Fellas! Better hold on to yourselves, because I’ve got some terrible news for you.
Actually, you’d better NOT hold on to yourselves. Because this is the news, straight from that always 100% reliable news source, the Men’s Rights subreddit:
I wonder if manginal orgasms are still allowed?
One of his shortest appearance to meltdown ones, I’d guess!
Possibly? I’m still dying to know how one goes about getting these free scooters that make card pointless because, you see, my 86 year old grandfather doesn’t quite get around as well as he used to…
Though my mother, his DiL, did nickname him the speed demon, some days he zips right along with that walker! And it’s always hilarious to see him dancing with the thing, while singing WWII era songs. But yes, a scooter would be most helpful, and Pell was just positive they where easy to get for free in CT. And this is Important Info damnit!
Wouldn’t the free scooters only be for the wimminz, though, because feminazi gubmint? Or am I mixing Pell up with NWO?
Yep, Pell’s thing was about disabled people being free loaders. Mind you, in my grandfather’s case he’s an 86 year old WWII vet, so Pell can shove it, and there’s even a Doctor Who quote for this —
“Don’t you get it? You were fighting so little twerps like me could do what we want, say what we want. Now you’ve become just like them.”
Gah, that whole disabled are freeloaders thing. It’s so sickening and so fucking widespread.
Wouldn’t sexually frustrated soldiers be more likely to get distracted and make mistakes?
I have to say (from personal experience) that being sexually frustrated isn’t all that common among soldiers. When they need to, they wank.
In combat zones, (and in some training) one is os often not all that sexually aware; for some reason there are other things on one’s mind.
Certainly when one is patrolling/in a firefight, sex isn’t what one is thinking of (even when there are women in the mix).
There’s a forum thread with his biography, if you click the bit Pecunium linked to it was my first Pell Incident, on this very topic (oh Pell, you’re almost interesting when you come off as innocently clueless, eg a student of wtf you claim to be an expert in)
“…for some reason there are other things on one’s mind.”
I’d imagine being shot at, exploded, wtf-ever, would trump most other things, yes. Probably even such things as “nature calls”. Silly MRAs, thinking war is like Call of Duty with bathroom and snack breaks!
(Am I being too flippant? I’m sorry if so, sleep dep is setting in, I’m sure you’re familiar with that problem)
Time for me to attempt sleep I think (staring at the wall is just So. Much. Fun!)
G’night!
I should write some lyrics, but gosh, nothing rhymes with the word “hygiene.”
Listerine.
Phosgene.
Unclean.
Silly Teen.
Niters Argenti!
Other things that I gather might be on the minds of military personnel not in a combat zone (though this is mostly from Stuff I Heard about training):
officers
oh god tired
polishing boots
sleep
*sniff* I miss my bettas. They would come up to the edge of the tank to look at me when I got close.
Irving would swim around happily when I got home from work. Then the little bastard committed suicide right in front of me. Did he jump out of the tank in the middle of the night? Oh no, he waited until I was sitting there eating breakfast to do it.
Zuko died in the power outage from Snowmageddon, because the house was 50 degrees and I had no way to keep the fish warm. Sokka didn’t live much past that – probably too much stress.
Cloudiah: Here’s the Mother Jones article on the subject. I think pecunium or someone might have dropped this earlier, but just in case people missed it…
That was me. I forget where. I was happy to see it because it adds more layers to the, “Levitt is a twit” argument; in the, “that theory looks more like shit than it did when you were shown to have flubbed the numbers and then engaged in really tortuous special pleading because you’d written a bestselling book, and launched a second career and managed to leave your ass hanging in the wind”.
All while not mentioning that two of the other studies to support the idea of “freakonomics” also have his hand in the pie (i.e. he was the advisor of those students).
Oh, before I go, Pecunium, if you want to be really pissed, check the Hugo. Fucking. Schwyzer. link on my tweeter feed. Warning, your head might implode (someone dropped it in a thread here, so ignore me if you saw it already)
In a combat zone:
Officers: Not really a problem (at least not below the rank of Major) Training environments are different, and Colonels who are looking to get a star are assholes of the first water.
The only truly stupid/assholish Capt. I had the “pleasure” to serve under was laterally transferred when we got to theater.
Good thing too, because he’d have come home in a box.
Oh God Tired… oh yeah.
Polishing Boots. No. Even in training the boots are let go. Fix them when one is back in garrison. These days even garrison boots aren’t polished. I think the only soldiers who need to know how to polish are assigned to airborne units; which wear black books with Dress Greens, and tankers, who still have black leather boots (because suede isn’t as good at keeping your feet from burning in a vehicle fire).
Sleep: Hell yes.
Things one cares about in a combat zone.
Food
Sleep
Mail
Showers
Sleep
Mail
Showers
Food
A bad officer… can make things hard, but since most of those are echelons above everyday, and the Captains and Majors are insulation, it’s only asshole generals, (like the prick from the 3ID who send Lt. Colonels around to peek through camo-netting to see if people were more than six feet from their cots without a blouse and helmet; I shit you not, or idiots who were all up in our shit about hair and mustaches) that come in for much in the way of being hated.
And it’s harder to frag one of them, because they don’t leave the wire.
Sex… not that high on the list of pressing concerns.
@Argenti
Thank the FSM that we are living in a post-patriarchy! Imagine how assholish the MRM would look if women were still oppressed!
/sarcasm
Damn, that piece was poorly written.
@pecunium
I misread mail as mall and was wondering how that made the list of things to worry about above sex.
Some Gal – it’s those feeemales in combat! Because shopping!
I feel like I’m missing something, what’s so bad about that Hugo Schwyzer article? I get that the guy is a douchenozzle, but the article is pretty much saying that the concept of “post-patriarchal depression” is bunk and that women shouldn’t have to defer to men. Am I reading it wrong, somehow?
It does say that, sort of. It actually just documents what everyone has said on the topic, I think taking them at face value and then refutes about one-third of the bullshit that has been documented (although it is an important one-third) in the last couple of sentences. To me, at least (and I am already predisposed to dislike Schwyzer), it seems like he is overly sympathetic to a lot of what he documents and actually believes that if women kept emotionally catering to men, there would be fewer murders, but that asking women to do it is wrong.
What I mainly think is that a better writers would have been busy dissecting claims earlier than his second-to-last paragraph.
*seeming to take them at face value (basically, I think his tone is wrong for his point/the material)
and
a better writer (clearly not me unless I get an editor 🙂 )
Yeah, that Schwyzer article seems OK. He’s obviously making fun of entitled guys. Yes, he should shut up forever, but I don’t that article per se has much wrong with it.
@katz
At least we can agree that he should shut up forever!
Everyone agrees on that (I hope).