One effect of living within the ideological bubble of the Men’s Rights movement is what you might call ideological inflation: MRAs start off believing, for example, that women don’t face discrimination today, in the developed world — an idea that’s wrong enough to start with. But then, surrounded by other delusional MRAs who reinforce their every wrong notion, the denizens of the Men’s Rights bubble come to believe that women haven’t ever been discriminated against anywhere and at any time in the history of the world. (You may recall those evil cavewomen who sat around eating prehistoric bon bons while the men hunted the mammoth to feed them.)
And that leads to things like the following video, in which the FeMRA video maker who calls herself The Wooly Bumblebee declares war on a pair of “Misandric Pants” she bought for her daughter by accident.
Yep, that’s right, she’s furious because one fucking percent of the proceeds made from selling these pants goes to a charity fighting against the very real discrimination and oppression that girls face all over the globe. You know, like being denied educations because they’re girls. Like being forced into child marriages with adult men. Like being forced into prostitution as children. That sort of thing.
Apparently girls don’t suffer from being repeatedly raped as children. But boys are totally oppressed because a tiny portion of the profits from a pair of pants goes to a charity that talks about, and tries to do something about, the shit girls have to endure because they are girls.
*concentrates very hard on cute puppy piccy*
Did I tell you all (I think not?) that we haz two new puppies?
I was driving home from grocery store on Dec. 30, and there were two little dogs out in middle of nowheresville Texas standing right by road. I stopped car, hopped out, and with a small amount of coaxing, they jumped in the car.
We’ve called shelters, listed them as “found,” and searches internet sites for local lost/found dogs, to no avail.
They’re ours, we think. Looking at pics online, we think they’re mostly miniature rat terrier: each is about 10 pounds. Both female. One (Daisy) two years old, and vet thinks possibly has been spayed. The other (Sweetpea) is about 9 months and just coming off her first heat. They’ve had basic vacs and checkout, and are living isolated from the three cats and our indoor chocolate lab for now. Next week, they go in for heartworm tests and Sweetpea’s operation.
Then we start socializing/training them to be in with the cats (they’re incredible hunters, so we’re a bit worried about instinct to pounce and shake that breed info says they have, and which we’re seeing).
They’re well socialized–they weren’t even dirty and probably hadn’t been on own for long (probably dumped not long before), and even a bit spoiled.
So, um, PUPPIES!
PICTURES! There will need to be puppy pictures!
Pics or the puppies never happened. 😉
Congrats on your new additions!
“Though I am a bit confused as to why she thinks a school that has banned jeans will allow stretchpants that look exactly like jeans ….”
I had a classmate in middle school whose dad was very religious and strict and wouldn’t allow his daughters to wear bluejeans (don’t ask, I didn’t get it either). So she wore some kind of double-knit pants that looked just like fake denim.
Just like it.
PUPPY PICTURES PUPPY PICTURES PUPPY PICTURES
@LBT
My friends and I obtained a totally legal copy for dramatic reading/sporking purposes. We lasted until Chapter Twelve before we got uncomfortable about pisstaking the books. We just recapped and ranted up to the end of book one and then left it alone.
You have my sympathies and admiration.
@the kitten, I loved the tomato and herb soup! I could probably get a friend to send some over.
Greetings, JustACheeto! I’m also a recent addition; everyone’s been really nice : )
BigMomma, have you seen any for sale in Australia? It’s years since I have. There is a Baxter’s Australia company listed, but the link to it on Baxter’s UK homepage is broken, which makes me wonder if they went out of business.
If we ever meet up in Pasadena again, consider yourself invited.
Welcome, JustACheeto!
CWS & LBT: if you want a good 50 Shades pisstake, check out Jennifer Armintrout’s blog. Her chapter recaps are hilarious.
Why are Misandric pants Canadian? *sigh* (The tag being in French is a give away.)
So… does Pierre work at a clothing store?
Pierre: Hello, how may I help you?
Wooly: Yes, I would like to return these pants I bought for my daughter.
Pierre: OK, so do they not fit?
Wooly: No, they fit fine.
Pierre: Do they not look good on her?
Wooly: No, they look fine.
Pierre: Then what’s wrong with them?
Wooly: They’re too misandric. I need pants that hate men less.
Pierre: Hang on, let me call my manager. *on the phone* Yes, it’s about misandric pants. No, this is not that Slave guy complaining about being visually assaulted again.
RE: hellkell
I dunno, hellkell, I slammed through fifteen chapters and had to concede because it reached a creepy point that I COULD NOT MAKE IT FUNNY. I needed the equivalent of the Chicken Dance playing the entire time, and that’s hard to do in text.
Waaay off topic. If you are a USAian your siggy on this petition would be greatly appreciated. I worked on this back in the day, the first time around and criminy I cannot believe we are still fighting and protesting the same shit today.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/vigorously-support-womens-rights-fully-engaging-efforts-ratify-1972-equal-rights-amendment-era/16XQWXpS?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
LBT: she manages it, and makes no bones about what an abusive asshole Chedward is and comes at it from a pretty feminist position. If that makes sense. I had minor surgery today and the painkillers have kicked in.
lightcastle – are you Canadian? If so, be proud to claim the Pants of Misandry!
hellkell – hope you’re recovering okay after that surgery!
Vlue jeans were considered mens work clothes and so are verbotten for the womenfolk. Deut 22, yet another bit of scripture that men interpret to mean whatever they choose at the mo.
YOU HAZ ALL TEH INTERNETS
Oh, Maple syrup ideas. Tir a neige, of course. ( heat it up, lay it on snow and roll it into toffee). I have a killer maple syrup pie recipe I can give you. And pounding chômeur, which is basically just vanilla cake, layered with male syrup. As the cak bakes, the syrup trickles through, flavouring the whole thing.
Also, $30 for pants? Damn, those are cheap pants. My pants cost way more than that and they’re not even designer pants or anything. They’re just Levi’s.
Blue jeans is what I meant to type, but you already knew that. didntcha? There is no mention in the Bible of anything vlue. So that stuff would be fine if there were some vlue stuff.
I go to play Guild Wars for an hour and come back to oodles of information.
@Kitteh: pleased to hear your’e going well on your beading.
@Ithiliana: yes, please, photos. 🙂 I hear pecunium takes some good ones 😉
Re yarn, yes and in NZ we use “ply” which often is used for yarn that is woven into a single ply. So 8 ply = DK, and we say “8 ply” even if it doesn’t physically have that many strands.
Back on the OT, I should have realised this sooner, but how come Wooly Bumblebee uses a bee as a nym because queens are the ultimate spermjackers. All the females in a hive are sisters, and will sacrifice themselves for the hive and the queen, so bees are the ultimate feminists. So, weird nym.
@thebewilderness: What a coincidence. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vlue
Cthulu’s Intern: they’re not that cheap for what are basically leggings. On sale for $9.99 sounds about right.
Kitteh’s: it was just a cyst excision, but in a very odd, uncomfortable place. The procedure itself went well and quick–only 35 minutes–and I didn’t have to have general anesthesia.