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Their events may be held in secrecy due to the protests and general shaming they incur from people everywhere, but men’s rights activists are still loud and hilariously proud. As such, pop culture cannot resist getting in on the fun of mocking the MRA movement, even if the reality of the so-called leaders is somehow funnier than the best jokes. Still, one of Leslie Knope’s greatest moments was telling crybaby protesters that what they stand for isn’t a real thing, and now Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are twisting the knife by giving the men’s rights movement its very own anthem in this first look at season seven of Portlandia.
Naturally, “What About Men?” is a righteous cock rock bro anthem that totally sounds like it could be the No. 1 hit on Z99’s Rock-N-Ruckus Afternoon Drivetime Jamboree. And while the owners of the In Other Words bookstore are done with Portlandia, fans should be pleased with the humor in “What About Men?” as it’s all we have to hold us over until season seven of the Peabody Award-winning IFC series arrives on January 5. As for the MRA crowd, that’s plenty of time to crawl inside your safe spaces and tell your sons about a time when a white man was president while humming this awesome tune.
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Great article! My favourite part was where you lied and called Roosh V a leader of the movement, despite him not even being an MRA.
Other than that, keep up the good work!
I feel like people keep leaving that tidbit in so guys like you can come out and say, “hey wait”. Then we go, “I wonder what type of person needs to point that out.”
In reply to CoDy Robison 0.07.2016 @ 12:07 AM: maybe the type of person who values the truth? I think every group should be open to criticism or parody, but when that criticism is based on lies, you have to wonder why a straw man was created and attacked rather than the real thing.
Surely if MRAs are deserving of mockery and have no worthy issues then who they actually are, what they say, and do can be criticized. If, in order to present MRAs as extremists with no real points non-MRAs have to be dishonestly pointed to as supposed examples of MRA leaders, and MRA positions have to be misrepresented in order for them to seem crazy and unreasonable, then what case is there really against actual MRAs? (And if there is such a case to be made, then why isn’t that being made honestly?)
“As for the MRA crowd, that’s plenty of time to crawl inside your safe spaces and tell your sons about a time when a white man was president while humming this awesome tune.”
Why is it implied that MRAs are racists/white supremacists? Where’s the evidence for this? None? It’s just a baseless smear?
Also, I can see why the image of a group retreating into a “safe space” might be amusing, but MRAs didn’t create and don’t support the idea of “safe spaces” and so are not the proper targets of such mockery. (I suspect the author of this article would find herself in hot water if she directed her mockery at actual proponents of safe spaces.)
Oops, turns out Ashley is a he, not a she. My bad.
MRAs are so against safe spaces that they created a movement when women and people of color threatened theirs