The smirky MRA douchebag thingsarebad didn’t win a lot of friends when he used to comment here. Ironically, it seems that he’s not doing that much better over on Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit, where his comments tend to garner about as many downvotes as upvotes. Yes, it is possible to be too much of a douche for even the highly douche-tolerant Men’s Rights subreddit.
Anyway, all that is a sort of rambling prelude to my main point here, which is: thingsarebad has figured out that whole “lesbian” thing, and wants to share his results with the world. Also, feminism. His science is tight.
Confused a bit by that explanation? Would you like a much, much longer explanation, replete with fake statistics he’s “mentated” out of his ass? Well, prepare yourself a stiff drink and take a look at this megacomment of his from earlier in that same thread.
We’ll just wait here while you digest all that.
Done? Share your thoughts below, or check out the ShitRedditSays discussion of it all.
Or just watch this video of a rather portly cat climbing into a vase.
Hey, I promised a kitty video to someone in the comments here a couple of days ago. I may be a little slow sometimes, but I am a man of my word.
While I’m at it, here’s a bonus vid of a kitty and a Kleenex box.
ImprobableJoe: I was mocking ThingsAreBad’s remarkable assertations at the link in the OP, where he has three categories of bisexual women (hates men, molested as children, mentally ill). Most people’s actual reaction to my bisexuality is something like “*shrug* pass the popcorn.” 🙂
Well, my girlfriend and I are both female-assigned in the sense that a doctor looked at my vagina when I was born and was like “yep, it’s a girl”, and that most people in our lives are still working off this assumption. But if you look at what we’re like and compare it to the gender binary, we’re both fairly masculine people– everything from short hair and regularly getting called “sir” to our love of action movies and tendency to kill spiders. Also, we’re both attracted to both genders.
She’s actually a woman, though, whereas I’m genderqueer and run about being all “my gender requires several paragraphs to define!”. 🙂
Out of curiosity, which Dyson model are we talking about here? I had a Dyson years ago, and it sucked ass. By which I mean that it didn’t suck much of anything.
I love glitter but I’m allergic to all glitter makeup ever. 🙁 The universe is conspiring against allowing me to be David Bowie when I grow up.
“Well, it was a long and arduous journey. It was dark, and damp, and dirty, and at times I wished I could just give up. But you just can’t give up on the search for knowledge. So I soldiered on, and in my researches discovered all there is to know about gay men and lesbians. My long trek was over. Finally, I could climb out of my own ass and share my newfound knowledge with the world.”
@ Ozy – Even the supposedly hypoallergenic mineral kind? That sucks.
Random info dump – best glam rock makeup I ever saw edition. Same dude referred to above who loves vacuuming. He glued a link of tiny little shiny studs all along his bottom eyelid, so they were kind of like shiny eyeliner. It was pretty awesome, but looked like it would be ouchy to remove.
Line, not link. Needs more coffee.
Ozy, if you can’t do Aladdin Sane Bowie, you could always do Thin White Duke Bowie. Super hot.
I’ve got the Dyson DC-28 Animal, but an older version. The new one has multiple settings and makes me want to cry a little… and don’t even get me started on the new 41 model that makes me want to sell plasma and sperm until I’m a dried out husk, as long as I can drag myself to the store and buy it before I faint and sleep for three weeks.
I’m not even wading into the glitter-filled pond of “genderqueer”… although sometimes I envy people for all the excitement they must have with their interesting gender and sexual identities. I’m so dull.
🙂
Eh, Joe, it’s mostly annoying. 🙂 It would be nice to be able to come out to someone without giving fifteen minutes of Trans 101 first…
Because it is so exciting to not have your gender acknowledged or respected on a daily basis and so exciting to panic inside when faced with gendered spaces and so exciting to not be able to have the medical care you want because of your gender identity, and to have to lie to doctors in order to get the “nongendered” medical care you need just to live. Oh, the excitement!
Returning to the topic in the OP, I did have a homophobe once try and convince me that I must be a lesbian and that I hadn’t really enjoyed the sex I had had with men, he also thought the femme lesbian acquaintance who was with me had to be hetero or bi. Ah, gender stereotyping of queer people at its finest.
Wow, Improbable, that’s probably the most enthusiastic endorsement of a household appliance that I’ve ever heard. Maybe Dyson should pay you to endorse their product. I mean, you would appeal to a very specific demographic, but still…
Gotta love that he brings back the old “you’re gay because you were abused!” idea, by the way. Can’t go wrong with the classics, huh thingsarebad?
Proof that you can shoot down the same bigoted argument for as long as I’ve been alive and the bigots will still use it, because they won’t let your silly facts mess up their firmly-held convictions!
I’m just surprised the numbers actually add up to 100%
I kind of want to hire Joe as my housekeeper now, actually.
Anyone who thinks (mostly) hetero sex can’t be exciting just doesn’t have enough imagination…
He’s a cut above NWO in his ability to make up numbers other than 90%, 99%, and 100%.
Not to mention that queer sex is not inherently kinkier than straight sex. That perception is what leads people to say “aww” when they see a straight couple kissing, but pull disgusted faces when two women touch lips in public. I mean, kissing! In public, where children can see! It’s seen as a much more sexualized act.
None of this is meant as a condemnation of kink, of course; just as acknowledgment that queer sex is not “exotic” simply by being queer, and therefore kinky.
I had intended that to be a response to your comments about dull vs. exciting, Improbable Joe, but rereading makes me think maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say. Still, characterizing cis and straight as “boring” sort of implies it is normal and default. I’m sure it’s not what you meant to do!
It kind of sounds like you’re dismissing the reality of non-cis, non-hetero identities, Improbable Joe. I doubt that’s the case, but why did you feel the need to state that you aren’t going to engage with the question of non-binary identities? I could be putting this poorly, but it sounds like you’re dismissing the reality of these identities, or at the very least dismissing the fact that pretty much no one is queer and/or non-gender-normative for the social benefits and fun that result!
The video of the kitty climbing out of the vase again is cuter.
The paean to the Dyson vacuum: possibly the most unlikely Manboobz derail ever!
If I had carpets I would totally buy one. Fortunately I have almost entirely laminate flooring and just a few throw rugs, so I do OK with a broom and a mop and a crappy old vacuum for the corners/rugs/couches.
Folks… heterosexuality is fine, I’m just sort of a boring person. My wife and I have settled down over the years from super wild-and-kinky to… cozy and stereotypical normal. Which is cool, believe me. Cozy and warm and comfortable and dull and I wouldn’t have it any other way. On the other hand, when you look across the fence the grass is always greener and all that. Not looking to denigrate anyone, including me! 🙂
As to why I wasn’t planning to engage the “genderqueer” thing? Because that would be an even bigger derail, and I wasn’t planning to commit Ozy to any sort of “explain your entire identity to the curious straight guy” action.
And now, back to the Dyson! Seriously though… socks. Right up past the brush, up through the hose and into the dust catcher.
Improbable Joe: a saying from slash fandom: “vanilla is a kink!”.
And while I am totes with you on the Dyson wonderfulness, the use of “normal” in identifying YOUR sexuality leaves those of us who aren’t like you the “abnormal” category which isn’t really too nifty.
Joe you don’t seem to get that non-cis and non-hetero people are just people. You are exotifying them.