When the Feminists came for the Rapists,
I remained silent;
I was not a Rapist.
When they locked up the stalkers,
I remained silent;
I was not a stalker.
When they came for the Players,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Player.
When they came for the men who they got bored of,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a some one they were bored of yet.
When they came for me, the nice guy,
there was no one left to speak out.
Came from this whiny "nice guy"
He's such a nice guy he just took a poem about the holocaust and turned it all into some whine about the poor plight of Nice Guys(tm) e_e (his tumblr thing also calls us "femiNAZI"s a lot (his caps, not mine) >_<;;
Charming.
I think EVERY guy should be offended that he thinks being a rapist and a nice guy are just two ends of a spectrum >:| WTF
And you do know that ppl being against RAPE is b/c rape is BAD? Not b/c rapists are some poor beset upon ethnic group or something >:\ Rapists HARM OTHERS by being rapists. Jewish ppl, gypsies, etc... do NOT >:|
He makes it sound like we just target rapists for fun! And after we're done w/ them we'll move on -_-
Those POOR POOR OPPRESSED RAPISTS! >_>;;
And yeah apparently boring guys and nice guys are lumped in w/ stalkers and rapists in his mind o_O I think this says more about how he thinks than how feminists think e_e
I just want to roll my eyes forever e_e
Eugh. Especially since the strong implication of this poetic adaptation of his is that we have a moral imperative to stand up for rapists as if they were, indeed, unjustly persecuted - murdered! - innocents.
ReplyDelete"If I don't protect rapists, who will protect me?
Yeah, you're right. He seems to see being a 'nice guy' on a continuum with being a rapist, as groups of people who need to band righteously together. That's disturbing.
As an mra I have 2 thoughts
ReplyDeletethis will be the second worst poem written in MRA history (the first will come out later this year-by me!!!) and this guy is an idiot
He blends the demonization of men and male lifestyles with comparing everything to rape
I want to cry-and its not due to the beauty of the poem...
This guy is a typical gender dominionist, plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteThe quotes that give it away:
Man hasn’t had the ability to choose his woman for at least the last 150 years. The woman chooses the man. ALWAYS.
AND:
We aren’t talking about DOING anything but telling someone you think they are attractive.
In his world, you (women) are supposed to smile and accept his advances or give some "sweet" maybe later to any guy that wants to intrude on you. It doesn't matter if YOU (women) don't want to be bothered - for whatever reason; according to him, you don't have a choice in the matter.
Aesmael,
This guy equates 'nice guy' being on the same level as rapist because it becomes clear that he believes that most (Male-on-Female) rape isn't really sexual assault or criminal behavior committed by men, but is a cover for Women who are left unsatisfied by a sexual encounter. Similarly, in his mind, a "stalker" is simply a man who continuously calls a woman after getting her phone number - when she 'expressed' interest but has not called him like he wants her to. "Players" are simply guys like George Clooney and Hugh Hefner that he envies.
In his world, women have no say on how they interact with men, especially if that man (or men) express romantic or sexual interest. You have no right to reject that interest in the strongest of terms.
What a creep.
(Sorry for the long comment. I just have no patience for his type of behavior)
His failure at analogy is almost as on the level of his failure at life. Fortunately, the becoming a "harmless perv" line-- the underlying implication he may have been a harmful one at some point begs police investigation-- seems to indicate he's nearing the point of just giving up altogether, sparing hundreds of potential victims of his "nice guyness" months of inane recriminations and angry counter-logical tirades. He needs to be told, "Yes, by all means, please lock yourself away in some dank sweat-smelling grotto with dogeared copies of Maxim magazine and some underwear catalogs and spare the world your attempts at rhetoric, dude."
ReplyDeleteHoly fucking shit what!? D:
ReplyDeleteThat guy could save us all some time and have "I am a disgusting asshat who just might rape you." tattooed on his face.
Wow. That is unbelievably douchey.
ReplyDeleteIf Black Lantern Rings really existed I'd want one to fall into Martin Niemoller's grave so he'd come back to life and slap the shit out of this clown.
ReplyDeleteWhen we comes for the arseholes, he'll be on the list.
ReplyDeleteWhen "they" start rounding up rapists and murdering them without due process, when they put them in camps and starve them to death for months on end based on the accusation of a random stranger, then I won't remain silent.
ReplyDeleteWhen they give rapists a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers, and assume they are innocent until proven guilty, I profoundly fail to see the problem here.
Good job, Ami! Linked here from Alas, a Blog. :)
ReplyDeleteI posted on this:
ReplyDeletehttp://stars-and-garters.blogspot.com/2011/08/nice-guy-finishes-last-in-poetry.html
And so did Thom Wade (much more eloquently than me):
http://thomwade.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/hey-man-nice-guy-nice-shot/#comment-16992
I hope this delusional, misogynistic loser and every one like him dies miserable and alone.
ReplyDeleteHe is well on his way to achieving that, I'd say.