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!
But Brandon, you CHOSE to become a war vet! You can’t blame people for being assholes about your pain! 😀
@pillowinhell:
No worries, it wasn’t until I read Shadow’s post that I thought… “wait, that was directed at me? O_O” Looks like your post was necessary thought, given Brandon’s response to you…
@Brandon:
My point was to try to get you to understand that offering to alleviate someone’s suffering can and should be done no matter how that person came to suffer. Hospitals treat everyone equally, whether they were a drunk driver or run into by one. Obviously one of us has failed here.
The “social contract” is something that everyone agrees to by necessity, whether they want to agree or not, as part of living in a social world. Go live out in the woods away from civilization, and no more contract.
But come one… really? Save the grandiose rhetoric for a topic in which you have a valid point to make.
Brandon, work experience, experience in related fields should also qualify.
Secondly, many black people had the odds grossly stacked against them to even finish school. Getting thrown in jail, being required to watch younger siblings or having to work so you can put food in your mouth have a tendency to do that.
So does being forced to participate in literature classes that take great pride in featuring racist crap or science classes that deliberately appropriate the innovations and contributions of colored people.
@Molly: And I feel sympathetic to the pain that war vets face. However, when I enlisted I very well knew the dangers of becoming a Cav Scout. So for a soldier to demand sympathy because he enlisted is a very strange concept. You don’t hear soldiers brattling on saying “You should feel bad for me because I willingly signed a contract to enlist knowing the primary function of the Armed Forces is warfare”.
The hole grows steadily deeper, and the pile of bullshit around young Brandon is piling up.
Can no one save this asshole from himself?
*crickets chirping*
@Ithiliana: And just think…when I was younger, I was the “good guy”. Assholes aren’t born…they are made.
@pillowinhell
If your post was in response to Brandon’s then I think the points you bring up are a bit problematic. Not because they’re untrue, but because black college students are in college despite all those barriers. They’ve overcome those barriers AND met all the requirements that people who don’t face those barriers had to meet. The reason I’m saying your points are problematic in this context is because the argument about black students “earning” a spot in college always (IME) goes hand in hand with believing that black students are there to fill a quota because of affirmative action. Therefore, while everything you said is true, the real point is that black students are held to the same standard as white students and, even though there may be a minimum quota of how many minority students a college should have, the students that are enrolled all meet the requirements for enrolment.
Brandon: You really don’t seem to grasp that the issue is not what the other person, pregnant war vet or not, “demands,” but what is worth doing–you set up these litmus tests about people for what you will or will not do, or say, even hypothetically, and it’s bizarrely entertaining and frustrating to watch you explain and explain and explain as if it will ever make sense to people who are operating from an entirely other set of values and moral foundations than you are.
You are in Asshole-land.
Stop trying to explain it to the world; it’s making you look worse and worse.
War vets reasonably expect that when they come back they will be given decent work, medical care and help to reintegrate into civilian society when they need it. And rightfully so. When the government treats them shamefully, they do speak out and try to raise awareness of their needs.
That being said, oftentimes the hardest battle wounded vets encounter is the one where they come home and need support.
If Brandon broke his leg while enlisted in the Armed Forces, he would never demand anything from anyone, ever! He would just stand quietly on the bus with his clumsy crutches and aching leg, and never complain when the able-bodied teenager in front of him was sprawled in two seats during rush hour.
Somehow I can’t see that happening.
Got a concert band story that somewhat relates to the topic.
After one of our concerts, the percussion section was just hanging around on stage, waiting for a judge to finish conferring with the wind/brass sections. One of them goes backstage and grabs a chair. Now, one of the guys in that section was on crutches, so you’d think he was getting it for that guy. Nope. He sits right down.
Even better, the rest of the section follows his lead and gets chairs for themselves, leaving the guy on crutches standing until he finally asks one of the guys to get him a chair. At least six or seven guys in that section, not one of them thought to get crutch guy a seat. Oh, drummers. *rolls eyes*
BTW, I didn’t think you were directing your post at Kirby, I thought you were adding on to his point and felt that your post was not quite addressing the same thing as he was. Sorry for my miscommunication
@Ithiliana: Well, I can’t do everything for everyone…so I have to delegate.
Jesus fucking christ. Brandon, don’t blame other people for your douchiness. You CHOOSE to be a douche.
@Mollly: No, I would ask the teenager for his/her seat and not just assume that he/she should get up based on a non-existent “social contract”
For Brandon and the other trolls: MRI studies on how sexist men objectify women! (as compared to non-sexist men.)
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcikara/Cikara2011JOCN.pdf
I agree that the points I made do have the problem you identified shadow. I stand amazed that people of color so often surpass all the hurdles in front of them. That they are qualified for their jobs and degrees is quite clear to me. I know that affirmative action means looking for people who are fully qualified but would be overlooked on the basis of discrimination. I suppose I had best do more thinking on how to make that clearer. I’m still learning a shit ton of things I should have learned a long while back.
What if the teenager decided you didn’t ask nicely enough and didn’t move, Brandon?
“Ladies born ladies” is really transmisogynistic, even in jest/irony.
Brandon: Apparently you can’t do anything for anybody except yourself which is fine, but stop pretending there is a logic to your assholeness.
The issue isn’t what you do or don’t do but your complete and utter failure to realize that your little checklist (like Eurosabra’s numbers) is not how most people see the world or act in it.
You are a hollow man.
@Molly: Then I would ask another person.
The “social contract” exists; it’s what keeps people from beating you to a pulp just because you’re an utter douche. Yes, sometimes such contracts are also enforced by “laws.” They’re still made for a *reason.*
@Belle: No…nothing will prevent someone from beating the shit out of you. But the law (you know that actual, real, tangible, on paper kind of law) is there to punish you if you break it. The “social contract” is a non-existent thing. The law however does exist.
And, why do you think the law was written in the first place, Brandon?
See, your comment suggests that everyone WOULD beat the crap out of you if only they knew for sure they wouldn’t get caught.
For most people, tempting as the fantasy is, they still wouldn’t do it. Because, you know, “social contract.”