Up all night. Too tired to scan the manosphere for weird reactions to Obama’s victory.
But here are some scenes from last night as a couple of backwards white dudes attempted to come to terms with the new demographic realities that enabled Obama to win the election despite getting a smaller percentage of the white vote than Michael Dukakis did in 1988.
Karl Rove, on Fox News, responded to the new realities with good old-fashioned denial, arguing with the number-crunchers for Fox after they called Ohio as a win for Obama. Rove must have thought he’d bought the election good and square!
Bill O’Reilly, meanwhile, responded with, well, there’s really no other word for it than racism:
Also, while we’re talking demographics, here’s a nice pithy breakdown of the gender gap, from ABC news:
Women favored Obama by 11 points while men backed Romney by 7; the gender gap has been bigger just once, in 2000 (when men were +11 Bush and women were +11 Gore). Add in marital status and the gaps become garish: Married men for Romney by 60-38 percent; unmarried women (younger, more Democratic, more aligned with Obama on social and role-of-government issues) backed the incumbent by 67-31 percent.
Grouchy entitled white dudes, get used to it.
Wow. I have worked in a variety of settings over nearly two decades, with a pretty diverse group of people, and I have never seen women “square off” against each other in the way Spearhead dude describes — at least not as groups. Aging lesbians seem to get along just fine with young single (or married) mothers as a rule; people with different religious backgrounds and/or political beliefs mostly figure out ways to get along, etc. I’ve seen lots of racial tensions, but I’ve never seen them break down on gender lines.
Or more in line with reality: “people sometimes experience interpersonal conflicts; some deal with those conflicts better than others.”
Princessbonbon, that’s the main point, but he has thrown in so many other delectable goodies to mock.
He’s not The King for nothing.
Well why not? You certainly imagined it, dude.
I’d like to see how he would describe a single dad who needs help to feed his kids. I want any struggling parent to get the help they need, but I’m just a bad, old bleeding heart liberal that doesn’t think children should starve. This must oppress those poor little dears at the Spearhead.
Oh, and don’t get me started on how hypocritical those MRA’s are for saying poor moms should pay for their own kids, but they scream like hell about paying child support.
I hear that women who have babies sometimes disagree with other women with babies, but I suspect that was a vicious rumour started by jealous women who don’t have babies to create dissent.
And my TL/DR summary of his rambling mess would be “Waaaah waaah, women won’t give me the time of day because I’m a raging asshole”.
@princessbonbon
There are already programs similar to this, my sister in-law is in school now to become a physician’s assistant and she and my brother are looking into it to help pay the bills. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the program, but I think it’s like if you volunteer for three years, they’ll pay $30K of your debt, and if you go for six years they’ll pay all of your debt.
I lost my blog
Vitamin D — what happened?
Neither do most men, raging Spearhead asshole.
Talacaris, that’s nice. Run along now, the grown-ups are talking.
I’d bet that Troll king has never ever seen two feminists talking IRL. The straw ones in his sure are busy.
No, creepy ranting dude, you have not.
Not really up with the current thread topic, but here’s a dude who is throwing an epic temper tantrum because Obama won:
http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/11/the-end-of-liberty-in-america-only.html
Basically, he’s cutting ties with all Obama supporters including family, friends, employers, clients, co-workers, etc. and he plans to boycott businesses that accept welfare money, and protest outside Wal-Mart because they accept food stamps.
Oh god… I didn’t know toddlers could vote in the US… 😛
Christ, what a dick.
WTF do they have against taking minimum precautions when they climb into multi-ton hunks of metal and rubber and rocket down the road fast enough to kill themselves (55 mph)?
I’m getting a BIG tub of popcorn.
(And I’m stopping now).
@Falconer
Maybe they take a similar approach to car driving as some Celtic tribes took to battle – that it is predestined by the god(s) whether they live or die, so why wear armour?
We all know how that turned out (spoiler warning: the Romans won).
Is it wrong that I now want to friend him on Facebook? Oh wait, others have had that idea too.
I’m just waiting until this guy has to go on welfare because he can’t get a job (Democrats in the workplace, violating the sanctity of his bodily fluids!) and has alienated anyone willing to give him a sofa and food in return for housework because he’s such a tosser.
That probably counts as a terrible thing to say, and I’m going to go sandpaper my loins.
I bet he wouldn’t stoop to housework because he’s a maker. He’s just a maker whose talents are ignored or hated by all the takers he’s surrounded with.
Besides, laundry is women’s work. What? He’s just saying it like it is! /snark
Seriously. Do people like this think that loudly expressing your disdain makes you look morally superior, or there’s going to be someone on welfare who is going to overhear and go off welfare or become a libertarian, or what? Because all it does it make him look like a raging tool.
Also, epic lols will ensue when he loses track of which checkers he’s done this to and tries it twice with the same one.
O.O
WHAT have you been doing with them?
@Katz: He should hang a big, plastic screwdriver around his neck. It would save strain on his vocal cords and his facial muscles.
On Libertarian Republicans’ choices for Conservatives Going Their Own Way:
Quite a few of the old articles on that site explain how Obamacare is a Very Bad Thing. So I’m kind of amused that of the six expat paradises listed, five have universal healthcare.