It’s official: Men’s Rights Activists are more obsessed with their “precious bodily fluids” than Dr. Strangelove’s General Jack D. Ripper. Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, many of the regulars are celebrating Boxing Day by sitting around on their computers worrying about evil predatory succubi burgling their sperm. Check out this little post, which has gotten 90 upvotes so far:
Yes, he really did just say “It’s as if your penis shoots magic IOUs every time you ejaculate.” If this is true, a lot of guys owe millions if not billions of dollars to a lot of old socks.
In the comments, other Men’s Rightsers shared their deepest concerns about the specter of spermburgling. SuicideBanana warns that the enemy may already be in your bed:
Reconstrucht worries about the money-hungry sperm-hunters lurking in bars:
And one future veterinarian contemplates giving up dating, in order to protect himself from the hypothetical women — sorry, soul sucking succubi — who might hypothetically use his future sperm in order to cash in big on his future vet money. Ca-ching!
Gentlemen: To fully protect your Essence, I suggest you ejaculate directly into a paper shredder, douse the results with hot sauce and arsenic, and pour the entire concoction into the nearest garbage disposal. Then flee the country.
So you met one unpleasant woman*. Why do you think it follows that all or most women are exactly like her?
*If we believe your story, which frankly, well, you don’t seem like the most trustworthy source of information.
Crap: Millions have kids, every year, without dishonesty.
@CassandraSays
“Also, I know this is obvious to everyone who isn’t a paranoid narcissist, but just because if you were a woman you’d be a horrible person it does not logically follow that most women are horrible people. If your essential nature is to be selfish and awful, well, that sucks for both you and the people around you, but it has nothing to do with your gender.”
I think that most (maby 70%) man and woman are decent people.
The rest (30% both man and woman) will abuse their power when they can.
I can’t decide if Thinker’s write-off of 1/3 the human race is adorable or aggravating.
Like, let’s extend this thing that Thinker is doing where we universalize our own feelings and experiences beyond just him for a second. If I really wanted kids and I was in a relationship with someone who didn’t want them, and I felt like time was running out? I’d break up with that person and go find a partner who wanted kids. Therefore that is what all women would do, because (insert paranoid argelbarle here). Also, I know a couple where the woman did just that recently, therefore it is what all women do!
(Thinking like an MRA is painful, you guys. I feel like I need to go rinse my brain out with vodka to wash away the ick, but it’s really a bit early in the day for that.)
@ howard
I’m going for option 3 – depressing.
Pfffft. No vet makes 100k out of school. I guess that’s not the least believable thing about this post….
But, Cassandra, only 1/3! How can there be real evil in the world, when a majority of people are good and would do good?
Also, people are just inherently good or bad… nothing systemic at all we could do to change that.
1/3!!!
*sigh*
Why do I sleep? I miss so much when I sleep and the trolls come out to play…
I’d say that 30 percent of the world is as amoral as you claim to be is 1: Delusional and 2: shows a greater ability to imagine people as being different from yourself than I would have thought.
But that doesn’t change it being delusional.
“Btw, Argenti (and Pecunium) — you have no idea how much I hate you both. My life could’ve been much easier without the knowledge of what SJS is. I’m currently on a very high dose of ibuprofen for inflammation, and NSAIDs are high there on the list. And then a few days back I woke up with a cold sore and almost wet myself with fear.”
Pecunium beat me to the explanation but I’m also sorry to have worried you.
First, yes, rare is commonly defined as —
Since we aren’t discussing meat, we need “not occurring very often”. Contra —
Source
So yeah, I’m a bit more concerned we men forcing their partners to get pregnant than with women forcing their partners to impregnate them. And btw, forcing your 10 year long partner to have a kid seems a real good way to find them dumping your ass.
@CassandraSays
“So you met one unpleasant woman*. Why do you think it follows that all or most women are exactly like her?”
Everyone is different, but I am still gonna be more careful in future.
Why is paranoid dude replying only to me? Other people are talking to you too, weirdo.
@pecunium
“The rest (30% both man and woman) will abuse their power when they can.”
“I’d say that 30 percent of the world is as amoral as you claim to be is 1: Delusional and 2: shows a greater ability to imagine people as being different from yourself than I would have thought.”
30% man and woman is my personal opinion based on my own life experience.
I think that power corrupts both man and woman.
But give us better number.
How many man and woman will abuse their power when they can?
@CassandraSays
Give me time. It is not easy for me to write in english.
I suspect that there’s an element of like attracts like going on with Thinker’s observations about morality. Certainly the percentage of people who’d pull those kinds of shenanigans is much lower in my experience, and given my upbringing that experience is pretty wide.
Thinker needs to go away and think some more.
OT, but apparently John the Otter is some kind of double agent:
A comment on this post. Note: the post is about a violent crime committed by a woman, and has a photograph of the injured man that is very difficult to look at.
@Some Gal Not Bored at All
“For the most parts, mothers really only decide how children should be raised when the father opts out of the decisions either explicitly or implicitly. And, of course, if you want someone who believes that fathers should be more involved and more like traditional mothers, there are feminists and feminism.”
Father can decide how children should be raised as long as mother allows him to do it.
In most countries mother can take the custody (by divorcing) from father.
I decided to not have kids because as a man it is possible (maybe 30% probability) that I will lose the custody of them.
The pain of losing my children would be too much for my to bear.
What is this obsession that Thinker has with 30%? Everything is 30% with him. Did that percentage cut you off in traffic or something?
@CassandraSays
I know other numbers too. 50% of marriages end up in divorce and 80% of divorced fathers lose their children in divorce court.
Troll obsessed with CassandraSays? This seems familiar.
How about you go look up the percentage of fathers who don’t even ask for custody? Have fun!
Also, again this should be obvious to anyone who isn’t an idiot, but the percentages on almost anything related to marriage or divorce will vary from one country to another, and there’s really no way to come up with percentages that are applicable on a global scale, since some countries don’t bother to track and report those numbers. If you’re a man living in Saudi Arabia and you get divorced then you have a 100% chance of getting custody of your kids, unless you actively try to avoid it. If you live in Japan you’re probably not going to get custody unless the mother is seriously fucked up. It’s particularly funny to see someone who doesn’t seem to live in the Anglosphere doing the “my percentages are universal” thing.
@ Lauralot
To be fair, nobody else seems to be in the mood to play whack-a-troll right now. It might help if he said anything original.
Yeah, it would be such a terrible hardship to live in a world where men get their children taken away from them and have no recourse and no ability to get their children back.
Good thing the rest of us live in the REAL world, eh? Much less scary.