It’s a proud day for the dudes over at A Voice for Men, which is celebrating the landing of the Curiousity rover on Mars by giving dudes everywhere serious dude credit for the event, which apparently involved no women at all. Well, maybe a few. But it certainly didn’t involve any of the women in the women’s studies department at Columbia University!
Actually it would be rather difficult for that to be the case. Impossible, really, as there is no women’s studies department at Columbia. Instead, Columbia has an Institute for Research on Women and Gender, an interdisciplinary center that works in cooperation with the Barnard College Women’s Studies department.
In any case, that once sentence is the entire text of the post, which linked to a live feed of the landing.
But to make sure everyone understands the MAN-significance of this MAN-vent, the AVFM dudes promoted it with this MAN-tastic blurb on the front page. (I mean the blurb on the right, of course, celebrating MEN and their UTTER MASTERYof technology. Just ignore that bit on the left about the technical glitches that AVFM has itself been having lately.)
The comments are more or less what we’ve come to expect from the AVFM crowd. I especially liked these two, from a manly fellow calling himself ActaNonVerba.
His followup is a bit Anthony Zarat-esque in its utopian grandeur:
Black person who lives in “the ghetto” here. Yeah…not a very feminist place. Crime everywhere and all of that. So bad I’m afraid to tell people where I’m from. When I told people I lived in Compton most of my life, people are like, “God damn, man, how did you survive?” due to the city’s reputation as a crime-infested place, which, by the way, is fueled not by Feminism, but by a hugely mistaken cultural idea of machismo, along with bad economic conditions, lack of support programs (or at least, ones that are slow as hell) and a school district that is corrupt as fuck.
…you know, given how wrong NWO is on this matter, I think he will lose his shit when he discovers bell hooks’ book “We Real Cool”.
Red Locker: Compton? I was in Bell Gardens. My second stepfather was from Compton (actually from Dogtown, though I doubt that part of town is still called that).
Small fucking world.
Uh…this is self-parody, right? He doesn’t really expect us to suddenly smack our foreheads and go “OH! Of course! It all makes sense now! Feminism is TEH DEVIL!!!”, does he?
@Pecunium: Whoa, really? Wow.
Yeah, I don’t remember any part of Compton that is called “Dogtown”. Maybe it was somewhere in the 90’s? I don’t know, exactly.
unless the ‘we’ is jedi, i dont think that’s gonna be a problem
And… now I’m thinking about what a Star Wars novel written by bell hooks would be like.
…this is either the worst thing that happened to me today, or the best.
The only Dogtown I know of in greater Los Angeles is the neighborhood near the border of SM and Venice. (But there are many things about my hometown that I don’t know.)
Hello, LA-area peeps!
“A woman wants a husband, not an infant.” A man’s got hands and a tongue, he’s just as capable of cooking if he wants.
Also, if you want women who have literally nothing else to do with their time but clean and cook, hire a maid. That and a few middle class women have been the sum and total of women who had that kinda time.
I was hoping you weren’t a complete and total tool, but I apparently raised those hopes in vein.
Ah, my kingdom for an edit button. *vain
More than just capable of cooking, as owly so kindly informed us, “since all the greatest chefs in the world are men”. I guess maybe the husbands ought to be home during the dinner hour serving a fine meal to their wives!
Hey, cloudiah! San Fernando Valley here!
@pam
for that matter, how does working class hero owlslave know about ‘the greatest chefs in the world’
red_locker: Try the late 50s/60s. He was born in 1947. Let’s just say his appreciation of race relations was a bit different from NWOs, esp. his understanding of MLK.
He was lucky he didn’t get drafted. Managed to get out of “the ghetto” by learning to run mainframes. That was a good thing, but then PCs came in, and the available jobs in that field were reduced and suddenly he wasn’t getting work anymore.
Diabetes killed him, at 64, because he didn’t have the sort of healthcare he needed; because white guys were somehow better than he was for a job he had decades of experience in, to their not. Maybe it was just they could be paid less, but funny how it works out that way, that the black guy is extra, and the white guys are needed.
So yeah, I’m less than fucking agreeable to NWOs shit. Christ on a pogo stick, but his cluelessness, casual racism and active sexism are annoying.
His almost complete inability, in the past year, to come up with a new idea in his attempts at vitriol is just the icing on the cake, it’s no longer aggravting, just pathetic.
Oh, ooh, can I play!?
Ok, lets see …
@Rutee “A woman wants a husband, not an infant.”
Feminism desires that all men be infantilized. Feminism is a hate movement.
How’d I do?
I just skip over NWO’s comments nowadays.
My Calif. history:
Bell Gardens, 1975-1978
Paramount, 1978-1979
Bell Gardens 1979-1981
Brief stint in the Mojave Desert, Summer of ’81.
San Fernando Valley 1981-1993 (Sepulveda, Granada Hills, Reseda, Encino)
Alta Dena, 1993.
Monterey 1993-94
Cotati 1994
San Fernando Valley 1995-1999 (Sun Valley)
Arcadia 1999-2002
Pasadena 2002-2004
San Luis Obispo 2004-2006
Pasadena 2006-2008
East Palo Alto 2008-2011.
I got around. For those who care (NWO, this means you, you sadsack) EPA is something of a ghetto. Routinely in the running for most murders per capita in the US. Occasionally holds the title. We had a murder happen 50 yards from the front door while I was there.
I only respond to NWO when someone else has seen fit to reply. It’s not worth my time to try to find some scintilla of the entertaining in the midst of the godforasaken crap.
I think he might also be trying to out-do Steele in the Olympic Copy-Paste event.
I dunno, but I’m constantly in awe of the vast amount of knowledge that he has acquired, despite the feminist conspiracy to keep him down. He’s an evolutionary “Super Dog”, of sorts
@precunium: Oh, I see. Huh, knew my place had some history, but that? Learn something every day from here. And sorry for your death. 🙁 That’s shitty.
@Sharculese and @howardbann1ster: …Star Wars and bell hooks. Never thought I would see those two in the same sentence.
@Cloudiah: Oh, hey, more LA-based peeps. Cool.
“Women dominate in teaching these days and our schools are a joke. While I’m sure everyone’s well trained in gender theory, the reading, writing, math and science is the pitts.”
Spelling is also the pitts.
(NWOSlave, did I ever mention that I love you? And that just when my love starts to wane, you dive down deep and surface with yet another gem. And then the magic is back.)
@pecunium
San Fernando Valley 1981-1993 (Sepulveda, Granada Hills, Reseda, Encino)
No effin’ way–I grew up in Granada Hills during that time period. Maybe we met before? I would have been the little white girl with freckles and straight light brown hair, always reading.
I currently live in North Hollywood, just shy of Sun Valley.
Unrelated to the post, but you wanted feedback about any dubious ads: I’ve just been shown an Agent Provocateur ad featuring sexy underwear pictures. Not the end of the civilization but probably not ideally placed on a feminist site either.
I mean, for your stepfather’s death*
I can’t believe I messed that up.
Has Owly been eating acid on his Cheerios again? O_o