Imma go Web 2.0 on… your… arse. It doesn’t really work with an Australian accent.
Posted by Richie on June 19, 2010
Look who it is!
This is technically The Irate Gamer‘s fault. I’ll explain. The Irate Gamer is an inexplicably popular YouTube celebrity who earns his keep by getting angry at video games, despite not knowing anything about video games and being incapable of convincingly feigning anger. He also plagiarises a lot of his material from other reviewers.
Some people were, understandably, pissed off about this. They talked about it, left comments and got into arguments over it, but it was all quite vague. It wasn’t until people started making their own videos which pointed out his stolen material and lack of knowledge in no uncertain terms that the backlash against him really got moving.
So, this is me applying the same principle to the many, many Men’s Rights channels and videos that have cropped up on YouTube over the past few years. No leaving comments, no pressing “dislike”, no grumbling, no attempts to actually engage them in discussion, just destroying their credibility in a YouTube friendly format. There’s nothing in it anyone reading this won’t have heard before, mind, but at least it’s more watchable than any of Paul Elam’s original videos.
Dire Sloth said
Sir, this video alone has earned you a place in Valhalla. I look forward to many many more of these. I mean, it’s not like you have a lack of material or anything, right?
Richie said
Oh God, there really ISN’T a lack of material. It was originally supposed to be about a totally different guy, but his account got suspended last week so it seemed like a moot point to riff on him.
Janelle said
Ahh, I loved that
Subscribed under my account Phillydogger. Made me chuckle a couple of times, and was a nice big dose of good sense. I really hope you make more of these.
I would suggest speaking up a bit next time, though – that, or maybe raising the volume on your parts.
Richie said
Ah, duly noted (I edited it with headphones on).
jennygadget said
awesome video Richie
“I’m sorry” – was the best part of the vid
“oppression has some pretty obvious signs…like death”
right…and on a similar note, only murder and violent physical assault are actually bad/illegal things to do.
and regarding the rest of that rant – so, wait, women were never slaves?
Richie said
Yeah, and no women were involved in the Holocaust (joy divisons, anyone?) and no men have ever been allowed on life boats EVER. If there wasn’t a ten minute time limit it could probably have gone for hours.
venatus said
I can’t imagine how hard it is to actually sit through those videos without your pre-packaged comments but if you can make please make more of these.
Richie said
Oh, I will. Paul’s channel alone provides literally years worth of material.
Ultra Cuddles said
So that’s what a gender-traitor mangina sounds like! I’d always wondered.
Your voice is surprisingly deep and yet at the same time, buttery smooth. You should take up singing.
Richie said
SEGATAAAA SAAANSHIROOOO
tekanji said
Richie, if I had a youtube account you would SO be subscribed to. Keep rocking Web 2.0!
Richie said
I won’t be in the big leagues until I start co-hosting with a video game sprite that mirrors my thoughts.
Linda Radfem said
Dude, you have mad skills! Imma go watch it again.
Oriniwen said
The pauses for monitor-directed screams were welcome. And necessary.
Oriniwen said
And uncannily well-timed. They came at exactly the point I started making “what…fuck … blargh… wha….fuck … fuck…buck…” poultry noises.
Richie said
And as if by some great cosmic alignment: http://antimisandry.com/articles/truth-women-vote-22.html
wiggles said
It sure would be interesting if MRAs ever bothered to substantiate any of their assertions. They don’t have to though, because they’re male and white, and therefore objective authorities on everything.
agouti-rex said
Totally excellent, good show! This is really a perfect refutation of Elam’s pap. Of course, we already knew he was full of shit going into this, but I really appreciate that you brought to light a few extra instances of oppression that I was completely unaware of, like that whole vaginal feeding thing (WTF).
Also, totally unrelated, I went into a completely fresh rage when I saw that “State of the Union” cartoon in your video. Urgh, that’s a whole new level of shit. I used to work as a copy editor on a newspaper that ran that cartoon and it was maddening to see that drivel every day. Amusingly, the cartoonist is a complete lazy hack in addition to being completely misinformed about just about everything. He constantly reused art, including that strip you included in your vid. Not to toot my own horn, but scroll down here and you’ll see what I mean.
Also, I really hope you’re planning to do more of these. I really like this direction!
Richie said
I actually stole it from your livejournal in the first place.
When I worked for the paper here, they just ran a strip about two penguins who had sub-Seinfeld ripoff conversations about, you know, whether a cheeseburger without cheese is technically still a cheeseburger or not. It was drawn by a local artist and they hyped it up like it was going to be the next Garfield. There was even merchandise, which I naturally bought. There’s now only one known reference to it on the entire internet, and it’s been since replaced by some syndicated Far Side ripoff I forget the name of.
Actually, the best thing about the paper was that they’d have two front page stories, meaning the headline and the photograph often related to totally different events. But if you weren’t aware there were two stories, you’d just see – for example – a photograph of a local athlete with MAN HELD AFTER STABBING printed above it in huge letters. Miraculously, nobody was sued (My personal favourite was a picture of a man holding some donuts with the headline “JUST 108 DAYS IN JAIL”, as if he’s a supervillain who commits bakery-themed crimes).
wiggles said
Wow I think that’s the first time I’ve ever actually seen somebody argue out loud that women’s Suffrage was a bad thing.
a system where the elite and their womenfolk held most people in slavery
The old ‘citizens of earth and their wives” dealio. It always reveals so much about who qualifies as real humans and who’s ‘other.’ And the “womenfolk” who weren’t (officially) enslaved themselves, being legally disallowed (by men) to own property, weren’t actually capable of enslaving anybody if they wanted to.
That’s as far as I could get.
wiggles said
eh – the ‘elite and their womenfolk’ quote was taken from that antimisandry page.
Seriously. That’s a stunning piece of dipshittery right there.
Richie said
It’s like that MRA guy who was whining about wanting “women’s rights, but not at the expense of human rights”. Because women aren’t human.
Quercki said
Like.
RachelB said
Here from Shakesville to say this is brills, sir. Thank you.
agouti-rex said
>I actually stole it from your livejournal in the first place.
In that case, I’m actually flatterd! XD
We had some similar problems with front page photographs back at our paper, thoug the best one was when there was some story about, I dunno, cattle farming or something and we didn’t have a photo, so we just cropped a picture of a cow into a mugshot and wrote the name as “cow.” I think someone actually got fired over that.
Margaret said
He’s full of shit, but his videos are just plain NOT INTERESTING. Maybe it’s ’cause I’m ADD, but I couldn’t sit through a long ass video in that format on an actually awesome topic. BREAK IT UP A LITTLE PLZ.
(And that’s why I could sit through your vid just fine
)
Richie said
Imagine if he had a paid account, they could be EVEN LONGER.
violent_rabbit said
Fantastic! Actually made me lol- Im so used to being blind with rage that this was nice!
On another note to- You have an interesting accent- is that melbournian or just articulate? I say that because Ive always articulated my words and had to fend off yobbos trying to guess where im from :/
Richie said
It’s Melbournian, but yeah, there’s still a lot STOP TALKING BRITISH YOU FAG.
attack_laurel said
Heh. Just perfect.
I do love your point at the end that according to this waste of oxygen, whatever women choose to do, we’re wrong. But then, that’s nothing new. *eye*roll* It’s very tired, this “we men go out and do everything for you!” argument, and it’s shown for the bullshit it is as soon as women say “okay, then, we’ll do it ourselves, and you don’t have to worry about it, right?”, whereupon the menz start screaming something about “bitches”. But, when you’ve always been on top of the heap, it’s pretty easy to see a loss of privilege as oppression.
attack_laurel said
Oh, and the whole taking the status of white middle class US women and implying that all women live like that, so what are the broads complaining for? Classy, that.
Richie said
Especially since he brings it up shortly after all his rambling about the holocaust and slavery, as if no women were involved in those.
April said
The opening music is a particularly nice touch.
This guy’s basic argument, that oppression only comes in one flavor and one level of severity, is an “interesting” thesis. If somewhere in history, somebody has ever had it worse than a particular woman, she is apparently not allowed to complain about getting a raw deal from society. I’ve seen this trick before. Often this kind of argument seems to be deployed in a defensive “hey white people have suffered too, you know” kind of manner, but here it’s being employed offensively. (Did you see that? I’m fucking clever!)
Is this sort of the Entitled White Guy version of the Oppression Olympics? “Hey, we didn’t screw you over as badly as we did these other folks–and I’m going to presume you’re white when I say this–so quit your crying!”
Richie said
Oh, it gets worse; he’s petitioning to have “Titanic Day” officially recognised as a day for the world to come together and feel really, really sorry for men.
agouti-rex said
“We hereby proclaim the 15th of April to be Titanic Day. It is a day of reflection and contemplation for men who reject the tenets of chivalry, feminism and all other forms of male indentured servitude.”
The way that’s worded seems to imply that it’s a day not to honor Titanic victims or even the men who died on the Titanic in general but rather specifically men who made a point of trampling over women as they shoved their way into lifeboats.
franzferdinand2 said
That only makes sense. I mean, think of all the things we’ve done for women that deserve recognition. For starters, we didn’t round them up and systematically kill them. I think that deserves a cookie. Or, if you’re whats-his-name from The Nice Guy, you really should have a day celebrating all the not-rape you do.
wiggles said
I can’t even try to google stats on who exactly died in the Titanic without a lot of MRA bullshit.
Franzferdinand2 – “I mean, think of all the things we’ve done for women that deserve recognition. For starters, we didn’t round them up and systematically kill them.”
There were the witch hunts.
franzferdinand2 said
Oh, I agree. Plus, he also talks about the Holocaust and slavery like it didn’t happen to women, too.
C1everish said
I’m here from Shakeseville, and I have to say — that was amaze-balls. I have (THANKFULLY) led a very, very sheltered existence and have never even contemplated the existence of “men’s rights” websites, but reading your takedown of them was a little bit like being surprised by a bear, and then having some dude name Richie come out of nowhere and shoot it. Like, there are still bears around, but at least I feel a little safer knowing that you’re around, too.
… or something. I’ve been playing a lot of “Red Dead Redemption” lately, my metaphors are a little out of whack. Basically: you rock.
Richie said
It’s more like fish in a barrel than a bear, but thank you
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