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?“)
Ami: What… he tried to compare sexual preference to theft? The mind boggles.
Ami – I’m not sure if he’s 100% banned from No Seriously. He’s banned from my posts, but as far as I know he’s not banned in general.
He’s on the express train to Bantown, though. I mean, people are trying to have grownup discussions on that blog.
Yup xD He said that if you believe homosexuality is not a “choice” but “biological” (my question would have been how he’s defining homosexuality? o_O ) then therefore thieves are biological too and they can’t help but steal… xD (apparently being gay and being a rapist is like tied together now xD)
I just read the piece from the paper.. Zink was a special one, wasn’t he.
I’d say, from the evidence, he’s more a Mellar than an NWO.
I don’t know. Meller likes to pretend he luuuuuurves wimmen, provided they stay in their place, whereas Zink just hates them all, period. I have to give Zink credit for honesty.
Actually, the MRA he most reminds me of is Peter Andrew Whatsit, but I don’t think he’s ever trolled here.
Peter Andrew Nolan, wannabe legal authority and all around crook.
But Mellar goes on about how stupid they are, and flighty, and not really more than children.
As to his love… that would be the love that thinks they should all be killed and replaced with sexbots and uterine replicators (save for a few, of the really sexy ones that can be kept as slaves; a la Gor).
So… he knows religion is a choice too, right?
So choice is something we can ban, and religion is a choice…
Hm. I must be getting Meller confused with somebody else. Wasn’t there another troll who kept insisting he loved women?
@speedlines Maybe Tit for Tat? I recall him mentioning he had a wife and child, and yet he’s said some really vile stuff.
Boy they sure knew how to write obituaries back in the day…Mr. Zink has been
assiduous in his devotions to his wife, and was at her bedside when she
passed away.
His was a bit different: T.M. Zink had many friends and many enemies.
Moreover…. he remarried; sometime between his first wife’s death (1910) and his demise.
And, at the last of the obit… six years before he died; so his antipathy was that strong, yet he married again.
One wonders why.
Well, according to my Guide to All Things Involving Old People, Lucy Maud Montgomery, probably because it was cheaper then getting a housekeeper.
I wonder who was the early 1900s version of me? XD
^Dorothy Parker?
@ion
aww to bad I thought I could troll you for a bit longer.
@ami
well said
Dude, Zink married TWICE? It’s like… women are completely evil and useless, unless they make me a sammich. And even then evil. I don’t even know what to say to that.
It says a lot about male authority and female compliance in that era that a man like this could even marry once, never mind twice. And indeed, that he would want to.
Guys…what do you call it when WP necro’s a thread by randomly putting it in the top posts widgets? This has been an interesting little read, but I was expecting a necromancer at the end…which I guess is me now…
Bwahahaha, I see those black robes you’re wearing, Argenti!
WP seems to do that on other blogs, too. I read what I thought was a current post on HaT yesterday, but it was a year old. Hadn’t been necroed, either, ‘cos comments were long closed.
Ermagerd speaking of necros, love the idea that Owly has been a zombie since 1930. It would explain so much.
Wouldn’t it just?! Also *looks down* does a black undershirt and black lounge pants combo count as robes?
Oh goodness, this only has two pages of comments! I am so reading all of it. And Raoul was apparently on and off for awhile, he was around last summer (ignore him, it’s better for your blood pressure)
Totally. They’re the informal “undress” version.