This seems like a completely reasonable course of action:
Oh, by the way, I know a guy who’s a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and he can fly and turn invisible.
Not at the same time, though. When he forgets and turns invisible while flying, he plummets to earth.
“And in that victory, manboobzers, rejoice, unknowingly not seeming to know that normal people really don’t care about the state of affairs that manboozers revolve around.”
Rutee may have a nerdy avatar, but at least she doesn’t write things like “unknowingly not seeming to know”. I weep for the educational system that produced you, trollboy.
Wait, how does being nerdy disprove anything? Why should we care about the approval of “normal” people?
“Wait, how does being nerdy disprove anything? Why should we care about the approval of “normal” people?”
Kyrie, I’ve been trying to figure that out for damn near 20 years of listening to walking sacks of medical waste like tredgdrea up there. It’s just people looking to kick those below them to make themselves feel better or because they’re fucked-up mean and somewhere along the line they got the mistaken notion that the meanness makes them brave or special.
The one nagging fear they all have in common, even if they don’t consciously realize it, is that one day they’re going to aim a kick at someone that looks weak and come back missing a foot. The anonymity of the internet does a bit to assuage that fear, but it never goes away completely.
tredgdrea:
Well, of course they wouldn’t. They also wouldn’t know what I meant if I said I was a Pharyngula or Butterflies & Wheels supporter. No disrespect to PZ Myers or Ophelia Benson, but while their fame is genuine in some circles, I doubt they get stopped in the street especially often.
Can you? How? If you took the comment literally, as in “I’m a man boobs supporter”, it might make you sound as though you have an intriguing fetish, but I can’t for the life of me work out how you’d plausibly link that to pedophilia. I certainly can’t imagine this hypothetical person in the street making that leap.
As with your pedophile assumption, I think there’s a certain amount of projection here. There is certainly a lot of stupidity contained within David’s posts, but he’s quoting it for the purposes of mockery, something made explicit by the banner at the top. Most reasonably intelligent people would recognize this – and I suspect the vast majority of people I hang out with in the real world would absolutely get what he’s doing and might well start contributing comments themselves.
My mother never had a basement, isolated or otherwise, and I haven’t lived with her in over 25 years – indeed, I moved out more than half a decade before the Internet became a going concern in my life.
You see, that’s the trouble with insults like that – they’re so specific that they barely apply to anyone, and so they end up being completely ineffectual.
I’m a geek. A fat geek. And unashamed of it.
Stupidity is cancerous? You do realise, right, that cancer isn’t catching and therefore that “being cancerous” is a terrible reason to run away from something? You might mean carcinogenic, since avoiding carcinogens is an excellent plan, but I very much doubt that Manboobz is carcinogenic.
I don’t stop strangers in the street to tell them which websites I enjoy reading. It would be rude.
The question is: if you were to say to a stranger in the street “Down with the whoriarchy/matriarchy, let’s fuck their shit up, hurray for the the MRM and a Voice for Men! Let’s all go our own way!” or any combination, would said stranger high-five you or whether they would run away and maybe call the police.
The MRM isn’t well known, therefore the main site which mock it isn’t well known. Shocker.
However, if you go to anybody, and talk them about feminism, well, they’ll still wonder why a stranger is talking to them, but at the bare minimum they will have heard of it.
No, actually. Female is an adjective; modifying an adjective is more the province of an adverb than an adjective. But go on
Okay, first off, if you can recognize a Mismagius at that resolution, you probably know Pokemon as well as I do, so I would probably not be throwing stones about it. Second, the only ‘issues’ I have are that I have a critical shortage of nice hats, which a Mismagius does have. Only a twit would outright deny that all forms of children’s entertainment can, categorically, fail to entertain an adult. Some children’s entertainment is just plain old good. If you like the style of game, I’d say pokemon falls into that category with no issues.
Statement assumes facts not in evidence. To the extent anyone here does, because I don’t know everyone’s offline life, it’s probably not from manboobz.
Amusement is a lack of security? News to me XD
You know what would be even more pathetic? Being so incapable of engaging arguments that you had to focus on avatars as the one place you think you can win! XD
Yes, that’s entirely true; if I did that, I would only draw blank stares. I identify as a feminist, which has in a growing way caught on over the last half century, not a manboobz supporter. You MRA idiots would just draw confused “huh?”s, because the MRM has zero traction though XD
See, this is just a terrible choice of words, on multiple levels. First off, cancer patients don’t evoke fear like that. It isn’t contagious. People are afraid of getting it, but not *catching* it off cancer patients. You’re looking for “Leprous” or some other very contagious disease.
Second, are you really going to contend that a population that elected George W Bush (Granted, only once) is terrified of stupidity? Come now, have some sense.
So, one second we’re unknown nobodies and the next we’re so well known as to produce mass negative publicity? Consistency, you don’t has it.
Mind, I would totally expect some derision, as well as whiny defenses of some of the less ‘obviously’ misogynistic crap (Like victim blaming), from some people, if they knew of it. But I don’t mind, because if I was going to let ignorant jackasses’ opinions bother me too much, I’d have started with not being a nerd two decades ago.
Come now, is that it? “I BET YOUR FRIENDS WOULDN’T LIKE YOUR BEING A FEMINIST”. You think they don’t all recognize my pseudonym?
@Rutee Katreya: Second, are you really going to contend that a population that elected George W Bush (Granted, only once) is terrified of stupidity? Come now, have some sense.
*NEARLY SPITS COKE ZERO OUT OF NOSE*
*hands you the internetz*
Good comment overall, but woots, I loved that line.
Actually, I’ve run into other Manboobz readers at random on the street twice. True fact.
Re: Holly
Oh, Holly, I’ve run into random people who’ve read my COMICS on the street twice. (Both were in a comics context, but still, how the hell did that HAPPEN?) The more humans on this planet, I swear, the smaller it gets…
–Rogan
@Holly
Have you really? not sure if serious or being sarcastic lol….if its true that’s pretty neat. I’ve told many of my friends about this blog but they don’t give a shit about MRAs or gender issues so it’d be cool to meet another Manboobz friend irl
Rutee Katreya
[quote]No, actually. Female is an adjective; modifying an adjective is more the province of an adverb than an adjective. But go on[/quote]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/female
“female [fee-meyl]
noun
1.
a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
2.
an organism of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces egg cells.
3.
Botany . a pistillate plant.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or being a female animal or plant.
5.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a female person; feminine: female suffrage; female charm.
6.
composed of females: a female readership.
7.
Botany .
a.
designating or pertaining to a plant or its reproductive structure that produces or contains elements requiring fertilization.
b.
(of seed plants) pistillate.
8.
Machinery . being or having a recessed part into which a corresponding part fits: a female plug. Compare male ( def. 5 ) .”
You were saying?
Stop digging yourself further into stupidity.
But seriously, how old are you for liking children based conceptions? I’m intrigued.
Oh noes trag!! I started drawing, painting , sculpting, writing and my special favorite !embroidery! when I was nine! Guess I’ll have to give up all those childish pastimes!
I still read comic books, what’s it to you Treg? Does it hurt you when I watch sci fi shows too? I mean they’re total flights of fantasy too. Perhaps you could list suitable, non offensive to you pastimes for adults.
RE: tredgdrea
You mean… you don’t enjoy Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, comics, Disney movies, roller skating, Studio Ghibli flicks, Mario games because they’re “children based conceptions”?
What a sad, lonely life you must lead. Is YA at least okay? Please tell me that YA at least is okay.
–Rogan
Quackers – I really have. One was a Manboobzer I’d previously met at a meetup that I ran into at random at the train station, and one was a guy I just met and happened to talk about blogs with and he said he loved Manboobz.
Treg – Why do we have so many trolls who love to quote the dictionary? Merriam-Webster really was never intended to be a moral authority, or even a linguistic one.
Saying “you’re not a woman, you’re a female” was just a cheap, dopey insult, and there’s really no reason to start claiming it was an act of great linguistic integrity.
One time I was trying to explain to a bunch of friends what Manboobz was and it turned out that one of them reads here a lot, but never comments. True story.
@tredgdrea
Pokemon is awesome.
I never understood this sharp divide between “children’s things” and “grown-up things”. Most adults I’ve met are as petulant, immature, myopic, and selfish as children are. Consider typical MRAs.
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
~Simone de Beauvoir
This “sentence” makes me want to punch somebody.
Holly & Molly
That’s pretty awesome. I’m gonna ask people I meet what blogs they read now haha
tredgdrea tries to use Shaming attack!
It is not very effective.
(brought to you by a parent with two kids who love Pokemon, and who remembers when it first premiered on TV.)
PS, I still read manga and comics, and I am way too old to even be on the internet!
I was an adult when the internet became useable by everyone.
Excuse me, I must shoo those kids offa my lawn again.
I wonder what tredgdrea would think of my avatar, a cute pink baby warrior that eats things…
Psychoanalyze me, baby! 😀
http://xkcd.com/616/
If this is not ashamed, I don’t see why anybody should.
As a fat cartoon bee from a discontinued web cartoon show, I feel I have a lot to add to this conversation. XD
My avatar is Calvin and Hobbes being zombies. Does anyone here feel like disputing the genius that Bill Watterson created?
Actually, you’re right. Since the “state of affairs” that manboobzers revolve around is the MRM, and since no one in the real world gives two shits about the MRM, then yes, by extension, no one cares about the jokes that David makes.
Except, of course, the people that willingly come to this website.