This comment didn’t get a ton of upvotes in r/mr, but it was just too idiotic to ignore:
Thanks, r/againstmensrights for pointing this one out!
We Hunted The MammothBucking the Backlash
We Hunted The MammothThis comment didn’t get a ton of upvotes in r/mr, but it was just too idiotic to ignore:
Thanks, r/againstmensrights for pointing this one out!
…and in other news, last night I snuggled with my boy and talked about existentialism and Occupy Wall Street and xkcd and no services were exchanged at all.
^ Sounds nice!
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is snuggling.
Thanx for letting me know about cocker spaniels, Dracula, in your post of 4October 2011@ 9:15 pm. I am not a dog-breeder and didn’t know about complications.
If this is true, and they are prone to a kind of “rage syndrome” against their owners, that is something that I can live without! There are many other soft, silky, and pettable dogs which I am sure are much more trainable and docile, and will respond to love with love. Scratch cocker spaniels, despite their soft fur, and replace them with more tractable and tame breeds!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller
I’m actually finding David’s opinions on pets oddly instructive, since he seems to think of women as a sort of super-pet that can do things that ordinary pets can’t. It is interesting that he seems to place so much emphasis on pets being tractable – it’s weird, but at least he’s consistent I guess.
Now me? If i had unlimited space and a huge yard and a schedule that would allow for it, I’d get either an Akita, a Husky, or a Tibetan Mastiff. I like dogs that aren’t very tractable.
(I also prefer dogs that are huge, but if I had to get a little dog I’d get a Shiba Ainu since they’re basically mini Akitas with all the attitude of their bigger cousins, and a similar look.) I don’t want a furry slave – I want a companion that deserves respect just as much as I do. Pets that are total pushovers tend to bore me (I don’t dislike them, I just lose interest quickly). I prefer the companionship of a creature whose respect and loyalty I have to earn.
I think this is a pretty neat little window into wildly different worldviews.
Also, dog owners – is there any polite and non-creepy way to volunteer to help walk a neighbor’s dog? There’s a guy in my neighborhood who has a gorgeous Husky and I see them out and about a lot, often either running or with the guy on a bike and the dog running. Since I work from home I could in theory be available to take a dog out for a run during the day, and a high energy dog would probably appreciate it, but I don’t really know this guy and it seems a bit weird to just go “hey, dude, can I play with your dog while you’re at work?”.
And DKM has moved into the realm of too much fucking information. Dude, what you do on your own time is your own business, but for the love of all the gods, not everyone wants to know about your fur obsession or whateverthefuck is wrong with you.
CassandraSays: I really have no idea what a non-awkward approach to that situation would be. I suppose if you got to know the guy better you could ask if he ever needed help with the dog. But hey, if you can’t play with the neighbor’s dog, you could try volunteering at a shelter or something.
Cassandra, I wouldn’t say it out of the blue, but if you’ve seen him around a lot of times and have an acquaintance with him and have petted his dog/mentioned you like his dog previously, I as a pet owner wouldn’t find it odd for someone who likes my dog to offer to play with it, as long as you don’t imply that the owner is taking inadequate care of it.
@ katz – Thanks. I think the guy is taking great care of the dog – dog seems happy, is well groomed and well socialized, etc. I just really want to play with it…and I figure with a Husky there’s pretty much no such thing as too much exercise.
DKM likes his women widdling and shedding everywhere, and scattering pellets around the room. Whatever floats your boat, man.
I wonder if he likes them constantly quivering like a nervous chihuahua too.
And given that cocker spaniels also have a reputation for peeing on the carpet…
Slightly OT but the most mean-spirited dog I’ve ever met was a Maltese terrier. In theory that dog is the greeter at a clothing store in San Francisco. What I’m not sure about is why a store would want a furry greeter that growls at everyone who walks in the door, barks whenever the staff try to talk to customers, and generally acts like a spoiled brat.
I won’t put my bag on the floor there because I fully expect the dog to pee on it. That, I think, is the companion that our friend David deserves.
@Cassandra: The most unpleasant dog I ever met was a Yorkie who belonged to a drycleaner I used to go to. It certainly looked soft and silky, but I never touched it, since it growled and barked at everyone who came in the store. I guess if your dog weighs less than 5 pounds it’s not exactly a danger to others, but still.
@ kristin – Yorkies are weird. I’ve met some that were lovely, but there do seem to be an awful lot of them that are mean snarly passive-aggressive little things. A friend of my Mum’s had one who used to wait by the door till she came home and then run and pee in the middle of the kitchen table to demonstrate his displeasure at her having gone out without him for a while.
Anyone else get the feeling that if Meller actually managed to snare the quiet young kitchen slave of his dreams, he wouldn’t be even remotely equipped to handle the responsibility of caring for someone that depended on him as completely as he desires?
To be honest, I have a feeling that any woman who found herself living with him would develop a temperament much like the nasty little handbag dogs mentioned above. An attitude like his could sour even the sweetest personality over time.
I used think I’d hate Yorkies until one my housemates got a couple. They’re a little high strung, but they’re loads of fun. Lots of energy, like most terriers.
True enough. I think he fails to realize that men like him are no small part of what made feminism necessary to begin with.
I’m imagining DKM in his super-villian secret hideout (in a live volcano, natch), stroking a cat and saying “yessss, so soft, so silky, so nice…just like my ideal woman. And, as soon as the plans are complete, she will be mine! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Then he issues a ransom demand for “one…million…dollars” and goes off to feed his sharks with the laser beams on their heads.
With a lot of small dogs I think it has to be the way people are raising them that turns so many of them into unpleasant creatures. The people I know with little dogs that just treat them like, you know, dogs, always seem to end up with adult dogs that are perfectly fine.
@ CB – And then the cat bites him, and he decides that since it’s a female cat this is just more proof that all women are inherently vicious.
Meanwhile the cat is trying to figure out how to make the laser-enhanced sharks use the lasers to open cans of food for her.
Yeah, terriers need a lot of socializing and a lot of play if you want to avoid their being mean-spirited. They were bred for size (small) intelligence and aggression. Helps them kill rats.
Small dogs vary a lot, but I do find that most of them are nearly impossible to train, so it seems like you have to just pick a dog that already has mannerisms you like (and then treat it appropriately), rather than hoping to make a lot of progress changing its behavior.