MRA: Thomas Ball is no martyr

Guys, I think NWO is developing a conspiracy theory…about US!

How else do you explain the Feministe comment? He thinks Feministe foots Manboobz’ bills. What bills, you might ask, since David says this site costs him nothing?

Why, all of US, you see. The evil richy-rich OverLadies of Feministe are *clearly* paying all of us exorbitant sums to make the Manosphere look bad online. Or something. Look, who understands why they’re paying us? As long as it’s enough for a pedicure or two a day that’s all we care about, since we just manipulate betas into paying for our basic needs in between stints on the alpha cock carousel and riding around in elevators being bitches.

*sigh*…Since we’re all out in the open, on behalf of Ami, BrettK, Spear, and all other Canadian Manboobz, I hereby request a 20% bonus. We haven’t gotten a cheque in WEEKS due to the postal strike.

@KristinMH you can play w/e cards you want in any deck… tho ppl tend to stick to a playing 1-3 colours (b/c otherwise it’s hard to handle the mana)… some ppl play themed decks (knights, goblins, etc) and sometimes ppl try to do a story theme deck tho more for fun than effectiveness (i did that once xD )

magyc sets didn’t use to involve elaborate backstories, but they’ve evolved so every set has it’s own story (and they write novels about them xD )

I’ve always liked the idea of telling a story THRU the cards, thru the artwork chosen and in the flavor text… ppl get an idea of the world, and start filling in the blanks in between (kinda like not showing the whole monster in a horror movie) :3 and that’s what I’m trying to do here

Kristin, I based the story on Ami’s cards, and on the backstory she created for them. All the basic concepts are hers. I don’t know if a coherent backstory is SOP for sets of Magic cards, that’s Ami’s speciality.

If you’re into creative writing, you should write your own story. It’s a lot of fun, and I’ll be writing part 2 of mine Real Soon Now.

Force of habit, Ami.

Hey The Zeta Male contacted me on my blog, to explain his position (and clarify it) on Ball and correct me about the definition of Zeta Male… he seems very nice 🙂 And I appreciate having the definition corrected (i presume this is about the cards) :]

What mra’s keep forgetting is child support and divorces are most often worked out without even going to court. When our kids were young both my wife and I were happy to pay child support to our ex spouses….why? Because it was in the best interest of our children for them to be in the care of their primary caregiver instead of a live-in nanny and frankly in the scheme of things it was cheaper. Childcare is not free, it’s a simple thing that mra’s have no concept of.

I have a friend with 50/50 joint custody whose a sales regional manager. He is grateful to his staff that they do not snitch on him for bringing his kid to meetings etc. If he was just a sales person he would have lost his job because of the demands of parenting. KIds are not dogs that you can just leave in the yard all day while you are at work.

And Ami I do think I’m the perfect example of the Rockerfeller type who is financing feminism in my grand scheme to take over the world. Forget that my wife who is a real estate developer also runs a non-profit 37 apartment for men that were homeless. I’m quite thin but would be ok being portrayed as the fat cat. One of our daughters is the geek child heavily into gaming… I think she’d be impressed that dad had a card.

@SallyStrange…All you ever offer is hatred, mockery and misandry. I doubt that’ll ever change.

@Pam …Gender roles aren’t viewed thru a narrow lens, they’re a fact of life. You’re simply trying to legitimize you beloved LGBTQ constuct. No one should ever get any “leave” or “mandatory time” or anything from the State for childcare/rearing of any kind.

@Ami Angelwings…There simply is natural gender roles, just because you/feminists want to reconstruct society into an unnatural communist, genderless society, doesn’t make it so. The only hardship men face is laws endorsed by women and the hatred of men, (misandry), so prevelant in society. The problem is the “gender roles” it’s your endorsement of hatred for being born a man.

@Skyal…Your hatred rant is truely epic. Your entire screed was pure feminism. Tell me does the child’s rights include equal access to both parents? Or is a father only good for the cash?

@kirbywarp…Gender isn’t neutral, so when someone makes that point, whatever point they follow up with is based on an error.

@Victoria von Syrus…In the 17.4% that you site that the father was given primary custody; this was predicated on the womans say so. Her word in court is what allowed that to occur. Women get default custody in any dispute. Men have to fight for custody in any dispute. This can easily be seen by the fact that if a dispute takes place the child/children remain in “her” custody until the “battle” is over. Also your use of “hir” as a genderless automaton is meaningless and indicitive of feminist-speak.

@Captain Bathrobe…Take all money out of the equation. Equal custody. Period. If you can’t do that, than you believe only women are entitled to having children as part of “their” family.

I’m amused he’s responding to me again xD He runs so hot and cold xD I’m not reading what you’re saying cuz you write funny! ARGH STOP TALKING ABOUT ME FINE RAWRRR!!!! xD I love how I got into his head so fast xD

The problem is the “gender roles” it’s your endorsement of hatred for being born a man.

o_O Spearhafoc, can you clean that sentence up a bit so I understand what he means?

I’m trying to parse it…

ok does he mean that The problem is that the IDEA of “gender roles” is proof of my endorsement of hatred of men? o_O Or is he referring to something trans related? o_O

Hay, NWO what are natural gender roles? Do they apply wholesale? 😮 And if they’re not taught, how do we know them? Are they passed thru the genetics? o_O So everybody with XY should have similar likes/dislikes/etc? o_o

Can you give us a comprehensive list of what’s fixed “natural” gender roles for men and women? Like specific, not general … b/c I know you like to be vague cuz you’re afraid of being pinned down xD

Also if ppl naturally dun want to do things, why are they doing it? 😮

Since you’ve decided you can read me suddenly again xD I’m going to take advantage of it :] You talk a lot but you always dance around how the world actually works : So I rly want to know, lay it out, and then we can understand 🙂

@Victoria von Syrus…In the 17.4% that you site that the father was given primary custody; this was predicated on the womans say so. Her word in court is what allowed that to occur. Women get default custody in any dispute. Men have to fight for custody in any dispute. This can easily be seen by the fact that if a dispute takes place the child/children remain in “her” custody until the “battle” is over. Also your use of “hir” as a genderless automaton is meaningless and indicitive of feminist-speak.

Just because you really really really want it to be true doesn’t mean that it actually is true. If you want me to believe that a father only gets primary custody when the mother grants it, you had damn well better be able to back that up with a reputable source. Otherwise, you’re just a lying liar who lies. And hates women.

And I am experimenting with ‘hir’ as a more elegant way of saying ‘his or her’. I find ‘his or her’ to be an inelegant word. Usually I try and alternate ‘his’ and ‘her’ in situations where gender is unimportant, like in technical writing. But in situations like this, talking about custody and parenting, gender is sometimes important, and so ‘his or her’ becomes necessary to avoid unnecessarily gendering the language, or making an implication I don’t mean to make. But ‘his or her’ is fairly inelegant, so I’m experimenting with ‘hir’.

But you obviously don’t give two rusted farthings about elegance in your writing.

Damn, I didn’t get a mention again. 🙁

Slavey, what if the divorced parents live in different states? Wouldn’t that effect custody?

Ami & Kirby, I REALLY hope Slavey actually tells us what he thinks about gender. *grabs popcorn*

@Ami: Dun keep all the trolls to yourself! I wanna play with them too! :'(