SYABM comic 41 “Baiting SJWs with a grain of salt”

It’s brilliant, really.

A lot of feminists say “if MRAs really care about male abuse, why don’t they open shelters instead of attacking feminism?”

You don’t have to discuss how Western society sees a woman slapping a man as perfectly fine, but a man can’t hit a woman, even in self-defense.

You don’t have to talk about how a man can call the police on a female abuser, and they’ll probably arrest him, by policy. Clearly she was just defending herself.

You don’t have to discuss how >studies keep showing that a significant amount of abusers are women hurting men<, but society, government, and feminism still call it “violence against women”.

You don’t have to think about whether feminism has contributed to the problem. Whether things like the Duluth Model and VAWA and Predominant Aggressor policies are actually sexist against men.

In fact, you don’t even have to admit that we need more men’s shelters.

But, this sort of thing only works when you can say it without any actual MRAs seeing it. They might say they supported abuse victim Earl Silverman, who couldn’t keep the only men’s shelter in Canada open, >because he didn’t have enough money<. His suicide note blamed feminists.

And then, this hypothetical MRA says feminists often complain about the lack of women in certain academic fields, without actually going into those fields. They want more women in the government, even though many feminists have political power without being in office.

The MRA can ask how many feminists care about domestic abuse without working at a shelter. How many care about sexual assault without working at a rape crisis center. How many feminists say we need more female CEOs, without actually trying to become CEOs?

In reality, teaching people about a problem is activism, just as much as standing on a street corner passing out ‘save the whales’ fliers. If someone doesn’t choose the “best” solution to a problem, that doesn’t mean they don’t care about the problem.

And last time I checked, there is a men’s shelter in Toronto. The Canadian Association for Equality opened the Canadian Centre for Men and Families back in 2014. You may recognize CAFE from those talks at U Toronto. The ones feminists pulled fire alarms on, because they couldn’t let the ebil MRAs speak.

Funny how those feminists seem to have missed it when CAFE actually helped men.

* MRAs did try to raise funds for a shelter in his memory, but it turned out to be a scam. This occured several months before >the “White Hot Rage” article< quoted up there was published. It was written by David “Manboobz” Futrelle. Strangely enough, Futrelle >mentioned the fundraising months before<, but conveniently forgot about it when >he claimed MRAs don’t raise funds for men’s shelters<.

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PS: Don’t use saltwater to mix concrete; the salt corrodes rebar. I didn’t know that when I wrote this strip, but it’s a nice bit of symbolism.

PPS: Many feminists will claim “women” build shelters for women. Erin Pizzey said that the first women’s shelter in the UK was partially funded by rich men, who refused to support male abuse victims the same way. Not to mention the shedloads of taxpayer support shelters get.

It’s funny how feminists complain when male politicians make decisions about abortion, but not when male politicians funnel millions of smackeroos toward helping women.

