British Men’s Rightser to feminists: I will fight you until my dying breath! And so will my totally real ex-model girlfriend.
Sasha’s eloquent words, immortalized in ugly MRA poster form by Cloudiah of Artistry for Feminism. And Kittens.
Meet Sasha. Sasha is an angry young man living in England (allegedly), with a super-HAWT girlfriend (allegedly), and a lot of opinions about feminism (not-so-allegedly). The other day, he decided to share some of these opinions with the world. Or at least with any of those feminists who happened to be reading the Men’s Rights subreddit at the time.
In a topic devoted to a conference on “lad culture” in British universities, Sasha lashed out at feminists for what he sees as their hypocritical attack on boorish, sexist “lads.” Hypocritical, you see, because these very same women allegedly have sex with posh men all the bloody time:
You don’t like ‘lad culture’? My dear, I don’t give a fuck what you do and don’t like. … The hypocrisy is staggering – you’ll be dropping your knickers in a flash if a dashing Etonian invited you to the Bullingdon, but God forbid some working class fella gets a bit tipsy and sings a rugby song.
Naturally, he dismissed women’s accounts of harassment as stuff and nonsense:
You’ve been threatened with rape by fellow students ‘to loosen you up’? have you fuck, you lying toe tag. If you’re going to make shit up try to make it less fantastical why don’t you.
So in short my dear, fuck you and fuck the high horse you rode in on.
In a series of followup comments so angry that some of them were actually downvoted to zero by the Men’s Rights crowd — I know, right! — Sasha pranced about on his own high horse spewing misogynistic nonsense. First, he demanded that feminists take on the very serious gold-digging whore problem:
[A]re women inclined to be gold-digging whores? Unfortunately, there’s a good case for saying you are. I wouldn’t paint all of you with such a broad brush, but let’s put it simply: feminists – you’ve got to own this shit. There are many, many negative aspects of femininity, and you’ve got enough shit of your own to address before you start pointing fingers at anyone else.
Then he proclaimed feminists to be the equivalent of the racist English Defense League and the Klan.
You’re a bigot. You don’t understand that you’re a bigot, because like the EDL or the KKK you think that your status as a ‘persecuted group’ gives you the right to behave as vilely as possible. However be in no doubt as the depth of my utter disgust for you as a human being and for your ideology.
Oh, we be in no doubt.
You are a supporter of an ideology of hate. You are a feminist. You are, by definition, a fascistic narcissist who trades in lies, deceit and hatred. I will fight you until my dying breath and society would be better without you. That clear enough?
When a female Redditor pointed out that she herself had been catcalled on campus, he pulled out his trump card: his EX-MODEL GIRLFRIEND.
OK, well how do you explain the fact that my partner, who is an attractive 20-something American former fashion model attending a Northern English university, says that she has never, not once, ever, heard a single catcalling insult or ever felt threatened in any way whatsoever on her campus, or anywhere in the UK?
I faxed this comment of his to my fax girlfriend Kate Winslet, and she faxed back a message about what a lying loser she thought he was. Then we fax made out for a while until we ran out of toner.
Anyway, then Sasha yelled at his main critic for a bit:
You’re not a decent human being, you’re a feminist. You’re as vile and reprehensible as other bigots like the cunts in the Westborough Baptist Church, or Golden Dawn or the EDL or the KKK. Fuck you, fuck the family that raised you in such a cloud of ignorance and hatred, and fuck everything you stand for.
As for ‘helping men’, disparaging bigoted cunts like you is a key part of it.
Yes, that’s right. He called someone a “bigoted cunt,” without the slightest bit of self-awareness.
Then he took it a bit too far:
By the way, do you like cats? I know most feminists do. I like cats too. I’ll bet your cat thinks you’re a bigoted cunt as well.
Dude. Don’t EVEN go there.
NOTE: Thanks to Cloudiah and the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to Sasha’s oeuvre.
Posted on February 25, 2014, in antifeminism, are these guys 12 years old?, entitled babies, evil sexy ladies, evil women, excusing abuse, grandiosity, incoherent rage, irony alert, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, my hot girlfriend, oppressed men, reddit, sexual harassment and tagged anti-feminism, antifeminism, lad culture, men's rights, misogyny, MRA, reddit, sexual harassment. Bookmark the permalink. 564 Comments.
Biscuit is a champion farter, and it’s usually when his butt is near your face.
What does she eat? Could be food related. Too much grain isn’t good for their digestive systems.
RE: cassandrakitty
“Lentils!” was a Jezebel meme for a while, in honor of the smug assholes who always jump into any discussion about poverty and food deserts to suggest that if poor people would only learn to cook lentils all their food-related woes would be solved.
Uuuuurrrgh, those asshats. Pretty much any smug cocksore who wants to tell poor people how their poverty could be cured with [insert hipster bohemian behavior here] gets my guff up.
Remember when Alice Waters said that poor black people (she was very specific about the race part of this) should buy organic grapes “instead of expensive sneakers” and that would take care of the whole food desert thing? There’s something about the politics of food that really brings out people’s inner ignorant asshole.
Alice Waters can shut up. I find aspects of the slow food movement incredibly insufferable and dripping with unexamined privilege.
RE: cassandrakitty
I figure because it meshes with fucked up ideas about health and beauty. That and people have never seen what an actual food dessert is like.
I love her food, but her attitude leaves a lot to be desired.
I saw another example (not food related) in the Guardian on an article about gentrification in Oakland. Tech dude scolding poor people who’re being evicted for being dumb to have rented instead of just buying a house. Because that’s totally something everyone can afford to do in the Bay Area, right?
Oh, I know this all too well.
My mom and her ex-boyfriend – when they were together – were devoted to raw veganism, the vegan ideology defined by its opposition to cooking anything. In my experience with raw veganists, they have extreme disdain for anything cooked, asserting that cooking food is the same as literally killing it. Cooking is an intrinsic evil committed against food.
Several years ago my mom and her then-boyfriend hosted these “raw food cafes” at our then-current house in Boulder. They had pretty good raw chocolate and other raw sweets, but when my brother and I dared to order a pizza and take it downstairs to the basement (the cafe was situated upstairs) my mom’s then-boyfriend would fucking freak out and tell us that we’re ruining everything. On other occasions I would walk into the kitchen to make a PB&J while my mom’s then-boyfriend was preparing a raw dish and he would literally tell me to keep my “cooked hands” i.e. hands that have touched cooked food out of the kitchen.
Oh, and to top it off, almost all of these raw veganists are anti-vaxxer new age folks.
Oh the lentil people. They always have some anecdote about being “poor” in college and managing to eat healthy. They can never grasp that being temporarily broke and having the socioeconomic status of poor are two separate things.
These people probably had cookware bought for them by their parents. They probably live in a neighborhood that isn’t a food desert. They probably aren’t working three minimum wage jobs or raising children alone.
Lentil people think they are liberals but when it comes to food and diet issues they have the right wing bootstraps mentality. It makes me so mad.
Sorry, I realize that this discussion is specifically about the role of racism and class oppression in fueling shitty attitudes towards food, but that thing came to mind anyway.
@ Ally
It’s crank magnetism again! Want to hear something even funnier? There’s a crossover between the anti-vax and raw vegan movement for people and the raw diet only movement for cats. Now, I have nothing against a raw diet for cats, it’s actually healthy as long as people do it right, but the weird thing is that you’ll run across people who’re into that who’re also anti-vax for their kids AND anti-vax for their cats, AND the ones who’re breeders will sometimes refuse to adopt out their cats to families where the kids have been vaccinated.
Oh dear, it’s everywhere now it seems. X_X
Another thing I don’t like about raw veganism is its biological essentialism. If you think new age gender essentialist narratives about “mother earth” are annoying, wait until you hear that shit from a raw veganist.
I think the only thing I like about raw veganism is that raw brownies and raw ice cream are surprisingly delicious.
WWTH – oh gods yes, I’ve had several kitties who did the Farts of Death. Mamie didn’t just fart, she blarted – and I’m not going into any more detail than “clothes, in wash, immediately”. Fribs does the Cloud of Death that moves through the house at light speed.
It’s just weird because the Dracy-beast only farts when she’s running around. She also drools when she sits on my lap. She’s just a strange kitty I guess.
@LBT It’s Robert Ramirez not Robert Rodriguez, I can understand your confusion since all of us Hispanics look the same. I don’t direct B-movies.
And I stand by my statement, I think his rage is being misdirected because he keeps bringing up class issues. Much of the criticism directed at “Lad culture” is the same sort of class criticism that is directed at “Chav” culture, it is as the two terms have become interchangable. Hell even I get pissed when I see any criticisms of the “Chavs” coming from any circle.
He is pissed at class criticism but choose the wrong target. Many MRA’s do this, they are pissed at the patriarchy but just aren’t aware enough of know that it isn’t women or feminist oppressing them but they are being oppressed as a class not men.
It’s the excitement of running around that stirs things up! Some of mine have the habit of running around like they’re training for the Melbourne Cup when they need to use the litter. We say they’ve got rocket fuel, as in having a solid fuel dump.
Mamie was a world-class dribbler. I’d swear she had some Labrador in her background. She squirted fore and aft. Darling girl but really bad for the clothes!
Don’t eat the yellow snow, where the huskies go!
Re raw food, there was a huge outbreak of Ecoli poisoning in Europe traced back to bean sprouts (mungbeans?). At least if it’s cooked, there’s some chance that the bacteria have been killed.
And then there was the ecoli in spinach outbreak here a few years ago. I don’t really like cooked spinach…
::looks apprehensively at bag of spinach in fridge::
Eat it the Chinese way, barely tossed in a hot pan with garlic and soy sauce? At least that way it doesn’t turn into spinach mush.
Nah, I just have my spinach in sammiches, it’s not getting cooked.
I misread the name as “Alice Walker”, which made this sentence, for a brief moment, genuinely shocking to me.
@weirwoodtreehugger
My response to those college students would be that I’ve never been to a college town or neighborhood that didn’t have plenty of readily available fresh produce and healthy food choices, and most poor areas have none. Often poor people don’t even have easy access to a decent grocery store.
The whole slow-food business tends to assume people have the time (never mind the skills, resources etc) for mucking round in the kitchen, doesn’t it?
Also a kitchen with an oven, multiple hobs, a great variety of pots, pans, knives, and assorted kitchen implements, culinary interest and skills, and a nearby farmers market.
So, you know, totally an option that everyone should avail themselves of.
I once looked at at apartment in Covent Garden that had nothing in the kitchen other than a mini fridge and a microwave. Try making slow food if you live there.
@Newt
Yep, let’s give the misogynist the benefit of the doubt. He’s comparing feminist to neo-nazi groups and calling all feminists cunts but, hey, he’s just a little confused.
Have you read the strapline of this blog?
Is it coincidence that in your only two comments on this thread, you felt the need to negate mine?
It’s not even basic negation, it has the air of (very petty) oneupmanship too.
I’ll take your opinions over theirs anytime, @titianblue. I’ll give extra pats to one of my cats and say they’re from you. :)
Hey, other people who are tired of the unexamined privilege in the health foodie movements! High-five!
If someone could point me to a peer reviewed article on this issue, I would be interested in reading one. Links to articles behind a paywall are fine.
I can’t stand when people get mad about people buying steaks or vodka with food stamps and lecture on and on about how they should be eating beans and rice and it just proves that they’re irresponsible with money and that’s why they’re poor. FFS, being trapped in poverty sucks. If someone wants a treat, let them have it. Someone who’s on welfare or struggling to support a family on a minimum wage job isn’t going to be able to budget their way out of poverty by eating ramen noodles. I dunno, it just smacks of wanting to punish people further for being poor. “You should be miserable, dammit! Only rich people deserve steak!”
Re: the OP, why do these angry ranters always claim to have super-hawt 8.5+ girlfriends? Do they expect us to believe there’s a plethora of beautiful women out there who are attracted to raging, loathsome internet ranters? Or could it be they’re just trying to establish bro cred?
He did refer to her as his “partner”, so maybe she’s in his bridge club or something.
I remember the first time I setup a food co-op. It was awesome. Most of my clients managed to cut thier food bills in half. It was a lot of work but it more than made up for our time and effort.
I get annoyed when people start judging people with vouchers or stamps if they buy the occasional luxury. Life is grim enough, without people tut-tutting because you picked up a block of chocolate for your kids.
If you think about it, the tut-tutters are operating under a framework that morally condemns poor people for having anything enjoyable in their lives. Pleasure belongs to rich people, they believe. Poor people are stealing it. What a screwed up, damaging worldview.
I didn’t realize ice cream needed cooking 0.o
I used to make pretty awesome vegan desserts, but they weren’t healty. It’s surprisingly easy to just swap the milk, eggs, and butter with soymilk, this weird vegan egg mix that I forgot the name of, and vegan butter.
The powder was only for baking, you couldn’t make omelets or anything with it.
Agreed. The idea that poor people should never cease their suffering makes me so angry.
I had neighbors who were doing the raw pet food thing. I don’t know if they were doing it right, but I do know they had a completely untrained pitbull puppy. I used to pet sit for them, and nothing quite like taking that dog out for walks and trying to keep it from jumping on people (who just saw pitbull). When I mentioned training to them, I was the fascist tool of the man, keeping them down, man.
Hellkell,
That’s nothing but an excuse for laziness.
@Kiwi girl definitely give your kitties at extra pat from me.
@buttercup Not convinced Sasha has the temperament for bridge.
Opponent1: Pass
Sasha: Pass
Opponent 2: 1 Spade
Sasha’s partner: 2 Diamonds.
Sasha: 2 diamonds? Have you fuck, you lying toe tag!
Opponent 2: \Really, you’re using rather threatening language.
Sasha: Fuck you! She’s never felt threatened in any way whatsoever on her campus, or anywhere in the UK.
Opponent 1: Now this really isn’t appropriate langauge.
Sasha: Well fuck you and fuck the high horse you rode in on.
Partner: I really don’t like to be yelled at like this.
Sasha: My dear, I don’t give a fuck what you do and don’t like. … The hypocrisy is staggering.
Opponent 1 to Sasha’s partner: Would you like to change partners?
Partner: Yes please.
Sasha: You gold-digging whore!
Turns to Opponent 1: Wait a minute – Is that a Bullingdon Club tie you’re wearing?
leatapp: Yeah. I hope that dog is OK. The laziness on their part was just a recipe for disaster that the dog would end up paying for.
I’m not convinced about that, kittehs. If you recall 2009, that was the year that Adelaide broke its own and every other capital city’s record for heatwaves – in March. (I remember it clearly because it was, of course, festival time and it was positively eerie in the city after the first week and the heat was only getting worse. All the building sites silent, very little traffic and hardly anyone sitting in our outside cafes anywhere. Shivers down the back time.)
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
I agree with everything you said, but you mentioned buying vodka and you can’t buy liquor with food stamps.
I double-checked that before correcting you; since I already invested two minutes googling that info, I’m posting the list of what items are ineligible.
Households CANNOT use SNAP benefits to buy:
Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco
Any nonfood items, such as:
pet foods
soaps, paper products
household supplies
Vitamins and medicines
Food that will be eaten in the store
Hot foods
titianblue – LOL! That gives new meaning to the term “dummy”…
Brooked – yeah, I know you can’t buy liquor with food stamps, but I have often heard people claim it as hyperbole to underline how terrible poor people are. It’s like the mythical Cadillac welfare queen.
Poor puppy.
Off-topic but related: I have zero patience for people who say their pets are vegetarian. Particularly if they have cats. That’s just cruel.
No soaps, paper products, household supplies, vitamins, or medicines????
Okay, you aren’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but maybe you can enlist your vet to help and avoid the worst of it yourself.
Cats have glands near their anus that produce an oily, foetid residue that some of them (especially male cats) express, particularly when they are upset or wound up. It could be that Dracarys needs to visit a groomer or a vet to have those glands expressed manually. You can do it at home but it’s not very comfortable for the cat and not AT ALL pleasant for the individual doing the expressing, because it can actually spray and it difficult to wash away (vinegar is your friend).
Try googling cat anal glands and see if what you find is helpful?
One of the advantages of my life in retirement is having the time to cook dinners from scratch. When I was working, the sked was: get home, immediately start cooking, eat dinner, immediately wash dishes, and then it was time to get ready for bed, so I could get up and catch the six a.m. bus. Didn’t have much time with husband or kids.
Yesterday, I made falafel and baba ghanoush from scratch. Tonight it’s Salisbury steak. I know exactly how hard this would be if things were only slightly different. But they are the way they are, and the fam gets home cooked meals six nights a week. Luckily food and its preparation are one of my favorite things. Or two.
Robert Ramirez – my apologies for the chav bashing. They have enough problems without being associated with the OP.
I’m old enough to remember Ronnie Reagan’s talking about a young man buying an orange and then using the change to buy a bottle of vodka with food stamps. It was at best an unsubstantiated story, many argue it was a complete fabrication, meant to show how welfare fraud was wasting the honest taxpayers’ money. It was so super racist that it’s burned into my brain, similar to those Willie Horton ads.
Not good times.
@Brooked:
I legit thought this was spam for ten seconds. Well played.
OMFG the fucking anti-vaxxers. As someone who now has deep lung tissue damage thanks to a five month case of pertussis, people who start spouting about how dangerous vaccines are make me very stabby. I’ve had some other health situations that, for a long stretch of time, made me one of those people the herd is supposed to protect, because I couldn’t risk a course of boosters no matter how I wanted one. I didn’t even know that you could “opt out” of vaccines and still be permitted to attend public schools – I remember when I was a kid, you had to have your vaccine card all up to date or you would not be permitted to enroll, let alone attend classes.
kittehs, just wash that spinach in a mixture of three parts water to one part vinegar and leave for two to three minutes before rinsing (if you want, you don’t have to) and spinning dry. Sprouts, swirl the seeds in a mixture of one tablespoon bleach to two cups of water, then rinse (this time you really should) and sprout as usual. See above, re: not so great immune system. I am very careful!
Oh god, people who lecture The Poors about their food.
I got into a big argument with someone on Slacktivist once about food deserts, stemming from a conversation about a community in California that said local fast food restaurants could no longer sell toys with meals, but could still offer them separately.
Several other commenters and I tried to explain food deserts and how people who have children or multiple jobs or children and multiple jobs or maybe they have to take the bus everywhere might not have any time, and he just kept saying that if they cared about their food they’d make the time to do it right. Every now and then he would come back to yelling at the Calis for making it slightly less convenient for him to buy his (hypothetical) kid a cheap lump of plastic with his crappy burgers.
May anti-vaxxers live in houses made of Legos.
Just the mention of Reagan puts the flames on the side of my face. What evil fucker he was.
@ Viscaria
“Off-topic but related: I have zero patience for people who say their pets are vegetarian. Particularly if they have cats. That’s just cruel.”
I was under the impression that it was really hard (like the slow food convo above, not impossible but not for everyone, cause OMG the money and effort) but not cruel unless done totally wrong.
My dog was diagnosed with severe food allergies not long after I adopted him but the store bought food was hella expensive. My vet suggested I make his food myself using this supplement: http://www.veggiepets.com/shop/vegedog-supplement.html and a recipe he gave me (it included eggs). It was way more affordable and just happened to be vegetarian. He ate it for about three years before I was making enough money (and got so freaking tired of spending 4 hours on Sunday cooking for the dog!) to buy the store bought stuff he’s on now.
Sorry for the derail, I’ll hush now.
And a fridge or freezer for storing all those meals you are supposed to put together so that you can just reheat during the week. In some housing markets, it is not at all uncommon that the landlord isn’t required to provide a fridge.
Oh, and by the way, if you have some spare cash, please go buy a bunch of travel sized soaps (both dish and body), laundry detergent, shampoos and conditioners and drop them off at your local food pantry or homeless shelter. Because you can actually get enough food in a variety of different places and it will be a constant, soul-wounding struggle, but you can manage. But this
is true and one of the most difficult things about trying to keep up the appearance of being a totally normal “productive member of society” while trying to dig yourself out of being super poor.
fromafar2013, dogs yes if you are very vigilant and very careful (they are omnivores like us) but cats no. Cats are obligate carnivores and will get extremely sick on a vegan or vegetarian diet. Funny thing, they evolved eating the whole of small animals (birds, mice, etc) so they need the organs too. I knew several people with cats when I lived in California who couldn’t understand that they needed to include organs and even very finely ground up bones if they were gonna make cat food at home.
@ gillyrosebee
“…one of the most difficult things about trying to keep up the appearance of being a totally normal “productive member of society” while trying to dig yourself out of being super poor.”
So true. When I was unemployed I’d go days without eating much, but I never let myself run out of shampoo or toothpaste. When looking for work it doesn’t matter how well fed you are, it matters what you look like. It sucks.
gillyrosebee,
At my work they have a permanent donation box for soaps, shampoos etc. that people get while traveling for that exact reason.
I’ll try to remember to pick some up next time I’m at target.
Another problem is “interview-quality” clothes. When my mom worked for a job training program, they had a clothes closet full of professional clothes.
@ gillyrosebee
Yeah, I’ve never done the veggie cat thing. I think there would be a revolt and I’d wake up to my cats eating my toes… or like one night I skipped the wet food and woke up with the tail half of a mouse on the pillow next to me. “No wet food? That’s okay, I found this to eat instead! Oh, hey. You want the other half? I’ll just leave this…here.”
Speaking a s a person who is from the socio-economic background in question, that’s right!
You cannot buy anything that’s not food with SNAP benefits. But you can trade them for cash if you get a lot of them. Now the people I know who do this are not spending the benefits on liquor, and cigarettes. (Most poor people don’t smoke, because cigarettes cost money and liquor is considered a treat. )They are using the cash to buy the things you can’t get using only the benefits, like putting gas in the 15 -25 year old “Cadillac” that their brother keeps in good shape, that they bought second hand ten years ago, so they can get to work, or on soap or diapers.
When I see people trotting out their version f the Welfare Queen myth it seriously makes me want to enact some form of violence on them (like a sharp smack). Often such people are speaking from the very depths of their over-privileged ignorance.
“We” don’t have any Whole Foods stores here in this neighborhood. There is no Trader Joe’s to walk to, no organic farmers nearby and I know from personal experience that fresh food cost more money than junk food. When you’re poor, you try to stretch what money you get as long as you can and processed food is exceptionally cheap and much easier to get then organically grown -whatever. When you are poor and work any job and have kids you do not have time to cook elaborate (or heck,even simple) meals for your kids. (You heat up some Chef Boyardee so you can get the kids to bed on time for school tomorrow. )You just don’t have that time! I can’t stress this enough..
I’ve lived this and witnessed this my entire life and over-privileged no-nothings with their nannies and SAH lifestyle, who get up on their righteous high horse about what poor people should be doing with their money and or food need to STFU!
Sorry about the rant but that topic seriously ticks me off.
The latest right wing food stamp meme is that SNAP recipient are selling their cards on Craigslist and presumably using the money for liquor and drugs. They never provide any evidence this is happening. I’m guessing one person saw it one time and emailed his right wing buddies about it and from there it became one of those conservative urban legends they like to brainlessly repeat ad nauseam.
When I lived in LA, I did some volunteering with a group that is now (sadly) defunct. We’d go all over the county to folks with fruit bushes or trees and do free pruning, shaping, etc. and in exchange we get to harvest and keep all the fruit, which got delivered to food pantries and homeless shelters. We’d do collections from farmer’s markets as well. It was a great experience.
One of my friends and co-participants was trying to get together the backing for a meal delivery service (there are tons of them where you call up and order and get gourmet meals for a week, including desserts and snacks, delivered to your door) where you could use your WIC or SNAP benefits to order a full week of healthy meals all prepared for you so that all you had to do was heat and serve, or if you wanted you could choose meals that didn’t need heating. He kept bouncing off the wall that forbids using those benefits from paying for prepared foods, and the argument that if they let him have a waiver, you’d get recipients wanting to go to Wendy’s (literally, they were obsessed with the possibility of people going to Wendy’s) to buy fast food.
I heard that there is a local group that goes to farmer’s markets and is allowed to accept WIC and SNAP and give people tokens they can use to buy from the farmers. You can even give them a donation to enable folks to get matching funds (to help offset the higher cost of farmer’s market goods).
Haven’t finished reading the comments yet, but I have to chime in with my everlasting undying devotion to mochi ice cream. That is all.
@fromafar2013, I spoke quickly without including any nuance. I certainly didn’t mean to criticize you for taking care of your dog’s specific dietary needs! Sorry for that.
@ Viscaria
No worries! I figured it wasn’t meant as anything bad! I feel the same way about people feeding their dogs chocolate or beer because ‘They never got sick from it and they like it!’ -_-;
@falconer a full size Lego house has already been built.
http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/James_May
“The finished house consisted of more than 3.5 million bricks and included two floors, full plumbing and lighting, and LEGO chairs, coffee tables, bathroom fittings, kitchen utensils, and a cat, named Fusker after May’s own cat. ”
Because no house is complete without a cat! All hail the Furrinati!
Not in support of the original guy AT ALL, but if a feminist wants to make a poster mocking a MRA, she should at least “try” to get her grammar right. Your is not the same as “you’re.” When I first saw the poster, I thought that must have been the way the original guy said it. No one mocking someone would be so careless. But I was wrong.
Yeah, they have said we might get another heat wave in March, and the temps are bouncing around at the moment (22 today, 31 by Tuesday, 22 again Wednesday). But the end of February is always something I look forward to.
On the not-being-allowed-to-enjoy-stuff-if-you’re-not-rich topic: there was a survey in the paper the other day saying that more Australians would pay for a holiday than put the money toward retirement. I didn’t read the whole thing because it sounded so fucking stupid. The assumption that the cash for a holiday would make a whole lot of difference to your retirement, for one thing, and that everyone’s got enough money to put away in the first place, was ridiculous, especially given it’s estimated you need something like a million to be a self-funded retiree.
Yeah, I’ve had holidays – overseas, the horror! My super is never going to be enough to live on, and never would have been, because I’ve always been in lowish-paid clerical work. I’ve always known I’d need the pension.
It almost read like someone choosing to have experiences and memories is Not Allowed.
Please, don’t even think of it. Cats need meat to get taurine. They can’t produce it themselves. Vegetarian diet for cats means sending them blind.
titianblue, is Maisie okay? I haven’t checked the open thread yet.
Tarine, taurine, taurine, tauuuuuuuuu-ri-i-ine
I’m begging of you please, cat’s a beef man
Tarine, taurine, taurine, tauuuuuuuuu-ri-i-ine
Please don’t feed veges only because you can
Well played, Kiwi Girl.