Oh, dear gods, the stupid is going to burn my retinas.

Once again we turn to the comedy websites to educate us. Turns out, we had economies before women had rights and they still managed to implode sometimes. http://www.cracked.com/article_18397_5-economic-collapses-more-ridiculous-than-this-one.html

He’s not talking about economies, he’s talking about ekonomies. Big difference, you know. If he were talking about economies, some people might actually get the misguided idea that he knows anything about the subject matter. How kind of him to make sure we don’t waste our time giving him the benefit of the doubt.

I shit you not, I had to read that last bit of the OP twice, due to it being so intensely stupid my eyes refused to focus on it.

Al Jazeera – The Men Who Crashed the World.

Spearhead KNOWS that men are primarily responsible for our current economic shitscape, and are scrambling to find some she-goats to scape! Sad and Pathetic, but what else do you expect from spearhead scumsuckers?

I have a rationalization guinea pig.

Thus my explanation for everything–from my temerity to have a career to my unreasonable demands to not be assaulted–is VRRRT VRRRT CARROTS? VRRREEERT.

“femaleist suberversion”

I LIKE it!

I’d buy it!

It’s both. If women claim that it’s impossible to do both that’s just a sign that they aren’t trying hard enough.

Jill – The closest thing to a consistent stance I can figure out is that most MRAs are willing to support women so long as they are obedient housewives. It’s mostly the idea of paying their money and not getting a guarantee of permanent full ownership in return that makes them angry.

It’s times like this I wish I didn’t have the word “Spear” in my chosen Internet nym.

…inb4 DKM starts talking about how sexy hamsters are? XD

Arielle Shander: Truly a question for the ages.

I think “ekonomics” is like “Amerika,” in that you’re expressing disapproval by using a K instead of a C, because that’s supposedly a more “Russian” spelling, which means that ekonomics is commie economics.

I’m not even joking, I think that’s what he’s getting at.

But why the fuck is he spelling “economics” “ekonomics”? Who is he mocking by changing the “c” to the “k”? Where is the subversion here? I really don’t fuckin get it.

It seems like it comes from replacing the c in “America” with a k, making “Amerika” but with a different and negative view of the United States than the former might imply. My impression is that it comes from lefty anarchist types, but of course is not limited to them. The point is reflecting a deeply cynical view of the affected words–Amerika is like totally fascist man, it’s run by ekonomists and rethuglokrats and Bancers. Wikipedia seems to agree with this view.

Interestingly, there is a website called amerika.org run by a “crunchy conservative.” It defines “Amerika” as “a type of civilization, not a place” and its alternative to Amerika is “Paleoconservatism: traditional values, monarchism, caste and leadership by culture.” Because that worked out so well for Latin America under Spain, amirite?

Thanks Meowicus, I’ve learned something new today :)
(also learned: if there’s more than one possibility for why MRA does something, it’ll be the stupidest/meanest one.)

hellkell, screws loose are definitely part of it.

…Why am I trying to apply logic and two seconds of thought to this?

Hope springs eternal?

Holy hand-held remotes! Ozymandias42 is making an album and ithiliana is buying it. Why with all this producing and consuming we just might have the beginnings of an economy ( Pardon, i mean ekconomy). Please, think of the poor golden egg layers of male productivity, please I implore you.

“Wait, so the wimmenz are supposed to sit at home and take care of the baybeez, but women aren’t supposed to expect a man to support them? Is this where NWO’s women sitting in the street and crying thing comes into play?”

I’m still trying to reconcile the MRA insistance that their teenaged daughters be totally ‘pure’ with their insistance that men of all ages should be allowed to have sex with any teenager girl they chose.

I know it’s useless to ask (because according to Spearheaders it probably doesn’t exist), but what about women inspired productivity and entrepreneurship? I’m guessing it’s to blame for the current economic crisis, but that’s one of the few part of this rant I can make sense of (as in the string of words actually resembles a sentence), that we’ve apparently cannabilised (how?) any male productivity (sorry, produktivity). Also, way too many k’s.

Oh, and my rationalization animal is that creepy wolf from Neverending Story…he doesn’t do a very good job.

“I know it’s useless to ask (because according to Spearheaders it probably doesn’t exist), but what about women inspired productivity and entrepreneurship?”

Ok, I’ll bite. What about the women-inspired productivity and entrepreneurship? For every one Oprah you can name off the top of your head, I can give you a Jobs, Gates, Paul Allan, Lucas, Sergei Brin, etc, etc. These men have helped create new technologies and thus, themselves drive forward new ways to create wealth. Plus there’s the hundreds of thousands of genius level men who work under them and make their ideas real.

Women entrepreneurs, on the other hand, make their buck primarily by selling unnecessary, non-technological consumer goods to people, primarily women. Oprah promotes books and sells modern snake oil and feel-goods, and Martha Stuart pushes pillow casings and $100 fruit baskets and other crap nobody needs. Why don’t you give me an example of a female entrepreneur who has created innovation, and thus real wealth.

“Spearhead KNOWS that men are primarily responsible for our current economic shitscape, and are scrambling to find some she-goats to scape! Sad and Pathetic, but what else do you expect from spearhead scumsuckers?”

Get bent. The economic crisis in 2008 wasn’t some 1980’s junk bond market crash created exclusively by male traders. It was and is primarily a housing bubble crisis and a consumer credit bubble crisis. And who’s dreamed of having Barbie’s Toy Mansion ever since they were little girls? The crisis coincided with an explosion of female home ownership and female consumer debt. Corrupt men on Wall Street had their hands in repackaging crap mortgages as AAA bonds. But again, before you blame men for everything, why don’t you visit your local bank branch down the street? Who staffs the branch, and thus, who sold all these subprime mortgages to people? Make sure you also blame the hundreds of thousands of branch level women bankers who lied to people’s faces about their mortgages.

I have a rationalization shrimp.

They just wish their minds ran as fast as a hamster.

“And who’s dreamed of having Barbie’s Toy Mansion ever since they were little girls?”

Whose dreams fueled the rise of the exurbs and the supremacy of the SUV? Whose view of the world is more appreciably to be seen in the cheap developments which blanket this country from coast to coast?

You guys are wasting your breath when you try to make me believe that walls-and-a-roof are paltry things forced by venal females on your unwilling and all-too-mighty spirits. You yourselves have a taste for shoddily built big houses, buyable on easy terms. You’re not stupid enough not to know that the woman who sold you the cheap, big house (in cases in which it was a woman who sold you the big cheap house) wasn’t simply the last person in the pipeline. She was working for somebody who was working for somebody who was working for somebody (and so are you, most of the time).

If you don’t want to take the matter up with those who possess real decision-making power, don’t blame your neighborhood brokers: look at yourselves, because, though it’s always the seller’s job to sell, a buyer retains the option not to buy.

“OK, I’ll bite.”

You sure will.

For every one Oprah you can name off the top of your head, I can give you a Jobs, Gates, Paul Allan, Lucas, Sergei Brin, etc, etc.

It’s almost as if you live in a society wherein men are privileged and have an easier time rising to the top.

These men have helped create new technologies and thus, themselves drive forward new ways to create wealth

But when women do it, it doesn’t count? Jobs and Gates would be nowhere without Hopper, who would herself be nowhere without Lovelace and Babbage.

Women entrepreneurs, on the other hand, make their buck primarily by selling unnecessary, non-technological consumer goods to people, primarily women

Citation needed.

Oprah promotes books

The horror.

and sells modern snake oil and feel-goods,

This is true. And a number of the oil salesfolks? Men. I don’t know what the gender split of alt med is, but there’s a lot of substantial men in it (as well as women, I’m aware).

and Martha Stuart pushes pillow casings and $100 fruit baskets and other crap nobody needs

I like how you say this after Steve Jobs. Tell me again how much you need your iPhone and iPad, please.

Why don’t you give me an example of a female entrepreneur who has created innovation, and thus real wealth.

This is a completely idiotic view of economics, likely cribbed from Ayn Rand. Economic value isn’t only created by innovation, because new ideas aren’t the only things people need, and it’s certainly not the only thing they want. Industry and service are probably even bigger components.

Plus there’s the hundreds of thousands of genius level men who work under them

The percentage of women in STEM is low, but it’s by no means zero, dimwit.

Get bent. The economic crisis in 2008 wasn’t some 1980′s junk bond market crash created exclusively by male traders. It was and is primarily a housing bubble crisis and a consumer credit bubble crisis.

Uh, yes it was. There are always poor people who want to buy houses they can’t afford (Protip, it’s not just women). There used to be regulations that forced you to disclose who you were selling to, etc.

But again, before you blame men for everything, why don’t you visit your local bank branch down the street? Who staffs the branch, and thus, who sold all these subprime mortgages to people? Make sure you also blame the hundreds of thousands of branch level women bankers who lied to people’s faces about their mortgages.

Are all jobs uniform in the sex of who’s in them, in the parallel universe you inhabit? This is like, the third or fourth time you’ve done this.

Also, ‘hundreds of thousands of branch level bankers’? 1 in 100, at most? You sure, bro? I guess it’s possible, but it don’t seem likely…

“Get bent. The economic crisis in 2008 wasn’t some 1980′s junk bond market crash created exclusively by male traders. It was and is primarily a housing bubble crisis and a consumer credit bubble crisis. And who’s dreamed of having Barbie’s Toy Mansion ever since they were little girls? The crisis coincided with an explosion of female home ownership and female consumer debt.”

And who started the deadly stereotypes of Barbie’s Toy Mansions for girls, again? Granted, Barbies were made a woman who based them off of their family, but the entire line of Barbies is, in fact, based on patriarchial notions.

But that’s besides the point. The House Bubble came and went. The banks are in trouble and are being protested to boot. Really, it’s funny how you can blame half the world for the economy without even thinking that maybe, just maybe, the way things were run were a little fucked up.

But what do I know? I’m just a mangina looking for facts, not scapegoats. :)

…Barbies were made a woman…

Wasn’t that the plot of Weird Science?

It’s not one of John Hughes’ better films.

Women were some of the first people to brew beer millennia ago.

A woman first brought the concept of vaccination to Europe.

A woman grew eBay into the business it is today.

A woman helped develop bacterial agar, which is still in use today in nearly every facet of medical research.

A woman wrote the first novel in the world, and another woman wrote what is (arguably) the first science fiction novel.

A woman was one of those behind-the-scenes geniuses of IBM.

A woman invented the first treatment for leukemia and the first immuno-suppressive drug, as well as treatments for gout, malaria, and herpes.

A woman recently invented lenses used to prevent age-related macular degeneration, the major cause of blindness in developed countries.

@David Futrelle
“Speaking of spinning wheels: NWO, do you spin some sort of wheel-of-fortune type wheel that tells you which off-topic rant to paste into the comments at any given moment? Because I’m pretty sure we weren’t talking about Title IX.”

In the post above I used Title IX as a costly State agency which has an economic impact. Hows that? Better? And the point is…..What’s the point of providing citations if the citations are denied and/or ignored? By the by, did you read the link I provided, and if so, whaddya think of Big Daddy’s justice?

NWO, I want to know if you read the link you provided.