Scented Candles Oppress Men: The Spearhead at its self-proclaimed best.
Woman oppressing men and destroying civilization with a SCENTED MOTHERFUCKING CANDLE!!
Men’s Rights Activists and manosphere misogynists love to complain that I “cherry pick” quotes in an attempt to make them look bad. Which makes it especially ironic that all too often when I call them out on some particular bit of bullshit, they more or less double down on that bullshit, reiterating and in many cases amplifying the terrible things they originally said.
Several days ago, I wrote about a Spearhead post from W.F. Price with the priceless title “After 25, Women Are Just Wasting Time.” It was appalling even by Spearhead standards. Price used the untimely death of a talented young writer named Marina Keegan as an opportunity to rehash the belief, widely held in the manosphere, that women over the age of 25 who haven’t managed to snag themselves a “good husband” are “just wasting time,” growing older and uglier and less appealing to men. (Evidently, women’s appeal to men is the only thing that really matters about them.)
Price’s article inspired numerous comments from Spearheaders that were even more grotesquely misogynistic and cruel than his own post; Price at least pretended to care about the dead girl, even though his post was a crass and opportunistic insult to her memory.
And it inspired one regular Man Boobz commenter, a 26-year-old woman, to wade into the muck that is the Spearhead’s comments section to point out that Price’s grand narrative of female decline after age 25 has no relation whatsoever to her own life story:
I’m 26 years old. 27 terrifyingly soon. I am nothing like the person I was when I graduated college.
After originally getting a film degree, I’ve just started nursing school.
I’m living on the other side of the country and loving the different culture here.
I’m dating a wonderful guy who mysteriously didn’t dump me on my 25th birthday.
I’m doing difficult, not always fun, but ultimately socially useful work, work I couldn’t imagine myself doing when I graduated college.Since I graduated college, I’ve read more books, worked on more movies, learned more skills, lifted more weight, traveled more places, marched in more protests, gotten published more times, saved more lives than I thought I ever would.
And I’m still only 26.
You think I’m going to stop protesting and writing and working the wild Saturday midnight shift in the ER before I’m 30? Before I’m 60?
Or do you think it doesn’t matter because I might not be as fuckable then?
Well then fuck you. I’m 26 and I got miles to go.
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(Oh, and I’m way better at sex now. Guys who thought I hit my “expiration date” just around the time I was first learning what a Kegel was, you are missing out.)
The Spearheaders responded, predictably enough, with downvotes and insults and a lot of mainsplainy comments suggesting that she’s regret it forever if she doesn’t get married ASAP and start popping out children.
The strangest comment of the bunch came from a Spearhead “Shieldmaiden” (that’s what they call female commenters on The Spearhead, for reals) by the name of Andie, who launched into a barely coherent tirade that somehow revolved around, er, SCENTED CANDLES!
Price, after seeing Andie’s rant mocked by the commenters here, decided to feature it today as the Spearhead “Comment of the Week.” So without further ado, here is what Price considers to be the Spearhead community at its best:
@26 year old woman
Let’s see how you feel when you’re 29 and the end of everything possible is right at your doorstep. Hell, lots of women are infertile at 26. Done. You won’t do everything. You won’t be a mother.
And if that doesn’t bother you, darlin’, you ain’t a woman.
And if your plans are to actually BE a mother (as in do the damn work), you are already in very deep water.
Your resume will never put his chubby little arms around you and tell you he loves you, like a child will. Your resume will never give you grandchildren, like your children might. Your resume will never share in all your joys, all your sorrows, all your triumphs, all your tragedies, like your husband will.
But you WILL be able to rape that resume of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS over your lifetime. Yay!
The fastest growing consumer product category: scented candles. SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES.
Yes, 26 year old woman, all your education and opportunity and rights have resulted in millions of children raised without fathers, the total destruction of the family, the rise of GIANT ASS government to give all those wymyns a place to work (doing utterly useless shit) and what was it for? What did we gain?
SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES!!
Nicely done, ladies. Really good job.
Fuck you, bitch. My daughters are coming for you. And millions of daughters just like mine. We see you, you superficial piece of trash. You have cost us our lives. For patchouli candles.
You will pay.
Go back and read @26 year old woman’s comment, then read Andie’s again. Quite a contrast, wouldn’t you say?
I should note that when Price first posted the quote, he evidently left out the last few paragraphs; perhaps even he realized they were a tad over the line as a response to a woman whose only real “crime” was telling the Spearheaders that her life was interesting and fulfilling to her, and that she wasn’t planning on having any babies in the foreseeable future. (And if they didn’t approve of her life, too fucking bad for them.)
In the comments to Price’s “Comment of the Week” post, HL offers this thought:
Every time something like this comes up, it becomes ever more apparent that the ignorance, hate mongering, bigotry and fallacies rests so much more heavily on the side of the feminists.
To paraphrase Rick James, lack of self-awareness is a hell of a drug.
Posted on June 2, 2012, in $MONEY$, antifeminism, antifeminst women, dozens of upvotes, evil women, FemRAs, hypocrisy, irony alert, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, reactionary bullshit, the spearhead, threats, your time will come. Bookmark the permalink. 383 Comments.
So the argument here is that … only women are employed in the scented-candle industry? Or that women are only employed in the scented-candle industry? Or that scented candles have anything to do with anything? Okay then.
“all your education and opportunity and rights”
Good to know the Shieldmaiden disapproves of her education, opportunity, and rights because babies.
Isn’t the “argument” that women are only employed in government sponsered jobs, because on the free market nobody wants to hire them, and these women then use their salary to buy scented candles.
Er… I THINK that’s what she’s trying to get across. It’s still…. batshit crazy.
Oh no! Her daughters are coming after me!
This thought leaves me strangely unaffected, and I doubt andie was going for laughs.
I wonder what it would take to convince these people that even at the advanced age of forty, I’m not particularly concerned about getting married (except to avoid the possibility perhaps)?
What is so terrible about having the occassional woman who does not want kids or marriage? And I highly doubt that many women who reach my age with out the wedding but wanted one are weeping into their pillows each night. Surely most women by this age have learned to handle disappointment more gracefully?
scented candles rule especially the ones with the wooden wicks that make the firecracklin noise
I suppose this is a “good comment” because the incoherence makes is harder to understand.
Or something.
Makes me wish I had a good bayberry candle.
Mmm, loganberry.
Seriously though, my husband’s the biggest boon to the scented candle industry there ever was. And you can pry his patchouli from his cold, dead hands.
Would someone please explain the resume metaphor to me? I just don’t…
pillowinhell: What is so terrible about having the occassional woman who does not want kids or marriage?
It undermines the basic tenet that women are infantile, incapable and need a man to function.
It really does seem to be that simple with a great deal of the misogynists of the world.
The manosphere has the (non-trivial) contingent which thinks any woman who isn’t married is evil for existing; past puberty, unless she sleeps with them. If she won’t, then she’s either a shameless flirt: assaulting them with her sexiness; while not putting out,or she’s a brazen-harlot for not putting out with them
But it’s all predicate, in both camps, on women being unable to function on their own. That one does calls the entire philosophy into question. It’s not really a surprise that rant was written by a woman who is fellow-travelling with them. She needs to believe it more than they do, because she seems to have modeled her life on the idea.
I think the argument is that women who earn income by working are preventing men from earning that same income in that same job, and then the women spend that money frivolously on SCENTED MOTHERFUCKING CANDLES!! If a man had that job, of course, he would spend the money on Important Manly Things. Certainly, they wouldn’t buy scented candles, because those have girl cooties!
It makes a lot of sense, really, when you remember that women don’t need to eat or clothe themselves or their dependants because of ladymagic; and no man has ever spent his money on something just for his own amusement. And of course, buying something for your amusement is bad, because things that make you happy that you buy with your own money are sinful and wrong.
There you go misrepresenting MRAs again by directly quoting the comment of the week from one of their most popular websites.
Cloudiah: Would someone please explain the resume metaphor to me? I just don’t…
A job can’t love you. It may provide you with a home, and food, and clothing, but it’s not going to love you.
So, one needs a baby; which will love you, unconditionally, and without reservation. Men, of course, aren’t in the same boat. A job can, “fulfill” them, but women can’t do that. The “biological clock” will make them have a sad.
BTW, Ami reminded us of why babies are so important for women:
http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pgq6f/
I think “scented candles” serve the same symbolic purpose as “white or pink wine that comes in boxes.” Both are stereotypical lifestyle ornaments of the lonely, childless career woman.
I should clarify it was the resume-raping that was giving me pause. Thanks Viscaria and Pecunium!
How are Andie’s daughters coming for us if they’re going to be too busy pounding out babies and not going to college? Oh, right, they won’t be.
How in the world could you describe 26-year-old-woman’s original post as a “nasty comment?” And how could you then turn around and commend the response? The only “nasty” bit is the “fuck you” at the end, but by god the response was worse than that! (If only logically by containing “fucky you bitch” plus other stuff)
And for that, feminism is a cult… And “zomg your sooo angry! Why are you sooo angry?” *sigh* Not angry, but annoyed and flabberghasted that you are saying that women (and only women) are completely worthless after about 1/4 to 1/3 of their total life span.
Which, according to WTF Price, is actually just a criticism of the ideology of “boundless possibility and limitless options.” Good lord, you could hold a spaceship stable with that spin.
By the way, was this
In Price’s original post? Cause it’d be hilarious if Price was stealth editing his posts while labeling critics as all angry and foaming and raging and nonsensical. That’d be great.
And as I said before on this page; I don’t know what the average age for getting married among women is in the USA, but here in Sweden it’s 34. That’s the AVERAGE age women are getting married. Meaning lots and lots of women are even OLDER than THAT!
Maybe it’s lower in the USA, but I seriously doubt that in your country almost nobody gets married when they’re past 25.
I propose we come up with a new word to describe Formerly-Known-As-Childless-Women. Something sparkly and appreciative.
In all honesty, though, I’d LOVE to hear what these people have to say about overpopulation in the world. A few women deciding to not have children does NOT spell the end of humanity.
Oddly, enough last night I was doing a Pagan ritual and I used incense and scented candles…I remember how at peace it made me feel and relazed.
Then when I woke up this morining and saw this….I burst out laughing
The 26 year old is Pervocracy, right?
I know my parents got married at around 30ish. And they… wait for it…
Had kids. *dramatic sting*
And my mom… wait for it…
Had a career! *even more dramatic sting*
While raising kids! *the dramatic in this sting is overwhelming*
After having gotten a college degree (unlike my dad)!!! *oh-gods-the-drama-tic sting*
My god… you mean it’s possible for women to do stuff after about three or four years after they graduate college? Seriously. And that’s just undergad. If you talk graduate school, women would basically be useless upon graduation. Fuck.
Yeah right, I don’t have children and I’m not planning to either (35 now, so I don’t think it likely that I will change my mind). Does this make me a man? Or something else?
For any spear-headers happening to read the comments, let me clarify. I know you aren’t saying that its impossible for women to do anything worth-while after 25 if they don’t have kids. But think about this for a sec:
How many women have gone through grad school?
Since you’re claiming that the norm is for women to basically be worthless after 25, why in the world hasn’t it been brought to peoples attention that the majority of women with graduate degrees lead unfufilling lives?
And for gods’ sakes, think about how many female politicians, ceos, activists, and so forth are over 25. And you still want to claim that your life is set at 25? Guh.
I’m sure woman #2 would be very glad for woman #1 to help her or her children out if they got sick or hurt and had to go to the emergency room.
Scented fucking candles were the #1 consumer product in 2010. In 2011, the top consumer product was hands-free fucking video cameras.
http://www.inc.com/inc5000/list
my mom also had me at 30s and my MIL had my husband at 34 I think….so all her concern trolling is absolutly bullshit. Also I am a magician, and have performed at the magic castle! and am doing volunteer work and have many wonderful family and friends…I feel very fulfilled and happy after 25 and so do many many other women…..I think Pecunium is right…these men and women(who i don’t understand why they think this way) REally get angry at the thought that yes, women can lead fulfilling lives!
BTW if you want to hear more Andi that will make your blood boil, she was also going on and on about how working mothers weren’t real mothers and how she only went to college to get a MRS degree…
What I find ironic is this…she hates feminists for empowering women for having control in their lives..and seems to think that feminsts brainwash women unto tdoing stuff they don’t want to do….but her and her friends are the ones that want to shame and control women into making choices they want
errrr sorry if I have been rambeling lately….just have a lot on my mind…tell me to shut up if I am being annoying lol
Average marriage age in the US is 26/28.
Women don’t usually become infertile in their 20’s so it’s perfectly fine for them to wait on marriage and children. And choosing not to procreate is a great choice for many people.
BTW, Mainstay’s Black Cherry is my favorite scented candle. I put the $5 candle in my candle warmer and it makes the room smell so good.
@katz: Okay, that means plenty of women in the US as well are getting married when they’re like thirty or so.
It’s always a little problematic to speculate about what’s going on inside of other people, but I wonder if this isn’t stemming from the same place as ‘Left Behind’-esque cosmic revenge fantasies. Sure, you’re having fun now, doing what you want to do, having fun sex with no guilt, and you have independence and a disposable income and don’t have to change diapers … but someday, you’ll realize how wrong you were, and it will be too late, and THEN you’ll be sorry! I can’t help but think that’s at least part of what’s behind the virulent anger from “shieldmaidens.”
The scented candles thing I don’t get at all. Do stay-at-home moms not use scented candles? Why not? Just put them where any kids who are too young to understand ‘we don’t touch fire’ can’t reach them. Scented candles are nice.
I realize that women who do not have or want children are worthless and should kill themselves, but do I get a pass since I carry the gene that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy? This means that if I have a son (DMD almost only affects boys; misandry, I know), there is a good chance that he will have it, which will deteriorate his muscles until he can no longer walk or breathe on his own. There is no cure and most men with DMD die in their late teens or early twenties. Am I still a reprehensible bitch for not wanting to bring a child into the world that may have this dreadful disease? In their mind, I probably am.
I’m normally an incense kind of woman, but those sound awesome! I’ve never seen them though. Where can I further the oppression of men by buying some?
That makes a lot of sense. I couldn’t wrap my feeble female brain around the point she was trying to make. All I could think was, What in the fuck do scented candles have to do with anything?
Yankee Candle is one of the largest candle retailers in the country and they just came out with a line of scented candles FOR MEN. http://www.yankeecandle.com/yankee-candles/man-candles I’m sure this is some type of misandry.
The “women become infertile at 26″ is a weird bit of concern trolling that a lot of women’s magazines use. After all, women’s magazines only run about 10 different types of stories, one of which is “I had a great career and got married at 30 but then couldn’t have a child and my life is meaningless.” It’s written in a way that tries to play it off as just a bit of information (you need to be aware of this just so that it doesn’t happen to you) but in reality it’s a way to scare women. Because scared women buy shit, and magazines are all about selling you shit.
Some people can only be happy in their life decisions if they are able to put down everyone who makes a different decision. The idea that you could be married, or single, or have children or not and all be happy is foreign to these people. Life is a game with only one correct path. Everyone who is on the path that isn’t you must, therefore, be miserable.
“In 2011, the top consumer product was hands-free fucking video cameras.”
I think you meant to say HANDS-FREE FUCKING VIDEO CAMERAS.
Thanks, feminism!
What a piece of shit, just like the boys in the tree house she’s so desperate to find entry into.
Lady commenters say “fucking” a lot.
Well, I’m 45 and I haven’t had kids, so I guess I ain’t a woman. Does that mean I’m going to get a 30% raise at work?
My biological clock was ticking pretty loudly in my middle 30’s, but then I spent 2 years being a full-time nanny, and it shut down completely. I love being an auntie. Don’t want to be a mom AT ALL. Full-time, 24/7 child care is not good for my mental health.
What the fucking fuck? My resume rapes currency? What kind of drugs to you have to take to come up with that? Even if she mean “reap” instead of “rape”, it still doesn’t make any fucking sense.
I’m pretty sure the 26 yo woman is Holly, and yes, providing medical care in an emergency room is certainly doing utterly useless shit. I’m also heartened to know that the female EMTs and firefighters I know are doing utterly useless shit. Not to mention the daycare providers, teachers, engineers, electricians, plumbers, cooks, health inspectors, etc. etc. etc. are serving no useful function in society, and are just getting paid for no apparent reason.
And I see no logical connection between women working and children being raised without fathers. Also, these Family Values people are always going on about the evils or GIANT ASS government without ever seeming to notice that it’s conservative governments who become GIANT ASS while at the same time cutting all the support systems that they’re so contemptuous of. Why, why, WHY can’t they use critical thinking skills?
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I actually don’t like scented fucking candles, because their scent has a waxy, chemically undertone. I prefer a pot of simmering water with a few drops of essential oil in it. Much cleaner scent.
I denounce thee women, from whence scented candles didst spring!!!
/is a devout despiser of scented candles
10 bucks says her daughters are coming for us because they’re planning on ditching her dumb ass as soon as they can. I think what Andie considers a charge, the rest of the world recognizes as defection
Like I observed, lady commenters say “fucking” a lot.
Elmer: in this cas, it’s on topic. If it annoys misogynists, that’s a fucking plus.
Maybe the problem with candles is that ladies quickly escalate to the “Johnny Wadd” model, which tends to jade them somewhat.
@Uncle Elmer, I sure fucking do! Lots of other women fucking don’t! It’s fucking almost like women have individual fucking communication styles, like fucking men fucking do. Do you have a fucking point?
@Unimaginative,
Ooh, that sounds really nice!
I only see a few “lady commenters” saying fucking in this thread, and I notice I have both been saying “fucking” more than usual and have a penis.
I think you have more observing to do, Uncle Elmer.
Elmer has taught us an important rule: If you say something and the very next post isn’t replying to it, say it again.
It’s always nice when total strangers tell me that I’m not really a woman because I don’t want kids. I’m pretty sure, though, that both my doctor and the tech who did my last pelvic ultrasound would be very surprised by this…
Uncle Elmer: What’s the big fuckin’ deal? Fuck, fuckity fuck fuck fuck!
And yes, I swear like this in real life, too. In front of my mother and husband (and even my father, when he was alive)!
Maybe the problem with candles is they remind Andie of the flame and void, which reminds her of the Wheel of Time, which gave her PTSD because of the battle of Dumai’s Wells?
I mean, as long as we’re pulling things out of our asses.
This whole comment just reinforces my feeling that these people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about (and they’re hopeless hypocrites).
If you decide not to become a mom, you’re pegged as a heartless harpie or (insert horrible, you’re-not-a-real-woman meme).
If you decide to become a mom, CONGRATULATIONS! Every other mom in the world is going to look down her nose at your choices and FREAK THE FUCK OUT every time you don’t make some privileged choice that she had the ability to make (you will not fucking believe how many times I’ve been attacked, talked down to, and belittled by other moms simply for admitting that I use disposable diapers-FOR SERIOUS). And then there are the people who don’t currently have children, the childfree who give you evil looks at the store just because your kid is babbling slightly louder than “inside voice level” (I live in a town full of a lot of liberal, non-kid-having people, and I respect their choices but would appreciate if they wouldn’t shoot me evil looks when my kid talks in a high-pitched voice (her only voice, really) in a public place. Then you have the older people whose kids have grown up who are CERTAIN that their children “never behaved like that” (yay for selective memory!). There’s the “advice givers” and the “assumers” (yeah, because I’m out with my kid without my husband around, I *must* be an Evil Single Mom who is Sucking Up Your Government Money *rolls eyes*).
But I didn’t have a child because of society’s bullshit. I had a child because I wanted to grow, birth and raise a kid of my own. That is *my* choice and it is not something I would subscribe to any other women out there.
I liken it to your hands. Pretty much everyone is born with two of them. But wouldn’t it be sad if we were told that hands were only good for one thing, and if you didn’t use your hands for those particular things that your life would be unfulfilling and meaningless? Some people use their hands to create great works of art. Others create manuscripts and scholarly writing. Still others help to find cures and treatment for disease. We can use our hands for all sorts of amazing things, some of which have probably not even been thought of yet.
And yes, the whole “use your uterus” meme is counterbalanced in the MRA movement with an equally sexist-to-males trope- the whole “penis is only for sticking in female orifices” meme- which basically ignores homosexual male sex (because guys having sex with EACH OTHER is icky to MRAs), and ignores types of male sexual engagement and behavior that don’t subscribe to annoying porn tropes of “PERPETUALLY HARD PENIS->STICK IT IN-> PUMP REALLY HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES WHILE GROANING MASCULINELY->SHOOT OUT SEMEN->SLEEP.”
And don’t even get me started on how on Mother’s day, most moms ask for the simplest of things (time off from responsibilities as Mom), and yet they pretty much never get it- instead being told “Oh here’s some present I bought you that you don’t really want and I’m going to bitch about because it was so fucking expensive.” But most Mother’s Day presents are stuff like small bits of jewelry, flowers, or (yes, even) scented candles- most of it can be bought on a budget or even for free if you cut your own flowers and make your own card.
On Father’s day? Buy dad a BIG SCREEN TV. Let him GO OUT WITH THE GUYS. Buy him AN EXPENSIVE GADGET. Dads generally get a huge pay out on Father’s Day, and in addition most of them get a REAL “day off” from having to deal with the kids because the woman generally does most of it anyway.
Bottom line is- if you’re a mom, everyone (including yourself) is expected that you’re going to sacrifice everything for your children, that you will cut corners on your own life, save all the good stuff and the extra money for others, and basically be a selfless human version of the Giving Tree until all that’s left is this stump all the while your ungrateful children and husband (ex husband who left you for a mistress?) ask why you can’t just give them MORE?
If you’re a dad, and you show even slight interest in caring for YOUR OWN KIDS, you’re pedestaled as a saint, you are smiled kindly at by people in the store because you have kids with you- women will stop you on the street and talk to you because you have a stroller with a baby in it, etc. And you are never looked askance by anyone else if you hand the stinky-diapered child or screaming child to your female partner and ask her to “take care of it.”
This book actually sums up a lot of this stuff right here: http://www.amazon.com/Manhood-Amateurs-Pleasures-Regrets-Husband/dp/0061490180
Most moms are left with the dirtiest jobs, the hardest jobs, and the sad and angry face of child-rearing. It is not something you take lightly- but if it is something you wish to take on, it can be rewarding because you take this little squalling person who can barely even feed themselves and you help them become comfortable in their own skin and understand how to interact in society. The problem is that while you’re doing it- the stress and frustation is relentless and there are few if any support groups or people out there who will understand that taking your child for an hour is great, yes, but it does not keep you from feeling overwhelmed in the long-run, and sure, changing one dirty diaper is better than changing zero, but that still doesn’t make you a true-co-parent if every time things get hard you hand the kid off to the woman.
People ask surgeons or astronauts why they do hard things if they are full of misery and danger- the truth of the matter is that, like parenting, people do dangerous, icky jobs, not just for the paycheck but for those times when you finally get to see the diamond in the rough- when you get those moments of pure joy and ecstasy at your accomplishments- when you realize, hey, this shit is WORKING. But there is constantly the specter of failure, of it all coming down on your shoulders and even if the peanut gallery is silent, you have your own peanut gallery in your head reinforcing those negative thoughts.
So no, being a parent is not for everyone, but at the same time I am FUCKING TIRED of people asking me why I chose to do it if it’s so hard and drudgerous and relentless (and no, I didn’t get tricked into parenthood- I am partially infertile and therefore had to TRY to have a baby). I did it for the same reason that many people choose to do things- BECAUSE I OWN MY CHOICES AND DECIDED THAT IT WAS RIGHT FOR ME (and additionally, my husband and I actually talked it out long and decided we were ready before we started attempting to conceive, and we were both on the same page as far as it was concerned seeing as I had to go off of birth control pills and get all these blood tests to check my hormonal profile and then he had to forgo condoms, and it took a good six to eight months in order for us to do it).
I make no decisions or judgements on other peoples lives. They can choose what they want out of it. What I can’t abide by is the constant haranguing and hand wringing by MRAs that seems to go on because Other Women Out There are not all making the decision that these individual guys think is the best. It’s like they think that out there, somewhere, someone should make all the shitty sacrifices and do the Hard Thing, but they don’t want that to be THEM (because, you know, important manly things and stuff), but good lord SOMEONE has to have THEIR BABIES and DO ALL THE HARD RAISING STUFF and they want the luxury of not having to think about any of that stuff and yet turn around 18 years later and pat their son or daughter on the shoulder and take credit for all that hard work (or alternatively, blame the woman for doing a “bad job” if the child comes out “wrong”).
Not all men are like this, but these MRA douchebags *are*. They want an unpaid domestic servant, a slave who looks the other way when he decides to stray, and a punching bag (emotional and physical) for any of his rage issues and inadequacies that he can blame on her. That’s why they want to trap teenagers and foreign women into relationships- they want to exploit vulnerable populations and force them to stay in unhealthy and abusive relationships and defer their power to “the Man” because they have no other choice. Oh, and then discard them the second they no longer seem like favorable assets.
Excuse me, I have to go throw up- the implications of female slavery and abuse are absolutely disgusting.
Or maybe she was traumatized by this poem.
Wouldn’t that be nice! Then I could travel and do all sorts of other things I couldn’t do if I had a bazillion kiddos to take care of. I doubt I will ever be able to “rape” my resume of that much money, but it’s fun to dream.
Speaking of fucking feminine frivolity, I made some motherfucking scented body butter today. You should all try it, it’s fucking amazing. I melted three parts fucking shea butter with one part felching hazelnut oil, left the fucker to cool, and just as it was about to solidify I added a few drops of essential oil of cunting tangerine and whisked it like fuck.
Cliff P: hope you’re OK. I’m not sure how well I could cope with being the target of this much spite. Even such utterly ridiculous, incoherent spite as this.
That…
is the greatest poem I have ever heard.
(sorry Kirbywarp)
@MissPrism
Sounds like some fantastic fucking body butter! What the fuck does one do with body butter, lay in the fucking sun? I ask because it just makes me think of cooking, but obviously I’m a clueless fuck when it comes to that fucking stuff.
MissPrism, do you use a double fucking broiler to melt the fucking shea butter, or just a regular pot?
Body butter is the shit! I would fucking love to make some.
I still don’t get this “logic”:
– Women who are highly focused on having a child and searching for a baby daddy who will support them as a SAHM = BAD because misandry (hide your used condoms boys!)
– Women who get educations and have careers and postpone child-bearing = BAD because ????
MissPrism, I am totally in love with the idea of ‘cunting tangerine.’ Is that a separate species? Where can I obtain such a plant? I generally have a black thumb, but I would absolutely make an effort for that.
Some women are just so good at swearing people pay to listen to them:
Sheila Addison – BAD because women. Woman = bad. All the rest is window-dressing.
When I was a little girl, my mother told me never to use the f-word because men would not respect me if I did. As you can fucking see I didn’t take her fucking advice to fucking heart.
It’s just a very rich moisturiser – rich enough that it would also be nice as a fucking massage oil (but not literally if you’re using latex condoms, obvs). It melts on contact with the skin. Recipe modified from this one:
http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/02/make-your-own-moisturizing-body-butter.html
I haven’t got a fucking double boiler so I just put a Pyrex bowl over a pan of hot water. Like as if I was melting cocking chocolate.
We’re going to see The Avengers, so I haven’t the time to catch up but this needs to be said in response to, “you aren’t a woman”.
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negroes’ rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
I always use a double fucking boiler, or a goddamn fondue pot, when I’m melting fucking chocolate, because I can’t be assed to watch it close enough to keep from burning the shit out of it, which pisses me off.
Kyrie – I went to see Fascinating Aida live a few months ago! They seemed brilliant and hilarious to me, but unfortunately at least two of them and probably all 3 were over 25, though, so they were probably completely worthless after all.
Heh.
Cunting tangerine.
I’m glad there’s happyfunsmilethings coming out of Complete Bullshit. It’s like wonderful fertiliser.
You could probably melt it in a fucking microwave if you couldn’t be arsed to piss about with pans of hot water.
I’m in my late 20s and have known for awhile that I never want kids. In the future I’ll probably get my tubes tied. I never knew that my own personal choices would chap so much MRA hide but knowing it does fills me with glee.
Oh and Andie? Bring it.