of it, your post title was so transparent…ahem…cuz like I say it was *obviously* Laurel and Hardy, and not poor, happless Ray Barone.
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