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ismnotwasm

(42,537 posts)
8. Oh those idiots
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 02:07 AM
Aug 2014

There's is significant buzzing in the blogosphere that the hashtag was started by MRA type men. It's getting far to much attention. It will go away. Besides, Dave Futrelle has the perfect cat campaign in response:


From that other blog of mine

So I did an interview about my Confused Cats Against Feminism blog with Catster.com, a site that devotes itself to collecting “helpful and hilarious information for the worldly but still infatuated Cat aficionado.” Alas, as a result of publishing this interview with me yesterday, they now seem to be collecting angry MRA commenters as well.

Here are some highlights of the, er, debate so far, which I’ve waded into myself, perhaps unwisely. (These are selections, with a bunch missing, though the comments that look obviously like they are responses to other comments, are.) Maeve Connor is the author of the post about me.






http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/08/01/the-catster-debates-or-i-inadvertently-bring-mras-to-an-innocent-cat-website/

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Oh those idiots ismnotwasm Aug 2014 #8
And yet, the RWers never seem to get..... AverageJoe90 Aug 2014 #9
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