The other day Holly Pervocracy, a friend of Man Boobz with her own awesome and sometimes NSFW blog, drew the picture above, which is her best rendering of what the world apparently looks like to one of this blog’s resident trolls, a rather untraditional traditionalist named David K. Meller. On the left, an example of a fine, upstanding traditional woman, dressed in a proper ladylike manner and concerned with ladylike things (e.g., cooking and kitties); on the right, a foul feminist.
This got me thinking: are there any videos online that depict both cats and bats? This being the internet, the answer was of course yes. So I present to you a kitty snatching a bat from the air. Kitties are fucking amazing.
Here’s another video, involving a cat and a different kind of bat.
EDITED TO ADD: Bat cat!!!! (Thanks, Katz, in the comments.)
Batcat is the cutest EVAR.
Also LOL at MRAs being the arbiters of politeness and etiquette.
I just LOVE Simon’s Cat. Thx David
That’s just what the feminists WANT you to think, Pecunium! Soon–not tonight, but soon–you’ll wake up in the middle of the night and find yourself surrounded by the Vagninjas!
” Soon–not tonight, but soon–you’ll wake up in the middle of the night and find yourself surrounded by the Vagninjas!”
I’m sure he’ll be just heartbroken about that.
hahaha…Vagninjas. Do they shoot shurikens?
I actually get annoyed all the time by oblivious pedestrians — whether they are slow and oblivious, taking up the whole sidewalk or bike path, or marching at full speed and forcing me to get out of the way.
But it’s weird to blame it all on one gender. In my experience the standing-or-walking-slowly -while-oblivious groups can be men or women or (usually) both. There are probably more women than men pushing strollers obliviously, and more men talking into cell phones or with friends and marching at high speed obliviously.
I also get annoyed when pedestrians aren’t in their proper lanes. IT’S JUST LIKE WITH CARS, PEOPLE — WALK ON THE RIGHT.
But I also realize that my annoyance is a little bit ridiculous. Seriously, there are a lot more important things to get annoyed about.
Nice cartoon, but… normal women don’t like kitties! Kitties are for the evil feminists and masculine women who couldn’t find anyone to marry and have to try to assuage their loneliness by owning pets!
Mmm, the traditional lady has short hair. No lady wears her hair short!!!
Eneya: She has curly hair, so maybe they’re longer that it seems. Or she has a ponytail. ^_^
Meh: A good alternative would be: I like being submissive and pleasing my man.
My obervations…. most people are clueless when they walk. I walk a fair bit faster than most. I move out of the traffic stream if it’s too crowded.
I tend to not give way, all that much; because I am moving faster than the stream. If I can do it without slowing down/bumping people I will, but generally I get others to yield for me.
But it’s not absolute, and I can’t count the amount of time I spend stuck behind people who fail to notice they are taking all the room on the sidewalk to dawdle along. Just as with cars there are people who rush to get an opening, so they can then slow down.
Because people, are clueless.
I’m really bad at knowing if I’m in someone’s way, but this isn’t female supremacy so much as unfortunate personal awkwardness, I promise.
I get wandering and can completely go on auto-pilot, I’m terrible for noticing people around me. Usually, I bring my dog BECAUSE she’s more courteous!
I think the UAE falls under the definition of “Third World country”, despite being very wealthy, simply because they were aligned with neither the NATO nor the Warsaw Pact bloc during the Cold War. But perhaps the original definition of the term has outlived its usefulness after the Cold War ended.
As for the “sidewalk wars”: I hate it when people walk very slowly, or especially when they suddenly stop walking, on the sidewalk. I tend to react too slowly and end up bumping into them, or end up too close to them. I hate having a stranger very close to me (or bumping together; I *HATE* unpredictably touching or being touched by other people), regardless of their gender. I have not noticed whether women or men do this more often, though.
The very worst for me is when some group of people is moving slowly and blocking a hallway.
The solution to all these minor annoyances, apparently, is ramming speed!
I used to walk very fast, even with the bum ankle, but the advent of the bum ankle/hip combo (both on the same leg), I just can’t move very fast. Especially wen it’s cold. Or rainy. It’s both today…
What really takes the cake is, when they are in a narrow area, you can’t pass them, you wait until they get to a wider area, and they SPREAD OUT INTO THE WIDER AREA SO YOU STILL CAN’T GET AROUND THEM.
Or when an entire phalanx of people is headed towards you filling the sidewalk and no one moves out of the way, leaving you literally nowhere to go.
But I have noticed in groups of people that men generally don’t get out of the way of women nearly as often as women get out of the way of men. Watch people at a pedestrian mall or shopping mall and you’ll see. I sometimes perform the experiment of not getting out of the way of men and they often look quite surprised when I don’t duck at the last moment.
I try to be considerate of other pedestrians, but when I’m with my children, it’s more of a challenge. They sometimes stop in front of others because they see something exciting, like a puppy or toy. Hopefully other people can be forgiving for parents with small children out there when we block sidewalk traffic.
Was just going to mention this. This is one of those very subtle hierarchy behaviors you can notice if you pay attention closely. (Same thing with women on buses/subways/benches/etc.– they’re expected to “close up” and cede space to men.) If you are a woman or look like one, I invite you to walk around your local town/city and try to avoid moving out of the way for male pedestrians– in my experience it seems confusing for the men (they will often move away at the very last possible second, they’re basing their behavior on the premise that you’ll move) and you will get run into a lot (yes, even if you are the only two people on the street and the dude is not on the phone/listening to music and he gives you eye contact and fully recognizes you are coming towards him). I didn’t know there were some assholes who did it on purpose, but since it’s one of those ALPHA BIG DOG MANLY MAN I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HERE AND YOU DON’T things, doesn’t surprise me that MRAs would go for it. They are so insistent they have the right to occupy the sidewalk and continue to move that they can’t stop for a second and let a woman go by. HOW DARE THEY GET IN MY WAY
I’m not sure if there have been any official studies on this, I googled for a bit and couldn’t find anything (I don’t know what keywords to use). It would be interesting to see if anyone’s verified this, because as far as I can tell it’s one of those feminist anecdotal experiment things; I’m not sure if anyone’s bothered to support it scientifically.
My biggest pet peeve is on buses. I go to a university where I have to use the buss system a lot, and sometimes the buses get really crowded. Women tend to try to take up as little room as possible (legs crossed, elbows in. I even go so far as to take off bulky jackets and fold them on my lap although I don’t think everyone does this.) One of the most obnoxious things in the world to me is when the bus is packed like a can of sardines and some dudebro sits next to me and splays his legs and arms everywhere and gets into my space. I guess it’s kind of irrational, since its not a big deal for me to sit shoulder to shoulder with someone or to have to squeeze up against strangers, but it really bothers me when I’m trying to take up as little room as possible and someone else makes no such effort and gets into my personal space.
By far not all guys do this, of course, but I have never had this issue with a woman.
I don’t see how the AVfM commenters can at one moment say how much more polite and courteous men are than women, and then turn around admit to elbowing into women’s breasts for invading their personal space. Seriously, honestjohn said,
Sure there are asshole women, and there are some very polite men. Are the ones who elbow into women’s breasts courteous? Not by a long shot.
I think the men moving out of the way for each other thing is partially regional, northern men move out of the way a lot more than southern ones…
Zorro sez:
I’m sorry you don’t understand this “having friends” thing, and “interacting with other human beings” thing, but, um, some people actually enjoy the company of other people. And want to talk to them. 30 years is a long time to be clueless about basic facts of social interaction.
I’m imagining Zorro trying to get lunch with one of his coworkers or something and he keeps insisting that they march in single file.
“Dude, can you slow down? I can’t talk to you if you keep trying to run in front of me.”
“ARE YOU CALLING ME A PUSSY MANGINA???”
“I’m not calling you… Wait, a… what?”
“I HAVE BEEN OBSERVING WOMEN FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS!”
“One On One combat” is definitely my favourite. Hey, you know that thing where you and someone else are about to run into each other, and then you both adjust the same way so you’re still in one another’s way, and then you do that another couple of times and then everybody laughs? If you’re a man, and that happens with a woman, she’s actually doing it on purpose. Because she hates you and your penis.
Bad walkers make me nutty too, especially in fast-moving University hallways. If you have to text, find somewhere out of the flow of traffic, please. But it has very little gender. I have found, as other posters have said, that non-male pedestrians are more willing to cede a little room to me than male ones.
I also get annoyed at the bus thing. It’s pretty rude to take up the whole seat, which some men (and occasionally women) do. I also get frustrated when a dude who just gave me a look when I walked by, yields some space when a man eyes the seat.
Very little to do with gender, I mean.
Rocketfrog: In many ways, you’re bang-on correct as the “third world” was connected to the Tri-continental association (Havanna ’66), the Internationals, and, most notably, the Bandung Conference of ’55. In essence, these were varying attempts to create a “Third World” apart from the First World (Europe/USA) and the Second World (USSR). A sort of “neither Washington nor Warsaw” attempt at a geopolitical, yet collective power bloc of communal nations. Unfortunately, during both the Cold War and beyond, this idea of independence was tough to maintain. Hence, one of the reasons people claim: Third World = Poor, dependent nation. The collection of postcolonial nations didn’t have the clout to separate from machinations of the Cold War. In that respects, even the UAE had, to some extent, pick a side (or at least effectively play both sides off each other).
Nowadays, the Third World, as a term or group identity, has fallen out of favor because of the collapse of the USSR and the almost persistent association of the term with not only a lesser economic standing but also cultural and social deficiency.
Hell, I’m even (at times) in favor of casting out the phrase developing country as the whole world is unevenly developed, so to speak. Even successful “First World” countries have pockets, sometimes large ones, of developing communities.