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This blog hit a little milestone last night: someone posted the 10,000th comment here. (It was Natasha, actually.) Which means, of course, that if I had a dong for every comment posted here, I could be carrying this lovely 10,000 dong bill in my wallet. In South Vietnam. In 1975.
It also means that this blog is stirring up a lot of discussion. When I first started this blog, most of the comments came from angry manosphere snipers, many of them anonymous. There were also a relative handful of commenters who actually liked what this blog was doing, and who were willing to take on the Army of Doucheness. This relative handful has turned into a nice little community. I hope I can keep you all entertained and/or outraged enough to stick around.
We’re also only a few thousand hits — two or three days — away from another milestone: a quarter of a million page views. Which is really kind of awesome.
Yet I know we could easily reach twice as many readers; maybe five times, maybe even ten. But I kind of need your help for that. Getting this blog linked to — on Reddit, on Twitter, on Facebook, on other blogs, even in comments on other blogs — can dramatically increase the number of visitors on any given day. And every time this blog reaches new readers, some stick around.
So to those of you who have been Tweeting and Redditing (and commenting about, and StumbleUpon-ing) Man Boobz, I thank you. Seriously. Please do it more, more, more! And if you haven’t yet, and you like this blog, please start! The little buttons on the bottom of each post make it pretty straightforward. (If you post it on Reddit, send me a link or post it in a comment and I’ll go vote the submission up.)
One more thing: T-shirts, after a long delay on my part, are coming! (And coffee mugs, and stickers, and who knows what else.) Not immediately, but pretty soon, with the generous artistic assistance of Shaenon and JohnnyKaje. The first two: “we hunted the mammoth to feed you” and “underneath that fun cupcake is a MONSTER.” My plan is to sell some of them at cost, and others for $5 or $10 above cost, with the profits going 100% to a well-run, appropriate charity. Something like that. Still working out the details. If you have thoughts about a good charity, let me know.
So anyway, that’s the Man Boobz news. Discuss!
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>Congratulations!My charity suggestion would be a men's domestic violence shelter or a prostate cancer research fund to show your detractors what a vicious bunch of man-haters we feminists aren't. 'Everyman' is a reputable UK charity focusing on male cancers, but your readership might prefer a US or international charity.Ooh! This gives me an idea! Have you heard of MO-vember, when men grow sponsored moustaches for men's health charities? How about a bunch of feminists doing a sponsored leg hair growing? It would annoy all the right people in a good cause.
>Congrats David.I've shared this blog with all my online friends. It's become a must stop on my daily rounds of the internets.Can't wait for the t-shirts! Heck – I might need a new coffee mug for work. LOL.
>Oh – and I'm all for the idea Miss Prism has in regards to choice of charities.
>G'job, David. Enjoy your ten thousand dongs.My charity suggestion would be a men's domestic violence shelter or a prostate cancer research fund to show your detractors what a vicious bunch of man-haters we feminists aren't. 'Everyman' is a reputable UK charity focusing on male cancers, but your readership might prefer a US or international charity.Let me channel the second wave for a second here: Men's issues get enough attention/money in our society. Your suggestion is basically to give in to MRA whining that men aren't the sole focus of attention anymore, and in the process legitimize that whining.David: If it were me I'd go with ACCION, which is a third-world microfinance charity, but it actually puts a significant amount of effort into financially empowering women specifically, so it would be kind of fitting. But that's me.
>How about sending it just to domestic violence shelters in general? That way you can say that you are helping men, so they can quit their whining, but it also helps women
>"…I hope I can keep you all entertained and/or outraged enough to stick around…"Your outrages are legion.
>I'm thinking Planned Parenthood might be a good charity for this.
>@triplanetary–"Men's issues get enough attention/money in our society."How small minded and hateful. @David,If you are going to give something to charity, may I suggest that something gender neutral might be in your best interests? Or perhaps consider making it privately, without publishing it? No matter what you do here, you're going to take shit…I kinda feel for you actually.
>"Men's issues get enough attention/money in our society."How small minded and hateful. No, it's a recognition of reality. I'm all for men's issues and women's issues getting equal attention, but in our present social atmosphere, men's issues get far more.If you are going to give something to charity, may I suggest that something gender neutral might be in your best interests?Well, he already suggested Planned Parenthood. PP provides sexual health services to both men and women.
>PP works for me. I won't quibble.
>I like the idea of giving it to PP
>Congratulations, David. Thanks for everything!
>I second PP. Gender neutral, and they need all the support they can get.
>Thanks for a great blog.Also, you could do an equal amount of money to both an organization specifically meant to help men and one meant to help women. Or give about 25% more (whatever the amount of difference in pay that men get compared to women) to the charity for women? Personally, though, I think the best charity would have to do with domestic violence since the whole blog is about violence – not just physical, but emotional too.
>Three cheers for Natasha!
>triplanetary the misandrist bigot said:"Let me channel the second wave for a second here: Men's issues get enough attention/money in our society"LOLDoes this equal getting less funds for men's health?I guess that's equality in a feminist world. As long as men are not on top, it's all ok."our suggestion is basically to give in to MRA whining that men aren't the sole focus of attention anymore"When were er ever the sole focus on attention? Give some examples please.Briget Said:How about sending it just to domestic violence shelters in general? That way you can say that you are helping men, so they can quit their whining, but it also helps womenSpoken from a true bigot! Yes, how dare men whine about getting less help compared to women in DV. If it was the other way around, this whining would magically become validated.And of course, it's okay for a movement that's in favour of women to whine 24/7 365 days a year for decades. But not ok for men to whine about male issues. Task tasktriplanetary the misandrist bigot also said:"I'm all for men's issues and women's issues getting equal attention, but in our present social atmosphere, men's issues get far more."So you are saying that male DV and rape victims get more attention than female victims? ROFLIt's funny because men males complain about male issues, most of the time, they get belittled and told to man-up and stop been whining pussies.Women hardly or never face any such intimidation when they complain about female issues. Women can complain at any given time and place and it will be acceptable.
>You're right, women who attempt to exercise their rights never face intimidation…http://i52.tinypic.com/ogja04.jpgOh, right.
>It's funny because men males complain about male issues, most of the time, they get belittled and told to man-up and stop been whining pussies.Women hardly or never face any such intimidation when they complain about female issues. Women can complain at any given time and place and it will be acceptable. I'm thinking that if being made fun of–on the internet, no less–for being a whiner is your idea of intimidation, then maybe you really are a whiner.FWIW, I would never call you a pussy, as pussies are generally quite pleasant.
>FWIW, I would never call you a pussy, as pussies are generally quite pleasant.You mean, like… cats or vaginas?Actually there's no point answering, because they're both pleasant. I like stroking their hair. Cats, I mean.Also vaginas.
>Both/and, triplanetary, both/and.
>> I'm thinking that if being made fun of–on the internet, no less–for being a whiner is your idea of intimidation, then you really are a whiner.FTFY
>I'm one of the maniacs. So I'm trying to post my first comment here with my new account. My other one was flagged off YouTube and soo…what they do is disable the whole google account, I have no idea why. So my blog and name for commenting here, gone… OK so anyway… you'll see who I am because I have the same pic and similar screen name. This blog has helped me though some hard times, it's actually emotionally painful to be faced with such abusive thinking so far from reality. It's the pain of racism, really, so this blog of course is like The Daily Show after being gaslit by rethuglicans, (or whoever anymore, if you know what I mean), thanks for the rally to restore sanity that I find here in this sanctuary.
>nick, I never said the victims had no right to complain. They have EVERY single right to complain. As someone who is a victim of domestic violence I would never belittle anybody who has gone through that. I was actually talking about you and wytch who complain about everything we do saying that it is never good enough. Rereading my comment I realize that my wording made it seem otherwise and for that I apologize. Nobody deserves to be the victim of DV and any victim of such a terrible crime needs our full support.
>I'm still pulling for the "Bad Boy Cock Carousel" t-shirt.
>Angry manosphere snipers? What kind of victimhood-obsessed hyperbole is this? You ADVERTISED this blog in the manosphere and I think you knew full well what the results would be, although I also think you were disappointed at how civil the comments were on the whole and at the lack of death threats and other things that could make you look like a martyr. You got the attention you wanted, now stop whining about it. If you keep being a good little sycophant, Amanda Marcotte just might let you shine her shoes.