Over on Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit, cheester warns all of us dudes about an especially insidious form of anti-male oppression: the racks of women’s magazines that lurk near the checkout counters of grocery stores everywhere!
can I get some feedback on womens magazines at the grocery checkout? Every issue states “new tricks he doesn’t know in bed” and shite like that. It’s obvious porn for the gals but why is it so accepted by everyone that it has carte blanche to be within a two foot reach as I pay for my food? If a magazine for men had on the cover: “20 Ways To Make Her Squirm Like A Fish”….there would be a national outrage.
Yeah, it’s not like Men’s magazines ever run anything like that.
Church groups and womens rights would say it demoralizes women and have the publication banned or put behind censored racks in seedy smoke shops.
Yeah. It’s not like this ever happens to women’s magazines.
But the womens mags are right there as a last shop item in the flourescent lit, sterilized, family atmosphere where every mother parades her toddlers and kids right past the 3 letter word in big black block letters;SEX on the cover of every flashy colored womens mag that comes out each month.
Not only is this oppression of men, it’s oppression of all toddlers who can read and know what the word “sex” means.
Also, feminists have never criticized women’s magazines in any way. “Ten Ways to Make Him Squirm” articles are the distilled essence of feminism! And most of them are written by the ghost of Andrea Dworkin.
NOTE: Does this even need a “sarcasm” tag?
Well, there is his fondness for Stormfront, and the odd sort of, “men will be free to do what they like, and the fustest with the mustest” will be in charge of the ladies, so no untermenschen need apply,” attitude, so perhaps a Leader is what he really wants, the exemplar of those, “powerful men” who will get real women when the sexy-bots are created.
Honestly Meller’s ideas about this sound more religious than political. Apparently Ron Paul is the Messiah, and thus of course he’ll be able to accomplish things that are technically beyond the scope of the powers granted to a President.
Well, c’mon. Ron Paul did leave a watermelon pineapple treasure inside of Liam Neeson. And he’s a leprechaun farmer who’s a gambler, so that’s awesome.
Free bananas!
Meller is a Ronulan; for them it is religious.
A Ron Paul presidency would be SO UNLIKE anything that HAS EVER HAPPENED ON EARTH BEFORE! We HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE! All we know is that IT MUST HAPPEN! OR LOCUSTS!
Anticipated response – you feminists already are like locusts! And thus unappealing to men, unlike the stock photo models who support Cain! I prefer my dolls, and soon all men will join me!!!??!!!
PFKAE – “Our chances for a prosperous and thriving economy are enhanced by following a gold standard–Gold as MONEY
I do not know if anyone has pointed this out to you DKM but the US Constitution does not specify what coins are to be made of.
Aritcle 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5: To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;”
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This is one of those things where he really needs to make up his mind. Is he a constitutionalist or not? I find “constitutional stuff” interesting, but I’m an anarchist, and it would be disingenuous and confusing for me to make my claims based on “what’s constitutional or not” – since I think the thing’s illegitimate along with the whole nation-state concept. So nullify everything and make your own money in your garage with which, hopefully, you can bribe a jury to nullify things* 😉 but I don’t claim it’s what the founding fathers told me in the secret libertarian language. Meller won’t make up his mind. Either constitution counts!!!!!!!!! Or it doesn’t, depending on which way the wind is blowing a weathervane in… I dunno, Ireland?
More seriously, I’ve also tried to point out that having problems with centralized state banking and fiat does not automatically mean NATIONAL GOLD STANDARD OR BUST! (and boom and…). That was AFTER I tried to explain that gold standard economics needs not to gloss over the humanitarian and imperialistic costs of gold mining – He completely missed that point and was talking about gold vs. fiat until he finally seemed to get what I was talking about.
*Also read proudhon and listen to black flag and drink dark roasted fair trade coffee, whenever possible.
Coffee and Black Flag sounds good. But what about the gold? Surely we need some gold in order to make us feel all cozy and safe. Maybe we can scatter some gold leaf on the coffee?
CassandraSays – “*Anticipated response – you feminists already are like locusts! And thus unappealing to men, unlike the stock photo models who support Cain! I prefer my dolls, and soon all men will join me!!!??!!!*”
Where did you get these amazing powers of prediction???
CassandraSays – “Coffee and Black Flag sounds good. But what about the gold? Surely we need some gold in order to make us feel all cozy and safe. Maybe we can scatter some gold leaf on the coffee?”
After the revolution. Otherwise it’s a bit gauche… Then again… Eh, why not! shiney!!!
But wait! Since we are ladies we can’t possibly have access to the gold ourselves, or decide how we want our coffee. We better go find a man to ask if he will kindly give us some gold, and if it would be OK to use it for coffee-enhancing purposes. Maybe if we agreed to go to the brothels they would give us gold in our coffee there?
This is wise. If women’s natural urges for coffee with gold flakes in it are not constrained by society, history has shown the consequences. Possibly in Spain or something.
You know, there are people who do that already and occasionally file their interesting interpretation of US law here.
Personally I think we should use talc for our coinage. It makes just as little sense as gold.
use the gold-plated melitta filters
PKFE – You know what sounds awesome? “fungible talc”
Pecunium – I keep forgetting some people swear by the gold filters.
I’m a french press girl, so no need for filters for me.
I miss my Moka Pot. 🙁
Haha! I don’t drink coffee, so no need for me go go in a brothel! (but I’m still not marrying as a virgin.)
zhinkxy: You’re right! Do you know were I’ve met most Spanish people? (except Spain) In Sweden! That’s a proof!! (of something)
Gold-plated coffee beans: http://www.bronzingstudio.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nice-display24-k-gold-plated-coffee-beans.jpg
DKM:
She doesn’t get any “ecstatic rapture”? Harsh.
Also, nice to meet you, Demios, I hope you and your love have a great life together. Lolling at how quickly Brandon bugged out. Brandon: considering how much I love to kick the shit out of your terrible arguments, am I “male” or “female”?
Viscaria:
I love the word “tavern.” I would at least check out a bar on the sole basis of calling itself a “tavern” if there were one near me that didn’t have stratospherically priced drinks.
I think Meller can safely be said to be less Lestat and more Nosferatu. Scary, predatory, completely amoral. Except with an extra layer of pedantic elderly uncle.
Viscaria:
“I would like to formally put forward DKM’s use of the word “tavern” as further evidence that he is either a) sending these messages from the distant past or b) a centuries-old vampire.”
It’s a data point. Let’s see if he refers to a “rowdy public house” at some point.
Men are pigs, women are sheep. EOS.
Furthermore, wimminz magazines are on the display rack up front in grocery stores because we all know that WOMEN LIKE TO SHOP AND USUALLY DO THE GROCERY SHOPPING MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK! That reddit poster quoted in this blog post really needs to change his pad and take some midol.
The use of “tavern” combined with the love of gold is making me wish that I could find a clip of everyone singing the gold song in the dwarf tavern from the animated version of Wyrd Sisters. What do you think Meller would make of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg?