I mean, seriously?
I’m not even sure if I’ll be putting up a tree next year.
That said, Martha Marcy May Marlene is an awesome movie. You should rent it and eat cupcakes.
In the meantime, let’s celebrate International Women’s Day the right way. With a gif of Maude Lebowski saying “vagina.”
EDITED TO ADD: In case anyone is wondering, I have no idea who did that graphic; it’s floating around on tumblr. I found it courtesy of unknowable woman.
@Molly
It could work for cookies too xD
Fuck…you just know this stuff is gonna happen, kudos to Max for actually fucking googling for two seconds unlike the whiny, knee-jerk reactionaries on twitter http://gawker.com/5891720/international-mens-day-is-november-19-you-idiots
Because MRAs are true activists. They actually leave their basements and get shit done in the real world.
Oh wait, they don’t.
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@Quackers, I grinned at your link, and then I read the second comment that had been left:
It’s because we invented fire.
There are so many things hilariously wrong with the assertion that white males invented fire that I don’t even know where to begin, so I think I’ll just stick with laughing very hard.
Funny how corporations shit on decades of womens’ hard work fighting for their rights by regurgitating female stereotypes.
And yet we still have this kind of shit happening: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/arizona-senate-passes-bill-allowing-doctors-to-not-inform-women-of-prenatal-issues-to-prevent-abortions/
Don’t kill unborn children! Kill their mother’s instead! Seriously, a fucking fetus has more right to life than a woman. I hate this planet.
I for one would very much like to see a citation on the “inventing fire” thing.
Also, what’s with the Bratz dolls? O.o
Viscaria: The stupid, it burns. BURNS, PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!1!!eleventy!!!
Gunpowder was invented in China. Elevators were described in ancient Islamic texts. Writing was independently invented many places, but ancient China and Egypt were some of the earliest. Money was independently invented many places, but ancient Egypt was one of the first places to use standardized coinage.
I’m pretty sure that either lightning or volcanoes invented fire.
Among other things, I’m reasonably sure gunpowder was invented first in China. Depending on what you mean by writing (what, with pens? on paper? papyrus? clay?), it could be attributed to a whole bunch of cultures, but the earliest forms emerged in the Middle East.
@Joanna
That is absolutely disgusting and a violation of the Hippocratic oath.
Gotta love this matriarchy we’re living in!
I claim the peanut butter mochi that I am currently eating on behalf of Stalin?
Maybe the official food of International Women’s Day should be something Russian to reflect it’s evil scary leftist origins. Not a piroshki, obviously, since that’s a bit phallic. I would say a napoleon cake but…wait, are the French in league with us wicked feminists this week or was that last week?
Actually, if we’re going for a food that’s Russian in origin, can it be poppyseed cake? I don’t like donuts anyway.
also I was under the impression neanderthals invented fire
Also paper money was invented in China. I assume fire was invented somewhere in Africa since it probably had the earliest known traces of man.
Given that most of those things weren’t invented by white men, maybe the comment was intended as satire?
I’m pretty sure its satire. No one can be that dumb. Then again…MRAs….
It’s kind of sad that one has to wonder whether a comment that absurd was sarcastic, bit I guess that’s just the world we live in.
>>It’s because we invented fire. And the wheel.
I believe those were likely invented by proto-humans, so modern racial concepts probably don’t apply.
>>And gunpowder.
That was the Chinese, actually.
>>And telescopes.
Yep, apparently a German did that one. You got one! You threw enough shit on the wall that some eventually stuck!
>>And money.
Invented independantly in multiple places, including Sumer and China.
>>And writing.
Sumerians or Babylonians. Middle Eastern.
>>And elevators.
Got another I guess. I fail to see how elevators gave us any sort of intellectual or military advantage over other civilizations however.
>>And nuclear bombs.
That one is a bit better as far as military advantages go.
It’s a Poe sort of deal. The guy might have been joking, but I’ve heard people claim similar things with all seriousness. I don’t even know any more.
The poster has a mild point, though. The reason why Whites get better treatment is that they have access to bigger and/or better weaponry. Nothing more.
I claim the amazing (and cheap and good) chinese food I’m eating in the name of… not cooking, I suppose. I hurt too effing much to cook – loading my sister’s stuff up, then a six hour drive, followed by unloading and trying to corral a hyperactive 1.5yo who just discovered the wonders of carpet with extra-thick padding. SisterB and her family are overjoyed at their new house, but I am sad that I won’t get to see NephewB as much.
Isn’t the only thing on that list that’s correct is the atomic bomb? Yay white boys. It’s the only one I wish didn’t exist. Also, why do MRAs think they’re only descended from men? Parthenogenesis? Cloning? Even still, DNA match =/= credit.
Is the horse penis gleaming, opulent and Aryan? If not, I’ll pass.
There were some female physicists involved in the Manhattan Project. The Women’s Army Corp of Engineers also assisted in creating the first atomic weapons. The vast majority of people in the project were men, though.