When we first met Spearhead commenter Rmaxd, he was raving about how our technological society had rendered women obsolete. He’s back, this time taking on, well, women again, and welfare, and declining birth rates, and, well, it’s all a little bit hard to follow.
Let’s start with Rmaxd’s basic premises:
Women are serially monogamous or hypergamous & are infertile for the majority of their lives
While men are polygamous, & FERTILE for the majority of their lives
Marriage has always been used as the earliest form of birth contraception, limit the amount of children a fertile male can have, by forced mating with a single infertile woman for the rest of his life.
We are off to a bad start here. Is there anything in all that that’s correct? Among other things: marriage is most decidedly not a particularly effective form of birth control. (The show Eight is Enough was based on a real family, and I suspect we’ve all met people with enough siblings to fill a bus.) But let’s continue; Rmaxd is on a roll:
As the government can no longer force this sort of mating on infertile womens, especially in the lower moronic, under educated peasantry states,
As women want alphas,
Obviously sluts & whores, are simply mimicing infertile women, as only infertile dried up vaginas, can afford to sleep around with hundreds of men
This is why we have sluts & promiscuity, marketted to young girls today, imitate infertile women, imitate their habits, destroy your fertility, destroy your youth
A childhood of std’s & yeast infections
Yeah, I’m not even going to try to parse all that.
In any case, as Rmaxd argues, these “infertile” ladies somehow still manage to pop out a few kids when they’re young, and the evil welfare state rewards them for it:
It’s essentially birth control by sponsoring infertile women, most women have a couple of kids, basically enough to live off the welfare & free housing
As we all know, single mothers live lives of untold luxury and indolence.
What we have here is essentially welfare for infertile women, as they’re no longer able to siphon cash from enslaving men into walking wallets & their magical vagina’s a pit of std’s & warts
In the past, you see, women could enslave men by marrying them. Now they can’t get dudes to stick around, so instead they enslave men by not marrying them, raising their kids on their own with the help of welfare money. It’s all very devious.
Rmaxd would prefer that the welfare money go to the fathers:
If we had welfare for men who had kids, with different women, we would have a healthy birth rate, instead of the declining birth rate we have now … this is all about rewarding & protecting a womans sexuality over a mans sexuality
It all leads to what Rmaxd calls:
The new another dark age of female fanatical male hate,
sponsored & policed by the church of radical feminist mangina, & government
The dried up vagina, as a tool of the state & population control
This barely coherent spew of woman-hatred – and it’s even less comprehensible without my edits and annotations – still managed to draw a few upvotes from the regulars, proving that internet misogynists will upvote pretty much anything so long as it contains the requisite level of anti-woman vitriol.
In case you’re feeling especially bored this lazy Sunday, the whole Spearhead thread is a trainwreck of misogyny and racism – including some fairly obnoxious discussions of black “Welfare Queens” and Mexican immigrants from a fellow called Keyster. Does that (fake) name sound familiar? You may know him as a fairly regular contributor to A Voice for Men and the producer of the AVfM internet radio show.
I really wonder what sort of thing Brandon told her… he after all wasn’t banned; he was set a challenge. He was asked to show David a small modicum of respect, in David’s place. All he had to do was make one post that wasn’t about Brandon.
Just one. He could have talked about Football, or bowling, or IT problems, the ways in which secretly recording people has been used as exculpatory evidence (it’s not as if we’d not have known that was really about Brandon, but he could have talked about concrete cases that weren’t him secretly taping women lest they accuse him; falsely, of rape).
But even that level of non-narcissism was beyond him; to grant someone the respect they were due… that’s not for Brandon.
What’s also made me feel a little jaded about looking up my geneology was that there’s many, many family rumors and very, very little documentation of anyone outside my immediate family. (Example: my mom’s side of the family is convinced that someone on my dad’s side of the family married a Cherokee, but no one on my dad’s side of the family has any idea how this rumor started. XD) I understand that this is actually more the norm when looking up family histories, but it was very sobering to look through my grandfather’s documents and realize that name, birth date, occupation, and date of death were in many cases all we had left of someone’s life.
Canadian plains farmers on both sides. Eastern European immigrants to Saskatchewan, and Francoalbertains. They were all Catholic, and had Catholic numbers of babies. They told my mom’s mom after her 2nd child that her system couldn’t handle it and she’d need to have a hysterectomy, and she said “you don’t seem to understand how Catholic I am!” and had 3 more babies before the operation was actually done.
My great-grandparents may have once sold eggs to John Dillinger – he was apparently in the area at the time and the man they spoke to seemed suspicious to my great-grandfather. That’s really all the cool family history I’ve got.
Uh…one of my far-removed cousins was in Ghosts of the Mississippi and one of the Jurassic Park movies, among other things. He hasn’t done any acting that I know of in years, though.
My grandfather started the first African-American studies program at his (Southern) university.
I know for a fact that I have a disinherited great uncle nobody talks about because he married (gasp!) a Lutheran girl. I also have a cousin that has never met anybody on my side of the family, and I’m not sure all of my cousins have even heard about him. It really makes me wonder what other secret relatives might be concealed on my family tree.
Viscaria, your post reminded me: The only family scandal I know of that we’ve had is that I have an aunt who disowned her family and was recently arrested for something about compiling ingredients to make meth.
…Yeah, we don’t talk about her much.
I’m related to the people who wrote the song, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”.
Pretty sweet, now I just have to get through people massacring the song during Karaoke.
(The Michael Mcdonald version is pretty ok, though).
I go to bed and have a busy morning and “Ashley” show up? HAHAHAHAHAHA.
We hear you like it up against the wall, Ash. BTW, definitely take others’ advice and check for hidden cameras. Also, watch your tone of voice with Brandon, he’s apparently all about RESPECT.
How pathetic.
Dammit, an hour after I leave, Ashley shows up.
Would it be sketch to email that obviously-fake address just to see if it bounces?
Actually he probably registered a Yahoo account just for this; given that name is a required field, he specifically entered an email address as a name too, obviously angling for people to email it so he can “prove” it’s “real” (and get in offsite arguments).
Actual!Ashley, if she existed, would presumably have an actual handle that isn’t her real name and isn’t what Brandon always refers to her as, and wouldn’t enter her email address in the field clearly marked “name” (something no one has ever done in the history of this site). If she was posting from Brandon’s computer, it would have Brandon’s information autofilled.
David: does the email address he entered as an email match the one he entered as a name?
If it did, the avatar would be the same color though.
@Holly – Wow. My grandparents were all in the US well before WWII, but my grandmother had cousins still in Europe. They tried to get the family to emigrate, but her cousin refused. He said, these are our neighbors, our friends. Of course we’ll be safe. None of them survived.
I saw Schindler’s List on a trip to California to visit my mother’s cousins. One cousin’s wife had been smuggled out of Krakow as a child. During the scenes filmed in Krakow, she kept leaning over and pointing out buildings and landmarks she recognized. It was really chilling and creepy.
“Tech geek knows how to use IP router and sock puppet himself: Film at 11”
As usually, Brandon is boring as hell.
AFAIK I have no awesome ancestors. I’m cool with that.
I actually did start menopause at age 23. It’s highly unusual, but not impossible.
Thing is, we’re now *coughity* years beyond that, and you cannot tell from looking at me. Hell, most strangers can’t even tell it’s been *coughity* years since I was 23, judging by the number who ask me when I’m going to graduate from high school. LOL. It’s almost as if the state of my FSH/LH cycle has no bearing whatsoever on the state of my wrinkles – or total lack thereof.
I am extremely white and totally infertile, though, so I guess I’m everything that’s wrong with America.
Also, I’m a direct descendant of William Bradford, that grouchy-assed Mayflower-riding Puritan who ran Plymouth Colony for umpty years and whose first wife fell overboard and drowned even before the Indians could shower her with turkey and football at the first Thanksgiving. (I’m descended from his second wife, along with literally thousands of other USians.)
I, for one, expect to be the famous ancestor.
My sources have just confirmed there isn’t a single person in the entire United States named “Ashley Phinn”.
@Amused: But what do your sources say about Thailand?
Ashley,
I’m amused you think my views of B_don are “unfortunately twisted” – we only have words to go on in this medium, and your partner has impressed many people here (in the wrong way) with his overweening arrogance and solipsism, to the point of obsessiveness: he failed to meet David’s request that he not talk about himself in order to be taken off moderation. Since he is such a colossal narcissist, would you like to demonstrate that unlike him you are able to engage on some topic other than yourself or B_don?
Amused,
Ashley was good enough to tell us that Phinn isn’t her actual surname – and prior to that revelation, I had discovered a woman named “Ashley Phin” on Facebook (as well as one named “Ashley Phin-borski”, whose profile is worth finding for the dreadful profile picture), so I can believe that to some degree; a lot of people have e-mail addresses that slightly obfuscate names.
Ancestors?
None of any note, sadly, and unlike PfkaE I don’t expect to leave any descendents who might view me as their ‘famous ancestor’!
Ashley, so how do you and Brandon manage your long-distance relationship? (Well, medium distance.)
Oh, we must know: how far away?
Why Carole King far away.
Darn it, I can’t share my awesome ancestor stories. Lest I hurl every last scrap of plausible deniability overboard.
@Ashley:
That’s funny, because he pretty much hates his mother. Ya think there’s some Freudian shit going on there?
@ Dracula
Me too! (Well, sort of. One of the accusers was the second wife of my whatever-great-grandfather. Cotton Mather mentioned her in one of his memoirs – she didn’t suffer any lingering effects from her “possession.”)
On the other side of the family, my great-grandmother emigrated from Poland as an unmarried 19-year-old. But I just found out that she was traveling with a 10-month-old child that no one in the family knows anything about. My mother flatly refuses to consider that this wasn’t someone else’s baby who was traveling (alone!) with my ancestor for some reason.