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?
Argenti – I’ll watch that fish video tonight (no sound on the work pc). 🙂
“Assume writers know what they’re doing” *dies*
Kitteh — you definitely need the sound! For best effect you should find a way to randomly have it start while you aren’t paying attention, the “huh? Oh it’s the fish” factor makes it extra adorable.
LOL what a cool idea!
I’m reminded of less-important-than-he-thinks-he-is Slymepitter and ex-Pharyngula troll Franc Hoggle and the bizarre story about jerking off to a camgirl in a one-on-one session that got him banned from Pharyngula. At the time no one could figure out exactly why he felt the need to try to rub PZ’s nose in it when it’s something damn near no one could possibly give a flying fuck about. I guess this explains it.
Thanks Argenti, I thought the studies looked pretty solid but it is nice to have that confirmed by someone with a better grasp of both math and statistics.
teiresias – that sounds so typical of these creeps. They seem so fixated on non-consensual sex, or sex with inanimate things (pictures of women and so on) and then wax indignant when reminded that the first is rape and nobody gives a shit about the second, except insofar as it emphasises what misogynist losers they are (a la DKM).
@Argenti Aetheri
We had a lot of fish when I was very young (too young to remember what they were), but they were so much fun. Although me strongest memory of them is of one of our fish having babies in one of those little hangs-in-the-bigger-tank tanks and the baby fish swam out through the holes and got eaten. Each day, there were fewer and fewer little teeny fishies until there were none. 🙁
(Not the only pets we had eat their young, but the first.)
cloudiah — this is almost too perfect to be true territory, I sent them to my not-an-ex for a second opinion, but idk if ze will get to them, what with grad school and all 🙂
We met as research methods lab partners though, so I’m sure ze knows the statistics (and, unlike me, is still using them)
It may well be just that strong of a correlation, but after so many years of theories that failed to really explain the problem I’m a bit wary of one overarching theory covering all the bases this well. The math does check out though, and correlation is not causation but it looks solid.
@The Kitteh’s
They can’t handle the fact that no one cares because they can’t fathom being that unimportant. (Then, you couple that with sex, which is even more important to them than themselves if such a thing is possible, and they really flip out with “pay attention to me and my sex life” antics.)
Some gal — aw, that sucks, my tank-of-cories is because they bred, and I felt bad enough about the eggs that got picked off while I was moving them, to have the fry get eaten must’ve been terrible, particularly as a kid!
Yeah, my clown loaches have cory friends, and hilariously neither species can ever decide which species to school with. I’ve had cories following loaches, loaches following cories, loaches that wouldn’t share cave space with other loaches pick a new spot when the cories took over…they’re adorable.
@Argenti Aertheri
And I accidentally dropped the extra r. Apologies.
They were all so sparkly and fun to watch and the light was nice and relaxing when we were sitting in the living room. I would kind of like to get some fish again, but with apartment living, they aren’t really practical to move with us and many places have restrictions on the sizes of tanks iirc. They are on my someday list alongside two more cats. 🙂
Re UK law: it’s not perfect. Some of my (feminist) meatspace friends have bemoaned the fact that there are acts that it’s perfectly legal to do but heinously illegal to film.
Some gal — no worries, and just Argenti is fine btw. I never had tank size limits, but then again, I never mentioned that it was a 55 gallon tank. As for moving them, plec’s a fucking nightmare to move; the loaches are a royal pain to catch, but they’re small enough to transport easily; any of your standard fare 1~2″ community fish can be moved in an empty wide mouthed container (beverage, pickles, whatever’s handy, though I do stick with plastic myself)
I moved plec nearly 500 miles, moving a tetra/danio/etc tank across town seems like a breeze!
…there are three cories nibbling algae off the same bit of PVC tube // tunnel … guys, it’s a 55 gallon tank, you’re an inch long, there’s plenty of algae!
Some Gal and Argenti:
MRAs: a lot less interesting, intelligent, sociable and generally appealing than fish.
Any fish.
Well, I guess that aVFM article answers the question of whether or not there’s anything that can happen to a woman that those scumbags think people* are justified in being upset about.
*Notice that I didn’t say “women”. Decent men all over the word are upset about this too.
I’m glad that someone who does math well has taken a look at the stats on the lead thing. It looked solid to me, but I was hoping for outside confirmation.
Yes, but if they’re eating that bit it must be the best bit! I don’t want that inferior stuff!
@Argenti
Well, my boyfriend has, well let’s just call it a moving phobia, and so between him and the cat, I’ve already got my hands full. We hope not to be in apartments for too much longer, though, so maybe “someday” will be someday soon.
“Yes, but if they’re eating that bit it must be the best bit! I don’t want that inferior stuff!”
That’s probably it, but the hair algae is terraforming the tank! My silk plants look real they’re so covered in algae!
Some gal — ah, ok then, didn’t realize that the fish would be the least of least moving issues.
Re: lead and violence — I’d love a meta analysis, just to seal it, but yeah, it looks solid (a hell of a lot more solid than the evidence for my DEATH RASH drug actually)
Yeah, that ranks as barely better than the placebo and maybe not even that, except placebos lack DEATH RASH risk…I am less than thrilled (perks of not-dating a grad student, you can get all the studies your psych doesn’t want to acknowledge because one said it was really useful!)
Cassandra – it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if vomitbuckets like Elam envy the Delhi rapists/murderers, or at least did until they were arrested. Seriously, it would not surprise me at all.
Re: fish
I had marbled mollies; they’re viviparous.
Which is why I won’t keep mollies! Eggs are one thing, live birth just seems way too complex (in the avoiding the fry being food sense)
Not like I meant to breed cories though!
I’m catching up…let me guess, AJ Carson = Pell? (I’m on comment three, and the bullshit tone of authority seems awfully familiar).
Ding ding ding, we have a winner! (Yep, it was a Pell Incident)