#ListeningToMenFace

So, the delightful twitter tag “#ListeningToMenFace” began here, when Mallory Orberg asked for pictures of her followers’ “listening to men face”.What followed was varying degrees of sarcasm, disinterest and general disrespect.

One of these people, Anne Theriault, loved this so much that she asked for it to be a trending tag, which seems to have worked. Thus, the latest immature twitter crusade against “the evil menz” has begun.

-Mod Maya

There are a lot of problems with this tag. It’s ridiculous, for a start. Men are as worthy of attention and listening to as any woman. Everyone deserves a chance to be listened to, and then you can criticize what they actually say rather than dismissing it based on gender.

This type of attitude is disgusting.

It’s clear that this group enjoys the hostility it creates. There is no attempt at reasonable disscussion or to convey any other point than that men are apparently not worth listening too. The entire concept reeks of self attributed superiority and with comments like the above they try to dissuade any logical or reasonable debate about their childish viewpoint.

This is just another sad attempt to “fight the patriarchy” that is quickly devolving into another echo chamber of hatred towards men.

Much like that.

This was posted about an hour after the first comment. This is how quickly these groups can decend into outright disturbing territory. Of course if the comment was talking about any group other than men, there’d practically be a crusade.

This type of hate is unnacceptable, what kind of group can justify his kind of comment? This is group of hatespeech, nothing more, nothing less.

-Mod Kristoph

Oh goodie, yet another men hating hashtag. Okay, people, bull crap like this needs to stop. What will this accomplish? Honestly, do the people who do this actually stop and think what this will do? Congratulations, you’re losing support! All because you wanted to make people feel bad about themselves! Oh, and more people are hating feminists! Because whether they’re involved or not, you realize they’re going to be the scapegoats right? AND you’re making more males self-conscious!

»but men make us self-conscious :(

Congrats, you’re now as bad as the people you hate so much! In fact, you’re worse! Because you know how it feels, yet you still hurt other people in the same way.

That’s another point for misandrists! GG guys.

» but misandrists don’t ex-

Shut the fuck up. You’re proving they do right now.

The saddest part of the #ListeningToMenFace campaign is the type of community it takes for that to develop in. Healthy, functioning adults don’t congregate around campaigns over how little they care about what the other sex says.



-Mod Ema

The women involved in this are emotionally stunted, but they’ve got an occasional male alongside them. I couldn’t figure why men would defend something specifically geared for ignoring what they have to say, but I realized that’s his community. That’s normal. Man bad, hurt girl. They’ll have trouble maintaining any meaningful friendships or relationships with men.

Does any of this hurt men? Right now, no. Adults don’t take them seriously. Some of these people are going to have children. When they raise an entitled or self-loathing generation, we’ll have a problem.

Last year, I spent some time with a classmate of mine who was stranded at our college until midnight. We watched some TV on my laptop, he

showed me NationStates (from what I could tell, his country was a mix between Russia and North Korea after they took over the earth and became good friends). He was just fun to talk with.

He confided that his mom and girlfriend usually don’t let him hang out with other guys, and he usually doesn’t behave like this. He wasn’t joking, and actually started avoiding me for the rest of the year.

Raising your child to believe they’re evil is child abuse. These communities don’t discuss, they don’t evaluate their opinions, they just dehumanize men and ostracize dissenters.

The harm they cause takes years to manifest itself. This isn’t just crazy text on a screen, there are people behind the ideas.

-Mod Pearl

This is quickly becoming a popular hashtag. I honestly hope it doesn’t end up trending, but seeing how things have been in the past, I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m getting real tired of this crap.

-Ace Attorneys for Social Justice