The election is almost upon us, and the dudes at The Spearhead are none too happy about it. WF Price, apparently living in a different reality than the rest of us, has declared this “the women’s election,” complaining that “this election has been so over-the-top obsessed with women that it’s a bit surreal.”
The rest of the fellows have similarly edifying things to say about it all.
Gwallan, evidently sipping from the same cup of kool-aid as Price, remarks that
In nearly fifty years of serious attention to elections all over the western world I have never seen an election which involved this level of patronage toward a single demographic.
If it weren’t for the presence of male candidates it could easily appear to an outsider that there are no men living in the US.
An anonymous commenter takes this argument a step further, arguing that even the fact that the candidates are men is proof that women are really running the show:
It’s not a coincidence that both presidential candidates are male. Women want to be taken care of, whether married or single, conservative or liberal, and women want to be taken care of by a man. That is what leads to male presidents in our time.
Tom, meanwhile, Godwins up the thread with this completely reasonable and not-at-all-bugfuckingly hysterical observation:
Someone once mentioned that men’s situation is in some ways comparable to that of Jews in the run-up to Nazi germany – we have been vilified and deprived of our humanity. Once that psychological step is done, it is easy to abuse the “untouchable” class, because no one will stand for them.
I suggest getting your passport done, and be ready to GTFO if things get really nasty. No sane man would take the risk of marrying, having children or even dating in the US anyway – so there are really few reasons to stay, especially with this economy!
Uh, Tom, not to rain on your little paranoid self-pity parade, but you are aware that at the moment the rest of the world is not all unicorns and rainbows either, economically speaking?
Jimbo plays the race card, by which I mean, “straight up racist that sucker is, simple and plain.”
For me, it is simple. I have two sons who happen to both be white like me. In tune with the spirit of the times, Obama wants to continue to take power, freedom and wealth from white men like me and wants to continue to transfer it to women and minorities. So, despite the fact I can only guess what type of president Romney might be, I will vote for him.
Numnut is a bit pithier:
One nation,under cunt,divisible,with liberty and justice for cunts.
Ahamkara just wishes that the Repubs would live up to the batshit antiwoman rhetoric coming from Todd Akin and the rest of the Republican rape talkers:
I think the republicans have been using their bizarre rape comments as a dog whistle for men who are pissed off about feminism. I’m tempted to vote for them for this reason alone. However, I don’t believe they have any intention of actually improving things for men. So it’s really a cynical ploy to take advantage of men’s anger.
Zorro goes all apocalyptic on us:
This country needs to die before it can be reborn with healthy stock.
The feminist plague afflicting us must be utterly purged in order to purify North American society from its ilk.
Hopefully all these lovely fellows will stay at home tomorrow, stewing in their bitterness.
Diogenes: Any answers to the things people asked you about last night?
Pecunium, he’s a goldfish. Every time he logs on, it’s a new reality. Good luck getting answers.
Or responses to the things they told you?
Or is is more of the, “new post, start as if nothing ever happened before” routine?
@Fitzy
That cat looks like Lenin!
hellkell: He doesn’t like to answer me in any case. I think, perhaps, he doesn’t like me.
Whatever shall I do?
@thenatfantastic – Any conservative lurkers will have a field day with that one! That was Socks, First Pet of one William Jefferson Clinton when he first took the White House 🙂
Fitzy, I’ll see your presidential pet and raise you a cat with a title, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office! Here is Larry the Cat being unimpressed by Barack Obama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_the_Cat_-_May_2011.jpg
He could have just said “evopsych is bullshit” and that would have been, if not an original insight, at least a true statement. But no, he has to say “no one here has noticed that evopsych is bullshit” in order to keep up his clean record of always being wrong.
@pecunium
yourfuckingpollingplace.com’s fucking algorithm could use some work. It just inserts “fucking” after the first word, which does give me the gem of “Christ Fucking Center Community Church,” but it also gave me “Csu Fucking – Lory Student Center” and “River Fucking Of Life Fellowship.”
The OP keeps making me think of that toungue-in-cheek piece at finallyfeminism101.com called “Deraling for Dummies.” I bet a lot of people here have read it.
This section, about privileged people claiming minority status, is interesting:
“But it’s also an important step in affirming your privilege: Privileged People® are accustomed, after all, to it being “all about them”. Not used to simply sitting back and listening to othered people‘s issues, Privileged People® like to be the centre of attention at all times. It reminds them that they are important. By doing this, you will feel good about yourself and send a crucial message to the Marginalised Person™ (yes you really can diminish their experience by making it all about you, all the time!).”
Frees’s subjects are not taxidermy! They are live animals, or at least were at the time they were photographed. Admittedly, that kind of makes it worse.
In the preface to Animal Land on the Air, Harry Whittier Frees describes working with his subjects. “Rabbits are the easiest to photograph in costume, but incapable ot taking many “human” parts. Puppies are tractable when rightly understood, but the kitten is the most versatile animal actor, and possesses the greatest variety of appeal. The pig is the most difficult to deal with, but effective on occasion. The best period of young animal models is a short one, being when they are from six to ten weeks of age. An interesting fact is that a kitten’s attention is best held through the sense of sight, while that of a puppy is most influenced by sound, and equally readily distracted by it. The native reasoning powers of young animals are, moreover, quite as pronounced as those of the human species, and relatively far surer.”
@Shaenon
When I searched his name, it autofilled ‘taxidermy’ after it, so I thought they were. Phew, I’m glad they’re not. It’s not very nice to dress animals up, but it’s better than killing them then dressing them up 🙂
“It’s not a coincidence that both presidential candidates are male”.
What a stupid paranoid comment! “COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT!” Oooh the secret feminazis are putting men in power!
Um, but, they’re elected by….
“That’s just what they WANT you to think!!!”
Hey, i dont think feminists think it is coincidence either, but evidence of WOMEN running things? Un, yeahhhh. So how do they explain when Hillary was a candidate? Men running the country is misandry? I mean, ugh, so crazy ridiculous and stupid.
@Fitzy
Awaiting Owly meltdown in 5…4…3…
Can we invent some sort of game where we guess what NWO will rant about before he actually starts? Ever since he’s started shouting the same talking points over and over he’s been pretty boring on his own.
It is pitiful that so many Missourians like a guy that the Spearheaders approve of . Luckily, the latest polls show McCaskill has a four point lead, so I’m fairly confident she will win tomorrow if turnout is good. If anyone else had won the Republican nomination in the Missouri primaries, she would lost for sure. I know I will be obnoxious tomorrow with all my gloating. If by some chance Akin wins, I will wear a sackcloth and mourn until his term is up.
I have to thank Akin for showing his true colors and demonstrating exactly what feminists are talking about when we mention the war on women. The MRA’s live in opposite world if they see male politicians making decisions on whether or not women should have bodily autonomy, even after conception resulting from rape, and their reaction is to say that politics is anti men.
He should be more specific on how that purge is supposed to work. On the other hand, I’m sure it would be sickening to hear, so nevermind.
I should warn everyone, I’m still in all caps rant mode from earlier, please bear with me for a moment.
WHY THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO THINK THEY HAVE ANY MEASURE OF CREDIBILITY IN THE REAL WORLD. SERIOUSLY, THERE SHOULD BE SOME KIND OF PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES FREE EDUCATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE THAT WRONG. LIKE WHENEVER IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT YOU HAVE REACHED A CERTAIN LEVEL OF FRACTAL WRONGNESS ON THE INTERNET, YOU GET FREE TICKETS TO MAUI OR SOMETHING ON THE ONE CONDITION THAT YOU ATTEND CRITICAL THINKING AND BASIC HUMANITIES COURSES WHILE YOU’RE THERE. WHY THE FUCK DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY’RE EVEN BEING REMOTELY LOGICAL; AND ON THAT NOTE WHY THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY’D BE THE HEALTHY STOCK?! WHAT IDEA SERIOUSLY GOT INTO THEIR HEAD THAT THEY’RE “GENETICALLY SUPERIOR” IS IT LIKE SOME SECOND STAGE OF NICE GUY SYNDROME THAT YOU GO FROM BELIEVING YOU’RE “SUCH A NICE GUY” TO BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER MEN IN EVERY WAY? NOT TO MENTION THAT PRETTY MUCH ALL RESEARCH HAS SHOWN GENETIC SUPERIORITY, OR REALLY ANY FUCKING FORM OF SUPERIORITY TO BE COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT. SORRY KIDS, IF YOU WANT TO BE BETTER THAN SOMEONE ELSE, WHY NOT VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME HELPING OTHER PEOPLE AND BECOMING A PARAGON OF GOODNESS IN YOUR COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF WASTING AWAY YOUR TIME ON THE INTERNET COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FACT THAT WOMEN HAVE SOME MASS CONSPIRACY TO OPPRESS MEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY THROUGH CHILD SUPPORT AND SPERMJACKING OR SOME BULLSHIT LIKE THAT. SLAANESH WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.
Ok, that’s enough hulk-smashing for today.
I’m surprised no one here caught onto the fact that most of the people David quotes are dicks. I mean, do I have to do everything around here ?!!?
On topic for the election, a message from the greatest generation (warning for strong language):
@Katz
In this thread before me? Nobody.
@Hellkell
Whenever you have several arguments to chose from, choose the strongest of them.
@pecunium
If you want a thread necroed, you do it yourself, and I’ll respond. Others here have mentioned they don’t like necros too much, and as I respect that, I don’t do it myself.
And, I don’t dislike you. It just gets boring responding to a stepladder argument. It would be nicer if you numbered them instead.
Is the election over with yet?
@Nepenthe – I did a google search to top your titled cat, thinking I would bury this thread in executive pets. Then I was reminded that Putin has a dog. It always makes me sad when despots have animals. I don’t want my monsters humanized!
So is the election today?
No, it is tomorrow from 6 AM to 7 PM local times.
I’m surprised that Diogynes hasn’t caught on to the fact that evopsych being a crap non-science is so commonly accepted here that there’s no need to bring it up in every single thread, since all the regulars already consider “evopsych is ridiculous bullshit” to be a thing known by everyone who’s not a complete imbecile.