# Anti-Feminism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390 "2015-07-17T06:05:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/546 "2015-07-26T00:35:27Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> In one of his many recent threads on feminism (isn’t everyone glad he has a new hobby?) he posted a link to a “debate” between four feminists on the idea (paraphrased) “Are men obsolete?”

So when he said he was responding to a link that someone else posted in this thread, he was thinking of a link that _he_ had posted in a _different_ thread?

Wow. That’s…really something.

I hadn’t read the thread that **jsgoddess** is referring to, but I just did a search and it looks like this is it: [Black men as “canaries in the coal mine”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=761007).

While this isn’t obvious from the thread title, much of the OP is about the “Be it resolved: Men are obsolete” debate and a video Karen Straughan made in response. So this wasn’t something **LinusK** mentioned in passing, it was the subject of a thread that he started less than a month ago. Skimming that thread now, it looks like everyone who replied to **LinusK** ’s question about whether men are obsolete either said no or that the question didn’t even make sense to them. But in his mind this somehow transformed into someone in _this_ thread arguing that men _are_ obsolete.

This exchange from the other thread also seems to have been the basis for his “if all men suddenly disappeared” post in this thread:

> [@Black men as "canaries in the coal mine"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-men-as-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/723930/11):
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> > [@](#):
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> > Are men obsolete? Why or why not?
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> No, because someone has to kill the big bugs.

> [@Black men as "canaries in the coal mine"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-men-as-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/723930/24):
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> Well, and also someone also has to do construction, logging, drilling, fishing, and other back-breaking, dangerous jobs.

The big difference is that **Shodan** was obviously making a joke when he said that women needed men to kill bugs for them, while in this thread **LinusK** ’s remark about women freaking out about roaches was apparently intended to be taken seriously.

I knew that **LinusK** had become a one-trick pony on the subject of the evils of feminism, but this is getting into _Twilight Zone_ territory. He just keeps repeating the same things over and over again, regardless of what other people are actually saying and seemingly without remembering that this has happened before.

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