Man Boobz’ first FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN THREAD DANCE PARTY is now open for business. Most threads here are pretty open, but this one will be even more so. Talk about whatever you want, link to interesting shit, link to your own blogs, go wild!
Or you can talk about this: Earlier today I was listening to the song Dusseldorf, by La Dusseldorf, one of my favorite Krautrock bands, and I started thinking about bands that write songs referencing their band name in the lyrics and/or the titles of the songs. (In the song “Dusseldorf,” the word “Dusseldorf” is repeated probably a hundred times.) Off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of other bands that have done this:
The Monkees, “Hey hey we’re the Monkees”
Public Image Limited, “Public Image.”
The Fall, “Neighborhood of Infinity,” “Crap Rap 2,” I’m sure others will come to me.
Who else has done this? (I think we should leave out rap, because rappers often mention themselves.)
I asked 13 for his suggestions on electrical engineering pick up lines but he cannot think of any. Of course he also thinks I should get off the computer and get him off. :p
I always liked, “Is that a mirror in your pocket? ‘Cause I can sure see myself in your pants.”
I mean, if I read it I snort, but if someone seriously said it to me … it would not be pleasant.
As for mral, compared to other resident trolls, he’s just as bad. He’s hostile for no reason other than his own paranoia. But he’s a kid, so he could still get help. I dunno whether slapping him with the reality stick helps or not, or just confirms everything he thinks about “bitches.” What he really needs is a therapist.
I mean, they all do, but I don’t know what good it would do for most of them.
But he did need to be kicked in the face for the groping thread. It would give him a little perspective of REAL pain in life.
And also, because god damn it how can i not:
Bad pickup line: “if your right leg were Christmas, and your left leg were New Year’s, could I come up between the holidays?”
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal, and don’t forget to tip.
R.A.M.O.N.E.S – The Ramones
the problem I see with Mr. Al is his absolute refusal to recognize the agency of others. in the groping thread as well as elsewhere, there is no indicator that he views anybody other than himself as not being part of some homogeneous group, whether it’s alphas or bitches or manginas. As has been mentioned by others, the idea that people are individualistic, with different motivations, likes, dislikes, and opinions goes whooshing right by him.
The issue there is that is a common trait of sociopaths, as I understand it.
So basically, I figure that making it plain that his attitudes are manifestly unacceptable is the only thing I can do over the intertrons. Maybe it will help him change, maybe he will just use it as justification for withdrawal and further sulking, but at some point, it has to be his responsibility, yanno?
I don’t feel at all sorry for MRAL. I’m sick of his temper tantrums and his name-calling. Maybe all the negative attention he’s received here will make him rethink his ways. Maybe it’ll just make him go away. I’m fine with either outcome.
A discussion of sexism in the broader culture On the use of the word slut.
It started out as a comment, in part, on the differing morés between left/right on the ways in which the use of slurs is treated, but got more interesting.
BTW, if any of the MRA types who lurk here think they can take the weak tea they bring here over there… I’m nothing compared to some of the commenters at Making Light.
Just letting you know.
crap… damned lack of closing tag.
13 finally gave me a bad pick up line:
“Hey, does this smell like chloroform?”
also, excellent dancing gif, David.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sq8VDXlWQk&w=425&h=349%5D
Living in a Box by Living in a Box off of the album Living in a Box.
Also, does anyone else feel kinda bad about making fun of MRAL
No, not really. I feel bad *for* him, because he’s so young and full of hate. But my pity dries up pretty quickly, as quickly as his ability to empathize with others.
I theorize that his presence on MBZ is the first time he’s really interacted with a bunch of strangers and given his opinions on women, dating and feminism to a non-sympathetic audience (i.e., not an MRA blog or his three friends). People like him don’t change unless they’re repeatedly shown that their ideas are unacceptable – both by just being proven wrong, and also through learning that these ideas will earn you mockery and shunning.
I hope he eventually ‘gets it’ – he’s shown a few glimmers of hope, but then it’s almost like he remembers to be an asshole, and comes up with some gem like feminism being an anti-man hate movement.
I’d like to be the integral to your function so I can lie tangent to your curves.
Tsk, tsk! It’s “I want to be your derivative so I can lie tangent to your curves.”, or “I want to be your integral so I can be the area under your curves.”
D’oh. Math fail >.<
I can’t remember where the fellowpian boobs and brovary thread was, but I wanted to add the boy in the boat. Not a pun, but a man-based term for a female sex organ, so … anyway.
Both Samantha Fox & Lee Aaron had self-referential songs, but that was a very long time ago.
Unfortunately, a new example of actual, real hardship
(as opposed to MRAL’s minor stuff) has happened to a friend of mine and left those of us who know the family reeling too.
Hope you all have a good weekend.
New challenge: try to find a song that syncs up with the dancing guys above!
(The Fall’s “Telephone Thing” does, at least for a couple of bars before drifting out of sync.)
Also, I’m renaming this thread so the party can run all weekend.
So this weekend’s first experiment with a hamburger recipe was not quite a success. No more using sour cream…
Try smooshing up the hamburger with something like terriyaki sauce. It’s worked for me before.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/31/nigella-lawson-baking-feminist-act
“Baking is a Feminist Act.” What do y’all think?
I’m a bio major and the scary thing is that some of those have actually been used on me, I’m going to add more nerdy pickup lines though
you’re so hot you denature my proteins
can I be the phasor to your electron and take you to an excited state?
I want to fondle your vesicles while you caress my golgi body
You’re like telophase, I admire your cleavage
(I actually like this one and my current bf asked me out using it and made me totally melt) You’re so cute you make my zygomaticus muscles contract (the facial muscles that control mouth movement aka smiling like this 🙂 )
If my right leg is the cell wall and my left the membrane, do you want to be the cytoplasm
I also prefer my ribosomes bound…tight. Spin me round with your basal body and make sure it’s turgid.
baby you make my floppy disk turn into a hard drive
What do you say we go back to my room and do some math: Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide your legs, and multiply
@LaPlaceDemon, while I agree with the sentiment that there is nothing wrong or innately anti-feminist about a person choosing to do many of the things considered traditionally feminine, there is a problem with a gendered expectation of activity. And, I think the terms in the title and the way Lawson’s article (I haven’t read the book) is written does suggest a gendered expectation of activity, that baking is desirable as an activity for women precisely because it is a feminine activity, rather than because it is a worthwhile activity for people of all genders that she and some others enjoy. There is nothing antifeminist about liking to bake, but there is nothing antifeminist about hating to bake either. And there certainly is something antifeminist about subtly trying to manipulate women into traditionally feminine activities by saying that they are less feminist if they fail to enjoy them.
@Darksidecat
I didn’t get that impression from the article (haven’t read the book either). I thought the takeaway message was more of a “don’t devalue it simply because it’s stereotypically feminine” and not “hey you all need to do this to be good feminists.”
Particularly these quotes:
“All these silly gender-assigned qualities have just got to go, don’t you think? They’re so tiresome, after all. Straight men are, it seems to me, increasingly fed up with holding up their end of the deal, and would be relieved to be able to cry in public and take care of the house while their female partners work on their career for a while without worrying if they will look soft to their friends.”
“I wish we could take all the traits we think of as “feminine” and “masculine”, toss them on the floor and let each person pick up a few randomly. What would happen? Women CEOs would no longer be “women CEOs” and if one of those women CEOs brought in an elaborate home-baked confection for an office party, her power and respect at the office wouldn’t somehow diminish.”
On the subject of nerdy pickup lines – yes, I had someone honestly use “are you acetylcholine because I’m excited” on me once. It was actually kind of charming…but not as charming as it was cheesy.
On a totally unrelated note: OH MY GOD the new episode of Doctor Who. OH MY GOD.
“I just shat my pants. Can I get into yours?”