Among those who celebrate Christmas, the holiday is often (for better or worse) a time to celebrate family, and to bring usually distant family members together – parents and their adult children, grandparents and their grandchildren, and so on.
A proposal from the guy behind the Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology blog would mean a bit of a change in this tradition: it would eliminate grandchildren from the equation utterly. Not just by excluding them from the holiday celebrations, but by eliminating them altogether – at least until his demands are met.
Upset that paternal grandmothers aren’t rising up en masse and joining the father’s rights movement to support their sons in custody disputes, Mr. PMAFT has proposed a Grandchildren Strike.
Here’s part of his stirring manifesto:
It’s one thing to not realize that divorce means that you can’t see your grandchildren before a divorce happens. It’s another to be fine with it afterwards as paternal grandmothers appear to be. This is an example of team woman in action. It’s a particularly extreme example in that grandmothers are willing to never see their grandchildren again just to support daughters in law they will no longer have a connection with.
The only way to deal with this is a true grandchildren strike, denying grandchildren from potential grandmothers. A grandchildren strike should not be necessary, but as we can see, paternal grandmothers don’t care when they can no longer see their grandchildren. The only way to deal with this is to not have children in the first place.
In your face, hypothetical future grandmothers!
Usually, I advocate surrogate mothers in India for men who really want children in the current feminist climate, but doing so protects our mothers from the consequences of their actions. That is unconscionable so perhaps we should all be on a grandchildren strike.
A brilliant plan, clearly. This “strike” is designed in such a way that it will have zero effect on the women Mr. PMAFT is angry with – paternal grandmothers. Instead, it’s aimed at mothers who aren’t grandmothers, whom I guess Mr. PMAFT assumes will sign up with the father’s rights movement en masse in order to support their sons in hypothetical custody battles over grandchildren that don’t exist.
It’s as if workers angry at their boss were to go on strike not against the company at which they work, but against a rival company on the grounds that some day they might conceivably work there.
Meanwhile, the plan neatly eliminates the problem at the root of Mr. PMAFT’s anger. Men can’t lose custody battles if they don’t have any children to have custody of in the first place.
Checkmate, feminists!
I wondered how you did the shading! I never got to grips with GIMP, the learning curve was pretty steep and it was a bit Adobe-esque* in the language. I use PhotoStudio, version 5.5 for preference, because its eraser has soft edges, very useful for layer edges.
Is there a word for being out-of-date geekish about one’s programs? 😀
*another totally real word
TThe picture is very good and aww. I have a warpoed sense of cute i will admit
I would comment on the story but due to combination of 324am and it being nauesus stim city over hear because unrelated stuff my brain is fail. Sorry.
RE: Kittehs
That’s funny, because GIMP is like the only arty program (besides MSpaint) I’ve ever found intuitive. And you can have a softer eraser, if you want. It’s pretty customizable.
As for the shading, I had a few layers. I had the initial pencil sketch, then the black lines, and I had two shade layers: one for basic shading, and the other I called foreground/background to slap some grays on the guy in back to give a stronger feeling of distance. Pretty simple.
RE: CWS
Hell, I found it pretty cute too. And no worries, feel better soon!
Well, Mum and I had roast chicken and Christmas pudding, but that was it.
Celebrate Christmas Japanese-style. If you’re doing it right, you’re having fried chicken and an overpriced 6-inch cake with your sweetie, whose pants you are totally expected to get into. The KFC and cake seems to come from a few decades ago, when that was the closest thing expats could get to a proper Christmas meal and the marketing people just sort of went with it (celebrate Christmas like an American! with traditional American KFC!), and I’m not sure how it became Japanese prom night.
Fun trivia: a woman who is edging into old maid territory is sometimes called a Christmas cake, after the tiny, richly decorated cakes that cost so much before December 25th and can hardly be given away afterwards. I am currently celebrating my first full year as a Christmas cake.
That is the cutest flesh-eating maggot I’ve ever seen! I just want to cuddle it!
Y’all got SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES, I got a mix-and-match sonic screwdriver set 🙂 (when my brother is awesome, he’s awesome) The thing nearly tops my iPad, and probably will top my iPad tomorrow, when I’m stuck cleaning up the mess from today…oh well, at least there’s enough chocolate to last well into 2013!
ABNOY, whatever it is you’re on, you should probably take a break from it. I’m pretty sure that was a bad sci-fi decades ago, and went badly because, lo and beyond! Some people actually enjoy heterosexual sex! (And dude, there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just that the rest of us would like to enjoy our varieties of sexytimes without being shunned for it — our sexytimes are just as normal as yours!)
LBT — I cannot believe I’m saying this, but that’s an adorable maggot XD
RE: katz and Argenti
Apparently I like drawing cute maggots! Who knew?
Nice Christmas maggot, LBT.
What a cute maggot. Huzzah! I have bookmarked the story to read later, when I am not sleepy and (slightly) hungover.
They are adorable. I’d want one for a pet if a) they weren’t flesh-eating and b) I have a dog. I’m not sure who it would be, but one of them would get eaten.
Here’s your Christmas present, everyone!
I’ll make a webcomic for it if people can suggest a good title.
OMG <3 <3 <3
A curse on my inability to think of good titles! All I'm coming up with is The Adventures of Pierre, which doesn't have quite the same ring as The Adventures of Naked Man.
The Adventures of Pierre is what I thought of, too, but I’m holding out on someone coming up with something better.
Katz, that’s wonderful.
Pierre’s Adventures in the Manosphere? No, that’d get all the wrong audience, ie. trolls.
Pierre: Sane Canadian
^Bit ableist-sounding, isn’t it?
Pierre, Battling Manosphere Ranters with Bewildered Common Sense and Canadian Courtesy!
(not really)
A Very Confused Canadian.
Every time I think these guys can’t get any more ridiculous the clown shoes get even bigger.
just when you think MRA’s can’t get anymore delusional, paranoid or stupid.
“Usually, I advocate surrogate mothers in India for men who really want children in the current feminist climate,”
what? WHAT? WTF does this even mean?
I’d like to know WHO all the ankle biters I see around belong to, if men are refusing to breed? Who, who, who? They don’t look like half-siblings, they can’t all be fathered by a few alphas!
“Pierre: Sane Canadian” = Pierre, the sensible Canadian, deals with illogical MRAs
Thoughts?
omg, omg omg Pirre the doctor with his hat & moose calendar! Best Christmas present ever.
Agree that “sane” sounds a bit ableist so maybe Pierre: Sensible Canadian? I’m also heading to a thesaurus for words meaning unflappable, put-upon, long-suffering etc. Katz, you’re a genius!
@Kaitlyn: it’s a common strain of MRA thought. Import women from a place where women are hideously oppressed. All that internalized oppression will keep them in line.
Er. “Submissive.”