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Douchebags of History: T.M. Zink and the Zink Womanless Library

Today we celebrate one of history’s greatest, the largely unheralded misogynist douchebag T.M. Zink, who managed to stick it to the ladies even after he died. As Time magazine reported shortly after his death in 1930:

At Le Mars, Iowa, the probated will of T. M. Zink, deceased attorney, revealed:1) His $100,000 estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman’s name, over whose portal will blaze: “No Women Admitted”; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow not 1¢.

As he explained in his will:

My intense hatred of women is not of recent origin or development nor based upon any personal differences I ever had with them but is the result of my experiences with women, observations of them and study of all literatures and philosophical works.

2005 has come and gone and sadly, at least from the point of view of misogynist bibliophiles, the Zink Womanless Library was never built. As a piece in The Guardian noted, his family successfully challenged the will, I’m guessing on the grounds of Quando podeces te regi eorum fecerunt?  (“When did you become king of the assholes?“)

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Ami Angelwings
13 years ago

Catching up on all the card requests… any I missed ? xD

PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
13 years ago

I wonder how much it would cost to make these into real cards?

Plymouth
Plymouth
13 years ago
Ami Angelwings
13 years ago

You could print these out and glue them onto Magic card commons… (my friends used to do this)… >_>

PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
13 years ago

I meant professionally made-I am sure we could figure something out. *hmmms*

Ami Angelwings
13 years ago

Oh… that may be more tricky, esp since none of this art is mine xD

PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
PosterformerlyknownasElizabeth
13 years ago

that would be a problem

Nobby
Nobby
13 years ago

@Ami Me! can I request a card?

And you could probably print them, surely if you don’t sell them they’re fine. Heck, even sell them, it might be covered under parody. Either that or just put a call out for artists to help. I’m sure you could find a few willing.

Also, if this gets caught in moderation, it’s totally me, David. just posting from a mobile phone and I’m not sure how to sign in.

Nobby
Nobby
13 years ago

@Ami Me! Can I request a card?

And you shouldn’t have a problem printing them, unless you start selling them. Even then you might be covered by parody, but that gets tricky fast. But in that case you could always put a call out for artists and see what happens. You could probably get a few at least, especially if proceeds were donated somewhere.

And you can kill the other comment in moderation, David. i figured it out. Though my pic may be screwed up. Ah, whatever. Crazy smartphones.

Nobby
Nobby
13 years ago

Oor… I’ll just double post. Sorry!

Ion
Ion
13 years ago

Ion, we get it, we’re all just a bunch of big nerds who think too much. Thank goodness you have enough time to take out of your busy schedule of doing cool things and hanging out with cool people to come and tell us that.

Before you get too pleased with yourself for that oh-so-witty reply, consider the amount of time I spend posting here, and the amount of time you people spend replying to me. In other words, your statement might have been intended as sarcasm, but it’s pretty much true.

While you’re at it though, maybe you could spare us another moment and explain to us why, if you Real Men™ are so superior to women and all of us guys who are their “mangina lapdogs”, why is it you’ve lost so much ground? Thanks in advance.

Only in your head, dude. Plus you assume I care about ‘winning’ internet arguments as much as you do. As opposed to write a couple of paragraphs and watch you fall all over each other in your rush to prove me wrong.

But maybe I should start arguing seriously… “sharpen my skills” as you all claim… never know when being a pretentious know-it-all bore could come in handy. 😛

caseymordred
caseymordred
13 years ago

I’ll tell you why so many men are dismissive of female authors.

It is because men know that a book written by a woman author might condone or encourage impiety towards the male gender on the part of characters. In other words, they see misandry around every corner.

I use misandry instead of feminism because as some would explain to me, as far as they’re concerned, some church going tradcons making jokes at the expense of men at after service tea and donuts is no different than radfems who write bitterly about men either.

So to them, it’s all to avoid that women can and will come to their own views of men, be it favorable or unfavorable.

mind control beams
mind control beams
13 years ago

@ Ion: Haha, that’s a good one. “I COULD do elementary logic and basic consistency if I WANTED to, but you people are just not worth all the effort it takes.” Maybe NWOslave could take a cue from you and say that his atrocious spelling is justified because “this isn’t grammar class”.

I’ll grant you that making a modest effort at integrity is more boring than saying whatever you feel like, regardless of whether it’s true or in contradiction to what you said ten minutes ago. It has its own merits, though.

Jumbofish
Jumbofish
13 years ago

Summary of ions posts: (the passive aggressive version in the honor of ion)

Why do you guys post here, your wasting your time?
You all are cat owning, basement dwelling losers.
Oh so you think your better than me.
I’m neutral I swear.
I could argue and pwn you all if I wanted.. but that would be a waste of time.
you’re so immature unlike me.
you guys think your funny but your not.
at least I’m not X.
how dare you take serious issues seriously.
I’m better than all you because I don’t care.
*sticks out tongue* *wanks*
links to tvtropes?
(the occasional on topic response)

Did I miss anything?

Oh ion wanna have a passive aggressive fight…..on the internet?

Oh wait that would be a waste of time after all, you wouldn’t want to waste your god like abilities posting on this measly unimportant site…Oh wait you do.

caseymordred
caseymordred
13 years ago

Speaking of tvtropes…

One of my new pet peeves is the Courtly Love trope.

It sounds romantic, but it could be easily used by men to harbor affection without the risk of facing rejection by a woman. Even if he would never harm a woman, he’s clearly trying to make an end run around a woman’s power to reject him, instead of facing it like a man and taking it.

Ion
Ion
13 years ago

Summary of jumbofish’s posts: I am offended by a children’s cartoon show because it’s not politically correct enough for me and my life’s purpose is to be chronically offended. Also, my avatar apparently shows a woman giving oral sex to a rabbit.

But I guess you don’t want to waste your godlike arguing abilities on a measly unimportant troll like me… oh wait, you do.

Jumbofish
Jumbofish
13 years ago

Well I’ll take your response as a yes so
THE FIGHT IS ON

Can’t you be a bit more creative than copying my post jeez. Points for trying because its difficult to criticize me when I haven’t post a lot.
(the rabbit one was funny I’ll give you that)

Well since were on a roll I’ll stick with the pattern I guess

what ion thinks:
rabbits have genitalia on their chest
tvtropes is based on reality
passive aggressive remarks make you a cool kid? and smart?
there has never been or will be any good women writers ever
no seriously EVER, don’t even give him examples HE IS ALWAYS RIGHT
making fun of others smart remarks makes you smart?
can’t think of you own jabs? Steal um’
logic is not necessary
cartoon/animations are only for kids
posting on a site to complain about posting on said site is not hypocritical

also arguing? if your referring to debating I have never debated here ever unless you consider this debating(I don’t). Another thing, I never considered you a measly troll some others did but not me, don’t put words in my mouth.

You don’t seem to get the joke in the last sentence. I used your own hypocritical position to make a point; you said you think this site is pointless and no one should waste their time posting here yet you do just that. But that statement makes no sense if you turn it around and use it on me because I never supported that position to begin with (to clarify I don’t debate on this site nor did I ever consider talking to you pointless). Try to think a bit before posting and jabbing at meh.

Oh I find it funny you paradied the parady of yourself.

LESS EXPLANTION MORE PASSIVE AGRESSIVE REMARKS IN THE FUTURE GRR

Jumbofish
Jumbofish
13 years ago

@caseymordred
are you referring to this?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheArtOfCourtlyLove

If you are I don’t quite understand what you’re saying.

“essay that his “Rules of Love” are not relevant to real-life relationships; indeed, in the context of a real relationship, many of them would be quite nonsensical, especially given the prevalent social atmosphere of the time. Rather, the ‘Rules of Love’ are a tongue-in-cheek catalogue of some of the tropes common in romances and tales of courtly love of the time period”

He didn’t make it romantic, it was pointing out the flaws of the romances in novels at the time.

I think I ‘m either misinterpreting what your saying or you were referring to something else.

so confused @_@

Jumbofish
Jumbofish
13 years ago

thanks. sorry I was holding an idiot ball *drops ball* hopefully there will be no more stupidity on my part (hopefully).

Anyway, yeah I see what you mean.

I liked how at the bottom it said
“Please do not mistake for Courtney Love (who is pretty much in a polar opposite position of this trope).” which is exactly what I did.

Kave
Kave
13 years ago

Ion

Back in the 90’s if someone was in a chatroom all day you knew that they must for one reason or another be housebound. With today’s technology people can be posting while riding a bus and if my youngest is any example even sitting at a family dinner.

So your loser comments are null and void. However they do account for something, namely projection.

Why are you here Ion? While I don’t have the time to be a regular (and I wish I was here when NWO had his melt down, Ami I swear I would have hired someone to track that little pathetic asshole down and….) I certainly have good reason to be here.

So what’s your reason Ion that you spend hours posting on a site where you are in complete disagreement with the sites purpose?

Kave
Kave
13 years ago

P.S My son who spends hours on social media is also a MMA fighter… a very good one (not what you wish for your kid but it’s his thing so we’re proud). He’d love to be put in a room with five or so mra’s to revenge his cousins. I’m just saying.

katz
13 years ago

Also Ion can’t tell the difference between one person posting 24/7 and dozens of people who happen to live in different time zones.

katz
13 years ago

Ami: I demand a “rabbit chest genitalia” card.

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