OK, so the title is a bit sensational, and a bit misleading. Well, sort of misleading. Feministing.com is the time tested industry standard for privileged white girls and a few of their tokens on a mission to help women understand that their personal shortcomings are not their own fault, but the results of a mythical patriarchy that prevents them from working on crab boats when they are not flunking out of STEM courses.
With well over 5,000 sites linking in, and over 8 years online, the site is the spawn of ideologue Jessica Valenti. She put it online as “a way to get through the mommy filter,” and promote feminism online. I suppose Valenti feels that something about motherhood filters out the feminist message. And, well, she certainly is a lot quieter about sexual politics after having squirted one out of her own.
But that is OK, there is a new message to help fill the void.
For the first time ever, feministing is now lagging behind a men’s rights website in the three-month worldwide Alexa Rankings. And that men’s rights website just happens to be the one you are reading. We have not actually “left them in the dust,” but if I were them I would be reaching for my goggles anyway. Whether they like the view or not, they are looking at our asses right now.
The fact that it happened just as Barak Obama was being sworn in to a second term is purely coincidental, but highly enjoyable on a personal level. That is not a partisan stab, though I know it could be interpreted as such. Managing Editor Dean Esmay was concerned that the coincidence could be politicized, so sent me the following message:
“Please be nuanced, measured, inclusive, forgiving, subtle and as “big tent” and gentle as possible …while letting the privileged white girls, their little tokens, and their male lapdogs know that they no longer own the narrative.”
Thank you Dean, for the wisdom of your words.
Now, of course none of this means that our battle has done anything but begin. There is much more going on in the world than can be measured in terms of site metrics. And we have no guarantee of keeping ahead at all times.
But even in our caution we will not underplay the significance of what has happened. Dean Esmay is right. The days of feminist hegemony over the discourse of sexual politics are coming to a long awaited end. We are ending it.
We are putting feministing, and ultimately feminism, in the rear view.
Goodmenproject.com, with all their fluff and mainstream feminist pablum, and after all the money dumped into making them a presence, is now in our sights. With something as simple as the truth, emanating from articulate and impassioned voices, we will eventually not only overtake them in audience, we will reveal to the world the corruption and fakery in their message.
If we can catch them, and we certainly can, we can also catch Jezebel.
We promised you at the start of the New Year that this was going to be a remarkable one for the MRM. We may have light years to go, but we are well on our way to making that a reality.
