Today, more insight into the enigma that is ladies. Our topic? The uterus and its discontents. The uterus, for those who have not heard of it, is a lady organ that ladies who were born ladies have down in their lady regions. It is used for two purposes: making babies, and oppressing men.
Some ladies, you see, like to trick men into giving up their sperm (or to steal it from them without their knowledge). The ladies somehow use this sperm to grow babies in their uteruses — I’m not sure on all the details here — which they then use to extract money from men. As is well known, it really doesn’t cost anything to raise a child, and the ladies use most of the so-called child-support they get from men to pay for bon bons and Cadillacs.
It gets worse. According to a dude called Joe Zamboni over on The Spearhead, some of these uterus-having ladies are at risk of developing something called Golden Uterus Syndrome, or GUS. First described by Dr. Tara J. Palmatier, Zamboni notes,
Golden Uterus Syndrome (GUS) occurs when a woman thinks she deserves special privileges just because she has given birth to a child. … Supposedly all sorts of things (like a mother not taking a job, and instead staying at home) are for the benefit of the child, when in reality they are simply a cover for the woman manipulating others to get her way. … So many of these mothers just take, take, take — like parasites.
Even worse, Zamboni explains, is that some women deliberately infect themselves with Golden Uterus Syndrome, thus guaranteeing them a life of ease as a stay-at-home or single mother:
[W]omen all over world are blatantly getting pregnant so that they don’t have to work at a job, so that they can be supported by a man. I’m not going to act like I approve of their behavior to ensnare and enslave a man, so that this man is then forced to pay eighteen years of child support at the very least.
GUS is rampant in the United States. And it’s time for an intervention.
Mothers now enjoy many unwarranted preferences, and it’s time to reestablish a new and more equitable balance.
Luckily, Zamboni explains, we can combat many of the evil effects of GUS simply by acting like assholes.
The fact is that other people, be they men or women, owe nothing to mothers. As the recent Italian ocean liner accident (Costa Concordia) dramatically revealed, chivalry is dead. I won’t give my seat on the bus to a mother who’s standing, and I certainly won’t give my sinking-ship lifeboat seat to a mother.
The social contract between men and women is dead, and feminist women are the ones who killed it. Mothers in general don’t do anything for me (although I appreciate my own, God rest her soul).
Men shouldn’t feel guilty for treating mothers badly. Because feminism.
Once upon a time, there may have been good reason to protect mothers, to support mothers, etc. (I don’t know, I wasn’t there). But that is one hundred or more years ago. Today’s American women claim to be the equals of men, if not better than men. At least in this instance, I am pleased to give them what they say they want (equal treatment).
Motherhood is, after all, a choice, and men really shouldn’t be burdened by any of the costs of human reproduction.
The fact is that modern mothers have a choice to have a child or not. When they have a child, it is their own personal burden that they are taking on — it is their decision to have that baby. I had no part in their past baby making decisions (unfortunately even if I was the contributor of DNA material), and I do not now agree to allow them to off-load the baby-related responsibilities and costs onto me. …
This is fundamentally a question of self-responsibility, and women in general seem loath to take on true self-responsibility. A friend of mine calls it “congenital female selfishness,” but I think it is more like an acculturated selfishness, and a “pussy pass” so that they can get out of trouble, so that they don’t need to grow-up. As long as we men keep playing the mangina and white knight roles, as long as we keep giving all sorts of special treatment to mothers, going out of our way to protect mothers, doing all sorts of special favors for mothers, we feed and perpetuate the GUS fantasy.
And really, why should men have to pay just because some lady wants to take up babymaking as a hobby?
The fact is: the world doesn’t need more children. … Women don’t need to have children. They want children. Having children is a preference, and men are supposed to endlessly indulge women in the fulfillment of this wish. It’s time that the women-having-babies conversation was brought into the realm of public conversation, and then dealt with rationally and responsibly.
It’s time that men got a backbone and refused to endlessly indulge women in their desire for, and rearing of children. In large measure, it is the continued willingness of men to indulge this selfish female desire that has led to our overpopulation problem.
Exactly! It has nothing to do with governments and religious institutions campaigning against birth control and abortion, or any of that stuff. It’s female selfishness, plain and simple.
It’s time for all men to say “no” to women that selfishly keep having babies. It’s time for third party men to say “no” to providing support and protection to mothers who have quite clearly rejected any sort of partnership with a man. It’s time for all men to say “no” to the exploitative demands of these GUS-infected self-serving mothers.
Stirring words indeed.
Naturally, Zamboni’s argument found receptive ears over at The Spearhead.
“Great article Joe,” wrote Pendelton.
The living hell a man goes through where the golden uterus lives on his back and shoulders 24/7, also using his children to dump on and chump off him has got to be comparably unbearable.
And it’s always to be remembered that this type of woman, being a natural mercenary and hostage maker, has the legal violence of the law to back up her nastiness.
Why do people put up with these nagging hoyhums ?
Stonelifter added:
woman have the golden everything syndrome. They think you owe them for life if you had sex with you once; sex which they also enjoyed as well as you.
They make you diner once, you owe them for life
Admittedly, if a woman builds you an entire diner, I think you probably do owe her for that.
Durandal worked in a bit of “we hunted the mammoth for you” as well:
Women’s value is defined by what they have. Which is a vagina, uterus, and babymaking capability. Hence the self-entitlement and the probable evolutionary adaptation of selfishness and reliance on emotional solipsism and manipulation.
Men’s value is defined by what they do. Which is build absolutely everything, provide everything and advance civilization through their effort, rationality, intelligence, courage and sacrifice.
When our fiat monetary system falls apart and our economy winds down (and it will, if it hasn’t already), watch as government mandated entitlements for women from education & employment quotas to divorce court payouts go up in smoke and an immediate desire to reinstate productivity and real wealth (brought to you by patriarchy) returns for good.
Orecret also predicted the end of the world as we know it (and he feels fine):
Sometimes I wonder how much of the tension between women and men and the consequent breakdown of the social contract between them are due to overpopulation on the planet.
A greater population is no longer needed. Babies and children thus have a lower social value… as do WOMEN… and the male-female bond generally.
Women have gained more power due to prosperity and technology. They are currently experiencing what to them seems like a moment of glory. Only they are poised for a great fall as the effects of overpopulation on the planet become more acutely felt.
As elbow room becomes significantly impinged, men will find themselves even less inclined to take on any sort of partnership with a woman, especially where children are concerned. This effectively frees up men to use their time as they see fit as they are not to be burdened with the expenses and responsibilities of marriage, etc.
Men will act less and less in the public sphere. Corporations will have a hard time hiring men to jobs that they neither need nor want having been freed from the burden of family. Armies will shrink due to the lack of will the everyman has in protecting a society where the social contract has broken down much to the detriment of men everywhere.
The society will crash around us. Women will find themselves without male partners in an increasingly harsh social and natural environment. Life will become increasingly difficult for them and they will be (evermore) unhappy.
The MEN will be free and feral. Returned once again to a natural state where the majority of them are the happiest.
It seems a collective Wile E. Coyote moment is about to take place on a global scale.
It’s a good thing that THIS roadrunner has already gone ghost.
Each of these comments got dozens of upvotes on The Spearhead. Spearheaders know good sense when they see it!
And ninja’d – great minds and all that 😉
@Brandon, it’s not a strawman, it’s the logical conclusion to your argument. You now admit you want women to be pregnant and bear the physical consequences, yet you still say that pregnant people should be denied any accommodations for those physical consequences.
As an “actual disabled person” I don’t find it insulting at all. My sister almost died from her second pregnancy (she went into eclampsia). Also, people with disabilities don’t particularly need you to concern troll us.
@Cassandra: I find it pretty insulting to actual disabled people to say pregnancy is a disability.
Speaking as a bona fide cripple, I don’t find it the least bit insulting. More like ” quite obviously factually true and entirely reasonable.”
Brandon, don’t try to concern troll, it’s not a good look on you.
His Illustriousness Brandon said:
Oh, was that your point? Funny, I had an entirely different impression. Possibly because you made all of these statements:
My point is that he is free to give up his seat if he so chooses, but he shouldn’t be labeled an asshole for not abiding by the wishes of the feminists here or the mother on the bus.
Damn blockquotes 🙁 the paragraph 3rd from the bottom is also a quote.
Brandon doesn’t realize that you can think someone’s an asshole and not let it ruin your day or your entire outlook on life.
Brandons points always change because he doesn’t actually have any points to make. He’s not just an asshole, he’s an asshole loudly proclaiming asshole-ism as a ‘good’ way of life. That’s why he comes across as boring with an aftertaste of pathetic.
Brandon, at some point, every one of us was a fetus in a uterus. The fact that some women choose to be pregnant ensures the continuance of the human race.
Unless you think the only reason uterus-havers have any right to special consideration while pregnant is if it was forced upon them, and in that case, fuck you.
Brandon still? Well I’ve duly noted he’s an asshole, and despite this I’m quite pleased with life as I’ve just completed an intricate embroidery project of a blackwork butterfly AND I’m planning out another project which will have a definite illuminated manuscript theme as a present for Beloved.
Also, I tend to note things every day that people in general aren’t assholes
More of Brandon’s assholishness and ignorance: How dare anybody call pregnancy a disability! What an insult to disabled people!
First, dudetroll, the federal government disagrees with you and agrees with us: Read it and weep.
Second, your assumption that temporary disability does not exist, and that all disabled people are always universally disabled (and never anything else) is also wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Plus, you also assume that women who have other disabilities cannot also be pregnant (probably you also assume that people with disabilities never have sex, because BRANDON).
So that in every possible way, you are not only an asshole in regard to your behavior in public, but also stone ignorance about the legal realities in your country, and the various efforts made by people with disabilities to gain equal access.
But then we know you don’t believe in equal access–like many misogynistic assholes, you seem to think equality means “everybody should be treated exactly like me, a straight, able bodied, cis, white, male” and anything else is OMG special treatment.
Not only an asshole, but so ignorant I’m amazed you manage to make it from day to day.
@Darksidecat: I don’t really give a crap if a woman is or isn’t pregnant. Nor do I care if she wants to keep the baby or abort it. Not my life, not my baby. So I have no say or interest in what another person does with their life. Plus to interfere in her life about her pregnancy (or lack thereof) seems rather rude IMO.
@Viscaria: It is possible to have multiple points. Stop being so one-dimensional. The guy sitting down really isn’t doing anything to warrant someone being hostile towards him…nor does being hostile towards him solve anything.
Even if you thought he was an asshole, then confronted him…what would most likely happen? I would say about 3 options exist: 1) He would get up 2) He would avoid you or 3) He would tell you to fuck off.
At the end of it all, while you are free to have any feelings you want, feeling that the guy sitting down is being an asshole for not getting up is counter-productive. You are basically having one big validating circle jerk in your head.
@Hellkell: No, but it is a rather cynical and negative thought. If you constantly have negative thoughts, you have a better chance at becoming a negative person. You are made up of your thoughts and if you are constantly whining, bitching, moaning and generally unhappy with what other people are doing…then you most likely will be someone that others will avoid. Instead of focusing on what people are doing wrong…why don’t you try and focus on what people are doing right.
@ithiliana: Like I give a shit about what the US government classifies. The difference is that most women choose (and want) to be or become pregnant. Nobody chooses to have their leg broken. It is basically women saying “Look what I did to myself…please feel sorry for me”.
I never said that one can not be temporarily disabled. In fact, I know a few with ACTUAL temporary conditions.
I find it hilarious that you are assuming what you think I am assuming. A women with a broken leg is pregnant = disabled pregnant woman. Oh noes!! she has a disability on top of her disability…a double disability!!! One more and it is a trifecta!
I didn’t even know I could roll my eyes so hard. Assholes like Brandon teach me things about myself all the time!
I don’t know how I manage to get sucked into the vortex that is his huge ego, carefully protected by several layers of denial and willful stupidity. Do not engage the Brandon, Viscaria; that way leads to headaches and sadness about the state of humanity.
So Brandon, what about the safety issues involved? That pregnant women are more likely to fall, more likely to suffer an injury to their stomach? That twisted and sprained limbs are more likely to go into shock and thus miscarry? Any thoughts?
Also, what about a woman who has been put on bedrest, and has been medically advised to not stand any more than necessary lest she lose her baby? Can you make that diagnoses just by looking at her?
Brandon’s line of reasoning seems to be this:
1.) You can’t expect anyone NOT to be an asshole
2.) Women who get pregnant will be treated assholeishly by Brandon
3.) Women should not expect to be treated any better by anyone, ever (see point 1). Because they *chose* to get pregnant, see? And pointing out when someone is doing something wrong is going to make your life much, much worse in the long run than pointing out Brandon is being a dick to you!
Maybe Brandon will see how this is a bad argument if we apply it to other situations:
1.) You can’t expect anyone NOT to be an asshole
2.) Women who are black will never be given seats on buses by people who are assholes.
3.) Black women should not expect to be treated any better by anyone, ever (see point 1). Plus, pointing out when someone is doing something wrong is going to make your life much, much worse in the long run than pointing out someone is denying you a seat based on your race!
Or how about this one:
1.) You can’t expect anyone NOT to be an asshole
2.) Children who are perceived as gay in school are often bullied viciously and driven to depression.
3.) Children should not expect to be treated any better by anyone, ever (see point 1). Because they *chose* to act gay, see? And pointing out when someone is doing something wrong is going to make your life much, much worse in the long run than pointing out that someone is being homophobic!
…And then you guys make me happy about humanity again! Yay you guys! <3
Cuz, it’s not like pointing out people are being dicks was ever the first step in *changing the way people view women and minorities*, or anything like that. No way! All those suffragetes and freedom riders and LGBTQ clubs would have actually had *much* better lives if they didn’t say anything about how they were being treated at all!
Um. That should have been that women with twisted and sprained limbs….need more coffee. 🙂
I think that maybe Brandon is just angry that his passive aggressive behaviour towards women isn’t as undetectable as he thinks it is. Why else does he keep coming back here?
The difference is that most women choose (and want) to be or become pregnant. Nobody chooses to have their leg broken. It is basically women saying “Look what I did to myself…please feel sorry for me”.
Wow. Your seething contempt for women is really shining though here. Or at least, for women who make choices you disagree with for no adequately explored reason. I mean seriously, by refusing to give up a seat for someone who cannot stay standing for extended periods without risking their health, you are not simply failing to act. You’re actively making the choice to increase another human being’s discomfort and risk of injury. And this you call morally neutral?
You think it’s not obvious you’re doing this out of spite? Your bratty teenager tone betrays you.
A women with a broken leg is pregnant = disabled pregnant woman. Oh noes!! she has a disability on top of her disability…a double disability!!! One more and it is a trifecta!
Do you… do you enjoy making a fool of yourself?
@Pillow: There are transportation services for people that are disabled so they do not have to ride conventional transportation (such as the MBTA’s The Ride). They get picked up and dropped off without them standing in the subway or at a bus stop nor are they placed in a position where they would hurt themselves (standing up on a bus). So maybe they should be proactive about their own safety instead of demanding others to take care of it for them.
If a pregnant woman was told to remain in bed by a doctor…then why is she willingly endangering herself by taking public transportation?
DO YOU THINK GAY KIDS SHOULD JUST STOP ACTING GAY, BRANDON? CUZ YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT ASSHOLES, AMIRITE?
First Brandon, special transportation services are not well advertised. Also, they often don’t run in a convenient or timely manner. I know this because I spent ten years working with physically disabled children and adults. Getting on the listing of people allowed to use those services is rather time consuming, and that is assuming that the city you live in has any sort of budget for providing those services.
Many pregnant women cannot afford cab fare to get to their doctors appointments and their doctor is too far for them to walk. Hence the need to travel by bus. She’s not ill enough to justify a hospital stay and so she is sent home.
Brandon: Choosing to be an asshole!
He wears his assholeishness proudly.
@Dracula: Only in a feminist world does being treated the same as everyone else equate to contempt.
If you like, we can place feminist stickers on active feminists so I can mock them when they take public transportation. If you do that…I will give my seat up to anyone who asks. Even rich white dudes.
Also, if a pregnant woman ASKED me for my seat, I would most likely get up. It’s the notion that I should automatically get up without being asked that annoys me. What if she is perfectly fine with standing or sees it as an insult if I just got up.
What I find funny is that the commenters here are all about using the “nice and polite” card. But they never see all the times where men have been shouted at by being “nice and polite”.
Do you know how many times I have been given dirty looks and yelled at for holding a door open for a woman? A lot. Over time, I just stopped opening doors for women. They mostly yelled at me about being “strong and capable” to open a door. They saw it as me being condescending and seeing them as weak, when all I was trying to do was be nice.
So being an asshole is learned behavior based on how people (in this case women since I have never been yelled at by a man for holding a door for them) react to what you do for them. In the end, people avoid confrontation…and who knows how that pregnant woman will react if I offer my seat to her. If she asks, then that tells me she isn’t going to flip the fuck out at me if I get up since she asked me for it.