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, what the hell, fourth: I do not get PMS. I have a condition called dysmennorhea, which causes multiple physical symptoms including excruciating cramps, but not PMS. I treat you like an ignorant douchenozzle (note, not an illiterate one) because that’s exactly what you are. My mental condition has nothing to do with it.
What’s on your reading list, DKM? The front page of my Kindle reading list includes: Rather more fanfic that I’d like to admit, a couple of Vorkosigan compilations that I’m re-reading, a rather interesting steampunk YA novel called The Girl in the Steel Corset, and the latest Russell-Holmes book and short story by Laurie R. King. There are almost 400 books on my Kindle, and except for a few I keep there for reference, I’ve read ever. single. one. Within the last year or two.
@ Shora – I wonder if he’s drunk commenting? It would explain so much.
CassandraSays: Or commenting while tripping? I doubt stoned, he’d make much more sense, in a rambling, where are the doritos sort of way.
Actually I’m starting to wonder if he’s really elderly and the incoherence is the result of dementia. That’s the one thing that might make me feel guilty about being mean to him.
I’m highly literate, but evidently can’t type. That should read: every. single. one.
Shora, Thank you for ascribing divine wisdom and power to l’il ole me! I didn’t–never would, and never could–design a planet, and its life thereon, that had most of its (non-microbial) lifeforms bigendered since the Beginning!
Take it up with Him, at a later date! Until then, it is worth my while, along with everyone elses, to go along, at least in a general way, with the observation “Man and Woman created He them…” and make the best of it from there. There are certainly enough mutuality and complementarity in both sexes to make it enjoyable, pleasurable, and worthwhile for us al!
There are only two sexes, not because I say so, but because the good Lord wanted it that way! If it would make you feel any better, I will be glad to assign you, along with the other man-hating harpies here on manboobz,com an “honorary” third-sex status, although it won’t mean anything to anybody but youall!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K.Meller
CassandraSays: I don’t know how typical my grandma was, but she never really rambled as her Alzheimer’s got worse. What she said started having less and less connection to common reality, but she didn’t ramble. And for some reason, she was convinced that my sister had triplets. She would always chide her for only bringing one over at a time.
DKM: If you were as well-read as you claim, you might realize that there are several translations of the Bible, and the people going back to the original languages have made some interesting discoveries. For instance, the ‘suffer not a witch to live’ line actually says ‘suffer not a poisoner to live. Quoting such a suspect source as the be-all and end-all of gender relations might not be the best idea.
DKM; I said two genders, not two sexes. There’s a difference.
Also, I am agnostic (leaning athiest) so you will have to excuse me if I don’t accept “God did it!” as a proper argument.
Ever crack open a genetics textbook? Ever hear of intersex people? Things go wonky with biological sex all the time. The world isn’t as simple as XX and XY, just as the world isn’t as simple as “Women and men compliment each other in THESE specific ways, and also women aren’t as good and stuff.”
I don’t want honorary third gender. I am a woman. There are people who define their gender outside the binary, however, and I’m not going to sit here and pretend they don’t exist, or act like they’re not as good as binary-identified people.
KathleenB and CassandraSays–
Girlybooks and “chicklit” don’t count! When I talk about books (or periodicals) I have read, I mean REAL books, not stuff good only for being made-for-TV-movies. Real Books are books like “Theory and History” by Ludwig von Mises discussing why over-reliance on empirical data and statistics is inappropriate for understanding human society, ‘Meltdown’ by Tom Woods, giving an explanation of what happened in 2008, why it happened when it did , how banking policies initiated by the Federal Reserve made it logically INEVITABLE, and why another, and probably larger, correction is now (Oct 2011) in the works. “Envy’, by Helmut Schoeck, discussing how envy (resentment over differences in ability or circumstances) develops, spreads, and eventually poisons human society. I also treated myself to Murray Rothbard’s collection of delightful essays ‘Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and other Essays’ and his equally thought provoking essays “What has the Government Done to Our Money” and ‘Wall Street and American Foreign Policy”.
Back in the ’70s, I also treated myself to books–which I still read today–of the late Antony C. Sutton, G. William Domhoff, and Carl Oglesby, ‘The Yankee and Cowboy War’.
I have also read critical works on “Global Warming”, the Big Bang theory, and as many of Thomas Szasz’s criticisms of psychiatry as I could get my hands on, for starters. I could go on, but I think that I have made my point. The world consists of a heckuva lot more than womantrouble and girlykvetch, and I–like most literate people–devote myself far more to REAL issues than media-driven, politically hyped trash like “oppression of women”, “gay marriage”, how the driving gasoline powered autos in LA somehow is melting the polar ice caps,or whether criticism of the black jerk in the White House is “motivated by ‘racism” or not”.
Fuck yeah! (Nope, nothing substantive to say. Carry on. :D)
How cute that David thinks we all read chicklit. Even cuter given the fact that I’m a published writer and he has yet to master the basic elements of English grammar and punctuation.
@Kathleen – My family has been spared from dementia thus far, so I’ll bow to your experience and return to my theory that our friend David is drunk.
Mr. Meller, I think we might have something of a misunderstanding here. It’s not that people don’t understand your words when say things like “I don’t condone violence, but [insert excuse].”, or “I think women would better off under [euphemism for slavery].”, it’s that THEY DON’T BELIEVE YOU.
Because every veiled threat, hysterical outburst, every promise of “inevitable consequences” belies the obvious fact that you condone the hell out violence and female slavery, and you are too much much of a weaselly lying coward to own up to it. You have no one but yourself to blame for the fact that you no credibility on this matter.
DKM: You do realize that the Vorkosigan books are hard sf with a male protagonist, yes? And that while Pirate King has a female one, there is much derring-do, sword fighting and other manly pursuits?
Most of my harder stuff is still in dead tree form. Lots of medieval history, some WW2, bonsai and gardening stuff from Dad, a lot of archaeology (my minor my first time around the college merry go ’round) and paleoanthropology, and some art and architecture thrown in. A lot my taste in the hard stuff is weird and obscure enough that there’s not much in ebooks yet.
Bagelsan: Some of the fanfic is Vorkosigan, too – I found a really interesting slash series. I didn’t think it would work, but I’m buying it.
I think I misused a word there. Substitute “belies” with “betrays”.
I am cold sober, and it hardly matters any more whether or not the protagonist is a “male” character, since, with the possible exception of John Norman’s books–which really discuss an imaginary world (The Gor Sagas)where real slavery for females exists–science fiction has, like most fiction, been so polluted by feminism and “political correctness” that a (so-called) male character the major figure means nothing.
Science fiction is nowadays a type of girlytainment, and as such, as I said above, doesn’t count as real reading material!
All righty then, books only count as books because you read them. Good to know. I’m done arguing with you, DKM. You are a mendacious asshole who can’t even deal with women on the internet, much less real life. So, my reply to you is, as ever, FUCK OFF.
KathleenB: realize you’re talking to somebody who a) gets off on being yelled at by women and b) is so rock-stupid that he thinks ALL SF other than the Gor novels (which are softcore BDSM porn) are irrevocably tainted by The Vagina.
mythago: Which is why I’m just not going to bother. He’s an asshat who’s missing out on a lot of fun by not reading anything contaminated by women, and it’s his loss.
David K. Meller–3
KathleenB–0
Cassandrasays–0
Mythago—–0
Man-3 Women-0! Sounds like a good score to me!
What a nonsurprise that the only Sci-Fi that DKM thinks is any good has women enslaved. I feel sorry for his mother. I really do.
Meller, how do you feel about comic books? Say, Catwoman?
DKM. I’ve never actually seen you cite works. So when you state you are intellectually rigorous, you’ve only been show to be talking out of your ass.
Side note: God is not an acceptable citation for anything within the hard sciences. There is nothing empirical in faith. Also, God is not peer reviewed (Let me say, huge problem last time there was a peer revision). In fact, we can prove your statement about having only two sexes incorrect by simple biological observation of multiple species that are mammalian. Intersex, observable, empirically exists.
Let me rephrase. Faith based observations are not empirical. Epistemologically, they are simply belief.