There’s a new blog out there that I think a lot of you will appreciate. I would say “enjoy,” but your enjoyment of it will no doubt alternate with despair over the future of the human race. Which makes it sort of like this blog!
Anyway, the blog is called PUA.txt, and, as the name suggests, it features horrible quotes taken from forums and other websites where would-be pickup artists like to congregate.
My favorite quote, of all those featured there, is probably this exceedingly whiny one from The Venusian Arts forum, in which a PUA by the name of Rick Tiero defends another commenter who refers to women as sluts. While other PUAs there are annoyed by the slut basher – because calling women “sluts” makes them defensive and less likely to want to have sex with PUAs — Rick has a different take. Addressing himself to one of the forum’s few female members, he writes:
Don’t try to judge him, you don’t know what the fuck he’s been through. Stuff like that can come from fucked up parents or even kindergardens that forcefeed small boys with religion and evil feminist propaganda, totaly destroying someones sexlife in the later years.
Of all the guys in here, very few are here by choice. You feminists have created spank for your own ass by compromising genderoles for ages now, don’t bitch about it. You women ruined our fun first by being a somewhat moral police yourselves! It is called bad karma.
No man wants to do whats wrong with women, they have been taught wrong by a society in genderless chaos created by the feminist movement, a movement so selfish and evil that I like to compare it to the new age nazis. In this society women are expected to not show body because a man is supposed to like her for her personality, like a woman likes a man.
It is doomed to fail, because people are not built that way. I bet OP has seen alot of porn and wouldn’t mind fucking all of the women in that room, even the fattie, bacause it’s nice for a change. Deep inside of him there is a good PUA just waiting to surface anytime soon.
And you women should really be more understanding to prude men! Put your self in my shoes! I can search for vegetables on the internet and find “Gorgeous teen playing with a cuecumber” And for me being a guy, that is something I’d like to watch!
Man! I can’t even go to the store and buy myself some bread without walking by the magazines with naked women all over it. It’s like wherever i turn there is a pair of titties mocking me, looking at me with it’s poking eyes. In the local park they have made this figure of a naked woman, but it’s made of stone. You women don’t have to go through any of that.
Yep, that’s right, it’s that old argument: Sexy women oppress men with their sexiness!
The most horrifying comment I’ve found on PUA.txt so far is probably this one from RooshV’s forum about the pros and cons of having sex with disabled women:
Yeah, I’m not even going to touch that one.
There’s also a PUA.txt twitter account, which features still more horrible quotes. (I only wish it provided links to the sources of the quotes like the blog does.) Here are some of its greatest hits so far.
PS: Do any of you ladies know where the nearest bank is? I need to drop off some gold.
@aworld: I know the discussion’s moved on, but to be fair to those who self-diagnose as autistic, not everyone has the money or access to doctors (I was lucky when I was diagnosed in that my campus had free services, but even then they were the only place that could diagnose in the entire county and had a waiting list of two years) and there are certain doctors that will only diagnose if you fit very narrow symptoms of the spectrum and/or strike them as the “right” kind of person to have autism (i.e., a white, male, just beginning school aged child). My own elementary school didn’t even consider it when I was evaluated, and I didn’t get a diagnosis until this past May at age 22. I knew I was autistic ever since I learned about it at 14, but my parents wouldn’t have me re-evaluated, so I just kept my mouth shut about it and never got help or resources until college.
Granted, there are some assholes out there who just claim autism as an excuse to be assholes, but I think there are a lot of people who just don’t have other options.
There are lots of people in Sweden too who self diagnose, despite the fact that our health care is payed for by taxes. At least some say it’s because you can’t trust doctors, so self-diagnosis would actually be MORE reliable. I don’t buy that, but I don’t think the usual motivation is wanting to be an asshole… I think it’s more common to self-diagnose as autistic among people who are a bit shy and not exactly the life of the party. There seems to be this widespread idea that if you’re NT then you HAVE to be super-social, have tons of friends and be loved by everyone. That’s sort of the ideal everyone’s supposed to live up to… Unless you’re autistic, and can blame your failure of living up to this stupid ideal on your diagnosis.
There’s a meme in there somewhere…
This. I’d estimate that my breasts weigh about 3-4 pounds each. They are not going to float in space.
Wreck-It Ralph is so amazing, definitely go see it!
I’ve never heard the term demisexual before, but I fit the description, sort of. I hadn’t ever thought of it as a separate category before. It’s useful as a description, but I honestly haven’t felt any oppression or anything over it (not to erase anyone else’s experience). If anything, it seems more like the ‘expected’ way to be. But this might be different for guys (especially in environments with a lot of gender policing) maybe?
Did somebody say Twinkies?
http://youtu.be/nqM7AFL4ixA
I consider myself demi sexual. The thing for me is that if I never had sex again, I’d be cool with that. I would love to have a purely romantic, cuddly relationship but its not likely that I would meet someone who’d be cool with that if Beloved and I broke up.
I really don’t see any point in sex, and generally can’t be arsed to search for a sex partner, but I don’t have the aversion to sex that aces do.
I think here that what’s missing is that most people will want sex and or a partner at some point whereas demis and aces are just as happy without. There is little to no desire for sex, something that I think causes more problems for men (in general) than women. Really, the only people who don’t have sex are monks, and even then its supposed to be a huge sacrifice and discipline.
What the fuck is with that fat guy video?
Dude, grow up.
drst, now I am distracted by “Star Trek Pointing At Things.” I hope you’re happy. *sighs*
Speaking of Star Trek, I wonder if Brittany Diamond has any new episode analysis’s up…
Katz – lol to that personality meme!
For me (me only, again, not wanting to generalise) I think the term demisexual carries an implication of lesser or missing out – like it refers to the cup half empty vs cup half full thing. Which I know it doesn’t, particularly if it was self-chosen, as I presume it was, rather than imposed. It’s like … well, if I think of it applying to myself, it’s like it’s saying that sexual attraction following rather than preceeding knowing and liking someone is outside the normal sexual range. And to me that just seems out of whack, and a pretty narrow definition of the interested-in-sex ranges. I don’t see “primary sexual attraction” as a definer of being sexual. I don’t see anyone but Mr Kitteh as sexual or potentially so. I’ve only got to look at a photo of him and I go all wibbly. I’m sexual … I’m just really selective. 😉
Demi in this sense means somewhere in between, to me. I’m sure plenty of people think I’m missing out on something.
Sexual attraction just doesn’t happen for me at all. I don’t experience it. That being said, I don’t mind sex and I find it moderately pleasant, just not something I can be bothered looking for.
Having some type of label is moderately comforting, in part because I know now that other people have similar experiences. I’m not broken, there isn’t something wrong with me, I don’t need medicine, or the right man or the right sexual orientation or whatever. And I did spend some of my youth thinking that something was very wrong with me.
Of course, choosing this label also causes headaches too. Especially when explaining to partners certain aspects of why.
When you say the word “demi-” to me the first thing I think of is old-school D&D’s use of the term “demihuman” to refer to elfs, dwarfs, halflings, half-orcs, etc., basically any playable race that wasn’t human but humanoid (the games since the 90s have preferred the term “humanoid” instead — but humans are classed as humanoids since 3rd edition), so I have bad associations with “demi-” already.
Not to tell anybody how to define themselves.
Well, I’m not quite a stereotypical ace and frigid isn’t a nice word either. If you got a better wording I’d love to hear it.
Also, some people refer to themselves as grey aces, demi sexuals and demi romantics are a subset.
I don’t, pillowinhell, so I guess I shouldn’t have put in my oar. I’m sorry.
Oh its okay I didn’t take any offence. To be honest your take on demi just highlights the problems of labels. Words mean things, but the meanings always varies slightly between individuals based on experience. That and the fact that demi isn’t going to explain much to people who aren’t familiar with asexuality.
A useful and awesome Tumblr: Unfuck your habitat. Changed my life, dude.
I suspect the better way involves an anti-gravity device, whole-body immersion, and a disruption of the space-time continuum. In the meantime, if I can lose another forty pounds, my doctor will talk to me about breast-reduction surgery. My back and shoulders are very excited about this, my tastebuds and appetite are less so.
Mine aren’t hemisphere-y when they recline.* They vanish into my armpits. I don’t know how you measure the volume of that. I suspect lasers.
* They’re sort of a hemisphere and then almost a demihemisphere tacked on, then severely squashed.
I went to an art museum with an 18-year-old, uh, man? once and we looked at a painting of the important parts of a nude woman laying on a bed. Her breasts were realistically depicted as not having nipples pointed toward the ceiling, not in an “I’ve had four children” sort of way, but in an “I’m 23 and have a C cup” sort of way. He exclaimed “Oh my god ew!” and I asked him if he thought that breasts floated.
I remember reading an article about this – it was all about the idea that contrary to fears that porn will turn men into sex-crazed fiends, it’s actually made a lot of men unable to have sex with women whose bodies do normal woman things, like the way that breasts spread when a woman lies down.
Isn’t that sort of a dodgy way of putting it?
Probably is, actually, I just don’t know a good way to group together the body stuff that guys like the one Nepenthe is talking about tend to freak out over that are kind of common and unremarkable. “Boobs spread out when you lie down”, “pubic hair is not uncommon on adult bodies”, “most women’s bellies are kind of soft even if they’re fairly thin”, that kind of stuff.
Maybe breasts float if you have nipple rings and tie helium balloons to them, but that’s not exactly sexy.
I’m assuming the non-spreading boobs come from implants? (I know realistic boobs can come from implants, it just depends on where the implant is put and the type of implant.)
That’d do, wouldn’t it?
@CWS
What I was getting at was is that plenty of women have very small breasts, implants like you mentioned, or don’t have boobs at all for whatever reason
Small breasts also kind of spread out when the woman lies on her back, in my experience.
(I did go to an all-girls boarding school, after all, so I’m looking at a pretty substantial sample size.)