$2,000 Tickets And All-Male Speakers: The ‘Make Women Great Again’ Convention Is Causing Outrage On The Internet
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“Make Women Great Again”—that’s the tagline of the upcoming “The 22 Convention” that will happen in May in Orlando, Florida. It’s causing some huge waves of disbelief and anger both online and in the media.
Some people are outraged at nearly every part of the convention. That it costs 2,000 dollars for a ticket (though there’s a 2-for-1 early bird deal going on now). That the speaker lineup is composed only of men. That the convention promises to show women how to be “ideal” and “ultimate wives.”
Meanwhile, the convention styles itself as an opponent of feminism and claims to promote “all forms of positive femininity.” It also states on its website that it will be “the mansplaining event of the century.”
“The 22 Convention” with the tagline “Make Women Great Again” is causing outrage
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It promises to show women how to be “ideal” and “ultimate wives”
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All the speakers will be men
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This year will be the first time the “Make Women Great Again” convention will be held. It’s a spin-off from Anthony Dream Johnson’s “The 21 Convention” that’s been running since 2007. “The 21 Convention,” according to the organizers of the event, is a “pro-father, pro-man, pro-masculinity” event that teaches men to be men in the 21st century. Among the speakers at the “Make Women Great Again” event are Mike Cernovich, as well as Stefan Molyneux.
This is what the convention claims on its website
Meanwhile, the main speaker of the event will be Johnson, who styles himself as “The 1st President of the Manosphere.”
The so-called manosphere is defined on Wikipedia as a loose collection of mostly web-based misogynist movements that are associated with the alt-right. Johnson lashed out at this description and told the media that “this is a standard lies and nonsense smear campaign to undermine the growing strength, size, and positive impact of the manosphere.”
Johnson received “thousands of comments attacking” him but expected all of them
Bored Panda reached out to Johnson to see his side of the story and to talk about the criticism that he’s received online. He started off by clarifying that ‘The 22 Convention’ is “an evolution” of ‘The 21 Convention’ which he founded when he was only 17 years old.
“There have been thousands of comments attacking me in public, including explicit threats of domestic terrorism and mass violence against the event, people hoping I die. We’ll be coordinating with law enforcement and licensed security regarding these threats to have a safe, successful, and amazing convention experience,” Johnson explained the size of the backlash that he received.
He said that he’s been on the receiving end of almost every negative comment imaginable: from being told that he “sucks with women” to being called “short” and other NSFW comments. Johnson stated that things are going exactly as he expected and that he’s been “laughing his ass off the past few days.”
“I enjoy building great things, making dreams come true, and triggering the [crap] out of people. I get to do that all at the same time with #22CON and #MWGA. I’ve also enjoyed posting photos and videos to upset the haters even more.”
“The mission of ‘The 22 Convention’ is exactly what the tagline states, to Make Women Great Again. We’re referring primarily to American and Western women here, it’s not as relevant in countries like Poland where gender relations are still positive, most women are still great, don’t hate men, embrace natural femininity and motherhood.”
Johnson believes that the US has to change for it to survive
He continued: “I’ll put this in very blunt terms: America has zero future with masculine women and feminine men. None. The consequence of not making women great again will be the total collapse of the American family this century and the resulting collapse of the USA.”
In Johnson’s opinion, his critics “know we’re right but can’t accept it yet, so they freak out and slowly realize we’re right later on.” He also encouraged his critics to be more vocal because it helps spread his message: “We appreciate your irrational hatred.”
Johnson also stated that he believes there is currently a “feminist war on motherhood” going on and called for it to end. He also expressed his belief that feminism “should be viewed and examined as a national security threat.”
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Arif-Fear, founder of the Voice of Salam which promotes interfaith humanity and human rights, has a different view on feminism
Arif-Fear told Bored Panda that the main things that make women lose respect for men are a misogynistic attitude and lack of respect for people around them. Bored Panda was also interested to hear Arif-Fear’s opinion about what character traits she’d like all men to have. This is what she had to say: “Egalitarian values, respect for women and all human beings, kindness, compassion, loyalty.”
The founder of the Voice of Salam had some advice on how parents should raise their sons. “Raise them with a sense of positive masculinity and egalitarian values. Positive masculinity, to teach them that it’s ok to cry, that they should not be scared of their feelings, that they should be proud of who they are and that being a man doesn’t mean controlling or feeling threatened by women.”
“Raise them as proud feminists with an ethos of positive masculinity. This leaves no room for misogyny or misandry either. Avoid rigid toxic gender stereotypes—let them develop as individuals into who they are, whilst nurturing a sense of strong respect for them and people of all sexes and genders.”
Arif-Fear continued: “I’d like to add that raising sons to be feminists (knowing what that really means) and to respect all women and people of all genders and sexualities, is not just about teaching young men to respect women, but also critically teaching and modeling a sense of positive masculinity. Men should not feel ‘ashamed’ to cry or ashamed to be male due to the suffering of women.”
“Rigid gender norms need to be addressed. Equality, compassion, and respect for everyone should be taught, including (and due to the state of society today) a spotlight on how to treat women, women’s rights, and what makes a good son, brother, father, husband, friend, colleague, neighbor.”
“Raising sons as feminists and with a sense of positive masculinity should and must go hand in hand, whilst also allowing for gender fluidity, individualism and ignoring rigid gender stereotypes,” Arif-Fear explained her position.
Some women couldn’t believe that an event like this could take place in modern society
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Here’s what some other people thought of the upcoming event
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These idiots don't seem to grasp that women will reach retirement age just as men will, and will need money to retire, just as men do. Who is going to pay for that, if they spend all their working years staying at home to crank out babies? Their husbands? Fat chance - this is EXACTLY the kind of man who trades his wife in for a younger model as soon as she hits menopause.
And, considering the fact that women outlive men, they’ll need that retirement money for a much longer time. Then there’s the rising number of centenarians in the population who, if they retire in their sixties, will spend 40% or more of their lives in retirement—-which may mean more healthy seniors working long past retirement age. That’s something I plan on doing for three reasons: 1) because mine is a family full of people who live close to 100 and past, 2) I’d be bored out of my skull for forty+ years, and most importantly 3) because I can’t fucking afford to retire at 67, unless I want to live on the street, so absolutely must work until I’m in my eighties to close that gap between retirement and death in order to be comfortable and secure when I finally can no longer work.
The expected lifespan of women are very close to mens in regions where birthcontrol isn't available. I'm guessing they are rooting for us to die in labour?
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Dang Kathy, that sounds bleak.
This makes me think of the philosophy behind "Gilead", in The Handmaid's Tale. Nip it in the bud. These men and their Gilead- like conventions need to be stopped. And if you see any "supportive" women there.... They are the worst. Treat them like you'd treat a domestic terrorist.
"They are the worst. Treat them like you'd treat a domestic terrorist." Exactly, for that is what they are indeed. I'd take my nice, sensitive 'Feminist" guy any day over one of these incel losers. Heck we even have a Feminist male as our Prime Minister here in Canada, and he proudly declares that he is one and makes no apologies for it.
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So, we should also outlaw Islam ?
Exactly @ Sea...sad bunch of fat, little peckered white guys, gathering for their 'real men only' circle jerk. Disgusting.
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Exactly @ Sea...sad bunch of fat, little peckered white guys, gathering for their 'real men only' circle jerk. Disgusting.
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I don't think Seabeast will be attending. Sigh. The Beast will be missed.
Why are you so fucking stupid?
This is a conference made by incels for incels. Misogyny at its finest. Here's a tip: if you want a wife, treat her like an equal. Not that hard.
His goal is to be in the same room at the same time with a willing and naked lady.
That’s a much better use of $2000 for the whole bunch of them. Not only will the incels finally get laid, the women will make some good wages; an easy two grand for a mere three minutes’ work.
Beggars can't be choosers
with no debt or tattoos haha
After he gives this convention, that will never happen.
"a willing and naked HUMAN lady"
When I first read your post, what I saw was "conference made by imbeciles for imbeciles". I think my subconscious got it down more accurately than you did.
Incel is short for "involuntary celibate"
No, it's organised by incels for WOMEN to attend. Not sure how women get $2000 without their man handing it over to them? Which would be irresponsible, as their widdle brains can't handle numbers?
Yes treat her as an equal and with unabiding respect................
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Men and women are equal, until it's alimony time.
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Incels? You are assuming these men can't get laid? Why is it that every time a SJW doesn't like someone's opinion they automatically decree that person can't get laid? It's the weirdest A to B.
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God bless the fit mom with traditional values. Such wonders do exist!
My poor grandma had 14 kids (Great Depression era) and was worn down into an early grave. I'm happy with my 2 kids, thank you very much.
Your grandmother’s situation was exactly what got Margaret Sanger started on her mission to provide women with birth control. As a visiting nurse, she accompanied doctors to women giving birth. The story goes that one woman, who had given difficult birth to yet another baby she and her husband could not afford, begged the doctor for some way to prevent pregnancy. Sanger was horrified to hear the doctor tell the woman “Well, just tell Jakie to start sleeping on the roof”, like her situation was something to crack a joke about. And that’s what these incels want us to slide backwards into, just because they can’t get a date—-and it never crosses their minds that the reason might have way more to do with their own attitudes than the rest of society’s.
@John Smith, she would probably get further with them than you would with any woman.
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In her letter she wrote "We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” In her autobiography she proudly recounts her address to the women of the Democratic Party's Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, N.J., in 1926. She is a is a racist who has done more to destroy the black race than any other single person to stop the “rising tide of color” Sanger’s efforts led to the ABCL establishing its Negro Project. You can look that up yourself (though you won't) but you go on with your bad, woke, progressive self. Keep telling yourself that it's the conservatives who value EVERY life who are the racists.
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Are you seriously white washing history? Why are you celebrating a woman who fully supported eugenics. You know, like Adolf Hitler? Sanger’s eugenics creed is clearly stated in her speech “My Way to Peace” (1932). The centerpiece of the program is vigorous state use of compulsory sterilization and segregation. The first class of persons targeted for sterilization is made up of people with mental or physical disability. “The first step would be to control the intake and output on morons, mental defectives, epileptics.” A much larger class of undesirables would be forced to choose either sterilization or placement in state work camps.Sanger’s eugenics project carried its own racial preoccupation. In a letter of Dec. 10, 1939, to Clarence Gamble she explains the nature of her organization’s outreach to the black community: (cont'd)
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Kathy I recommend that you mission in Africa this year. They're the ones that really need your input. Let us know how that goes.
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Well shit. I guess you need to thank your grandmother for the 2 kids you have now. Surely you came from one of her 14 kids she had right?
She can't. Bearing 14 children meant an early death for her grandmother (and likely left the younger children motherless, too). Having had a child die, and nearly dying myself, as the result of medically attended childbirth in 2003, I can attest that it's not simply a matter of "unlimited babies." Pregnancy and birth are hard on womens' bodies. I am deeply grateful for my healthy son, now 18, and daughter, 15. And I will spend every moment for the rest of my life grieving their brother, who lived 12 days.
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Hey Hiker, which one of those 14 kids ended up producing you?
These idiots don't seem to grasp that women will reach retirement age just as men will, and will need money to retire, just as men do. Who is going to pay for that, if they spend all their working years staying at home to crank out babies? Their husbands? Fat chance - this is EXACTLY the kind of man who trades his wife in for a younger model as soon as she hits menopause.
And, considering the fact that women outlive men, they’ll need that retirement money for a much longer time. Then there’s the rising number of centenarians in the population who, if they retire in their sixties, will spend 40% or more of their lives in retirement—-which may mean more healthy seniors working long past retirement age. That’s something I plan on doing for three reasons: 1) because mine is a family full of people who live close to 100 and past, 2) I’d be bored out of my skull for forty+ years, and most importantly 3) because I can’t fucking afford to retire at 67, unless I want to live on the street, so absolutely must work until I’m in my eighties to close that gap between retirement and death in order to be comfortable and secure when I finally can no longer work.
The expected lifespan of women are very close to mens in regions where birthcontrol isn't available. I'm guessing they are rooting for us to die in labour?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Dang Kathy, that sounds bleak.
This makes me think of the philosophy behind "Gilead", in The Handmaid's Tale. Nip it in the bud. These men and their Gilead- like conventions need to be stopped. And if you see any "supportive" women there.... They are the worst. Treat them like you'd treat a domestic terrorist.
"They are the worst. Treat them like you'd treat a domestic terrorist." Exactly, for that is what they are indeed. I'd take my nice, sensitive 'Feminist" guy any day over one of these incel losers. Heck we even have a Feminist male as our Prime Minister here in Canada, and he proudly declares that he is one and makes no apologies for it.
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So, we should also outlaw Islam ?
Exactly @ Sea...sad bunch of fat, little peckered white guys, gathering for their 'real men only' circle jerk. Disgusting.
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Exactly @ Sea...sad bunch of fat, little peckered white guys, gathering for their 'real men only' circle jerk. Disgusting.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I don't think Seabeast will be attending. Sigh. The Beast will be missed.
Why are you so fucking stupid?
This is a conference made by incels for incels. Misogyny at its finest. Here's a tip: if you want a wife, treat her like an equal. Not that hard.
His goal is to be in the same room at the same time with a willing and naked lady.
That’s a much better use of $2000 for the whole bunch of them. Not only will the incels finally get laid, the women will make some good wages; an easy two grand for a mere three minutes’ work.
Beggars can't be choosers
with no debt or tattoos haha
After he gives this convention, that will never happen.
"a willing and naked HUMAN lady"
When I first read your post, what I saw was "conference made by imbeciles for imbeciles". I think my subconscious got it down more accurately than you did.
Incel is short for "involuntary celibate"
No, it's organised by incels for WOMEN to attend. Not sure how women get $2000 without their man handing it over to them? Which would be irresponsible, as their widdle brains can't handle numbers?
Yes treat her as an equal and with unabiding respect................
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Men and women are equal, until it's alimony time.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Incels? You are assuming these men can't get laid? Why is it that every time a SJW doesn't like someone's opinion they automatically decree that person can't get laid? It's the weirdest A to B.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
God bless the fit mom with traditional values. Such wonders do exist!
My poor grandma had 14 kids (Great Depression era) and was worn down into an early grave. I'm happy with my 2 kids, thank you very much.
Your grandmother’s situation was exactly what got Margaret Sanger started on her mission to provide women with birth control. As a visiting nurse, she accompanied doctors to women giving birth. The story goes that one woman, who had given difficult birth to yet another baby she and her husband could not afford, begged the doctor for some way to prevent pregnancy. Sanger was horrified to hear the doctor tell the woman “Well, just tell Jakie to start sleeping on the roof”, like her situation was something to crack a joke about. And that’s what these incels want us to slide backwards into, just because they can’t get a date—-and it never crosses their minds that the reason might have way more to do with their own attitudes than the rest of society’s.
@John Smith, she would probably get further with them than you would with any woman.
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In her letter she wrote "We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” In her autobiography she proudly recounts her address to the women of the Democratic Party's Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, N.J., in 1926. She is a is a racist who has done more to destroy the black race than any other single person to stop the “rising tide of color” Sanger’s efforts led to the ABCL establishing its Negro Project. You can look that up yourself (though you won't) but you go on with your bad, woke, progressive self. Keep telling yourself that it's the conservatives who value EVERY life who are the racists.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Are you seriously white washing history? Why are you celebrating a woman who fully supported eugenics. You know, like Adolf Hitler? Sanger’s eugenics creed is clearly stated in her speech “My Way to Peace” (1932). The centerpiece of the program is vigorous state use of compulsory sterilization and segregation. The first class of persons targeted for sterilization is made up of people with mental or physical disability. “The first step would be to control the intake and output on morons, mental defectives, epileptics.” A much larger class of undesirables would be forced to choose either sterilization or placement in state work camps.Sanger’s eugenics project carried its own racial preoccupation. In a letter of Dec. 10, 1939, to Clarence Gamble she explains the nature of her organization’s outreach to the black community: (cont'd)
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Kathy I recommend that you mission in Africa this year. They're the ones that really need your input. Let us know how that goes.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Well shit. I guess you need to thank your grandmother for the 2 kids you have now. Surely you came from one of her 14 kids she had right?
She can't. Bearing 14 children meant an early death for her grandmother (and likely left the younger children motherless, too). Having had a child die, and nearly dying myself, as the result of medically attended childbirth in 2003, I can attest that it's not simply a matter of "unlimited babies." Pregnancy and birth are hard on womens' bodies. I am deeply grateful for my healthy son, now 18, and daughter, 15. And I will spend every moment for the rest of my life grieving their brother, who lived 12 days.
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Hey Hiker, which one of those 14 kids ended up producing you?