The dudes of the manosphere are concerned, deeply concerned, about the fate of young women today who won’t have the opportunity to marry dudes richer and better educated than they are, as they are apparently hard-wired by evolution to do. Turns out when women start investing in good educations and getting good jobs, some of them end up making more than most dudes! Clearly, this portends disaster, for these young ladies, and for civilization itself.
On his Alpha Game blog, reactionary racist doucheblogger Vox Day has a puckish solution to the Hypergamy Crisis: we should just eject a good chunk of women from our universities – as 36 of Iran’s universities have recently announced they will do, starting in the coming academic year, by making 77 different fields of study male only.
Vox explains his, er, logic:
[T]he Iranian action presents a potentially effective means of solving the hypergamy problem presently beginning to affect college-educated women in the West. Only one-third of women in college today can reasonably expect to marry a man who is as well-educated as they are. History and present marital trends indicate that most of the remaining two-thirds will not marry rather than marry down. So, by refusing to permit women to pursue higher education, Iran is ensuring that the genes of two-thirds of its most genetically gifted women will survive in its gene pool.
Well, that’s one … way of looking at it.
No doubt the Iranian approach will sound abhorrent to many men and women alike. But consider it from a macro perspective. The USA is in well along the process of removing most of its prime female genetics from its gene pool as surely as if it took those women out and shot them before they reached breeding age. Which society’s future would you bet on, the one that is systematically eliminating the genes of its best and brightest women or the one that is intent upon retaining them?
Let’s just say I’m going to bet on the one that respects and utilizes the talents of all of its people, instead of treating half the population as little more than egg repositories and baby-making machines.
This isn’t the first time dear Vox has addressed the dangers of allowing women into college. See here for some comments from him that are a good deal worse than the ones I quoted here. (TW: Violence against women.)
My contribution
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Dear Truthie,
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Just popping by to note that Jennifer Armintrout’s chapter-by-chapter recaps of 50 Shades are utterly hilarious and wholeheartedly recommended: http://jenniferarmintrout.blogspot.com/
I got into a huge argument a while back with someone on a writing site who thought Fifty Shades of Shit was wonderful.
Of course she was a Mormon so maybe she was just relating it back to Stephanie Meyer’s original piece of garbage … 😉
I just got to the bit where Christian explains that he likes to beat up and then fuck certain kinds of women because they remind him of his mommy. Below is an artistic interpretation of my reaction.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6HPH-nWCRbA/TpHqnN8cE9I/AAAAAAAAAb4/LxVuBuzBYv4/s1600/the_scream1-450×495.jpg
*hands Cassandra a beer or other alcoholic beverage of her choice*
To be honest, I scrolled right past his tl;dr comment, so I didn’t notice it.
I mean, that was the point where I stopped reading, so I can’t really blame you.
*Geekdar activate*
Anyone else always think of Command & Conquer when they see the word “silo”?
I missed the shuttle. My husband called to tell me to look for it but it had already gone past 🙁
tl;dr;sgbwys
also:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3r0mui/
I wouldn’t even go that far (and not to disregard that some women are looking for exactly that) – I’d say many women enjoy reading socially acceptable porn. That it’s about a woman being dominated says more about what kind of porn is available.
I don’t think beer is going to cut it. Imagine what would happen if I read the whole series? I’d be downing entire bottles of tequila to kill the pain. Apparently he sucks his son’s fingers (in a sexy way) at one point.
Also! Apparently after our horrifying couple fuck at one point while she’s pregnant the fetus starts moving around and our brain-dead heroine says that the daughter-to-be “likes sex already”. Yep, this started as a Twilight fanfiction all right. It’s hard to grasp the idea that a grown woman wrote that.
Polliwog, I love Jennifer Armintrout’s 50 Shades takedowns. I’m glad she read the series so I don’t have to.
Oh, great, Kavette showed up to tell us How Things Are in Nicaragua. My day is now complete.
@howardbann1ster – OK it sounds like the badge is going to suck out my soul. Is the badge a succubus?
Is the cake a lie?
I like snarking the existing posters:
http://qkme.me/3r0nmn
(compare to http://qkme.me/3r0hd6 )
Don’t forget to upvote the ones you like and downvote the stupid ones.
@CassandraSays
…. yep, I’ll be needing at least a beer or two to get over just that description. *shudder*
OMG! The reviews keep referring to this character who molested Pushy Asshole, and calling her Mrs Robinson, which I had assumed was a joke, but nope, the author actually created an older woman who the main character was molested by as a teenager and named that character Mrs Robinson.
There is a reason I only read reviews of that book and not the book itself. I do not drink and I really do not want to have to start.
The company that Pushy Asshole runs is called Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc. This woman may be quite literally the worst writer alive.
It’s terrible. All I knew before I bought those books was that it was porn people were reading. I thought maybe I should check them out, but I didn’t have the motivation. And then my friend revealed to me that they were Twilight fan fiction, and then I thought they must be so bad they’re good! So I bought them. All three. And no. They are not so bad they’re good. They are so bad, they’re fucking awful.
*SPOILERS*
The sex scenes were just awkward (during Ana’s first time, he sticks his thumb in her and then puts it in her mouth without warning and tells her “See how you taste”, and that’s before the “my very own Christian Grey flavoured popsicle” thought she has when blowing him), the relationship was abusive and utterly upsetting at times (he reduces her to tears while sexually punishing her for “defying” him by having a drink with her friend – a decision which spared her being kidnapped; so Christian cares more about being obeyed than her safety), and there was SO much creepy. Of her unborn daughter kicking in her womb, Anastasia says, “I think she’s ready for sex already”. WTF?!?!?!?????? WHO SAYS THAT? WHO THE FUCK SAYS THAT?
The reviews, however, are a thing of beauty.
You should see the reviews by folks in the BDSM scene who have read the books, it’s not flattering. First of all good BDSM erotica (hell, just not bad BDSM erotica) doesn’t demonize BDSM as something the love of a good woman can “cure”. Second it was so clearly written by someone who had no actual experience with BDSM, lots of typical play portrayed as so sick and twisted even the “Dom” in the book wouldn’t do it and some less than wise ideas like using cotton rope for bondage. That’s not even going into how fucked up their dynamic is.
I am reading a really bad romance novel that is written by someone who used to write well but has been phoning it in since her only child died in a tragic accident. Which means at least she has an excuse. There is no excuse for this other author. None.
Confession time: I only read the recaps and the reviews of 50 shades and not the actual series…the recaps were disturbing enough(although funny) but the main thing that disturbed me was….She wasn’t even INTO BDSM and was afraid of it. At least in Secretary and Story of O the women were actually INTERESTED in BDSM. Same with Ann Rice books…oh and Ann Rice actually has female doms in her books!