Head-clearing Weekend

Lumme. I just read the most bizarre old thread – some bloke called Samuel going on and on about how men are all lustful beasts, saying men and women can’t be friends because of this, saying all the women on this site who disagreed were lying so as not to upset feminist men – and at the same time he was doing a massive all-caps dummy spit about how nasty feminist women were saying these things to him.

Oh and he thought not ejaculating gave celibate men’s eyes a wonderful glow of manly man energy.

It was … interesting.

LOL!

He was dead keen on conflating Buddhism and Hinduism and the whole lot, too.

The guy was equally frustrating and pitiable. It took a bit of work to read his stuff – he claimed to be a native English speaker and to have done college, but his posts just didn’t read that way at all. It wasn’t like dyslexia, either. He seemed to be terrified of being near any woman he found attractive in case he got an erection; it was like attraction = instant arousal = rape (and he didn’t seem to grasp that anything outside a Deep Spiritual Marriage could be happy sexytimes).

Oh, and he thought Slavey was an academic and deep thinker. 😛

Magpie had a great answer to his “marriage is a deep spiritual connection” line – marriage is when two people have a conversation while one of them’s on the toilet. Not that spiritual.

Wouldn’t Demon Lord of Sloth, Belphegor be Basement Cat’s true hidden cat name? Because I’d swear a lord of sloth is who my two worship. Or would if they could be arsed to get up and do anything.

Ah, but the adorablosity is just a cunning disguise …

Meh, to me it’s a hat with only a few associations – probably the first I saw was on Indiana Jones; I also love the hats Foyle and Milner wear in Foyle’s War, and the most important association is that Louis wears it. So in this as in all other areas, MRAs and associated losers can go stuff themselves …

Meanwhile, tonight’s picture effort has been not so much head-clearing as warming the cockles of the heart for memories of a winter day at Home last night. 🙂

Home from Arisia. It was an adventure. I started with a trip to the ER for some minor surgery (I managed to get a small piece of glass embedded in my foot. They had to cut it out. The anesthetic hurt more than the glass, or the aftermath. The tetanus shot was the most debilitating aspect of that).

Grabbed four hours of sleep, hopped the PATH to 33rd, walked to Penn Stn.

Took the Acela to Boston, worked my ass off (I was doing some logistical support, to the catering of three parts [staff, guests, attendees] of a four day convention/party for 3,000 people). I put in 32 hours of “billable” hours between 1300 Thus, and 0001 Monday.

Saw Cliff Pervocracy, Steve Barnes and some other friends. Ate not enough, slept not enough, drank not enough. Was reminded I need to get to Boston more often.

Did about 1/3rd the drive home. Slept.

Got coffee/croissant, and eggs to make breakfast when my partner rises from her well deserved rest.

Catching up on Manboobz now.

Katz: didn’t he return here as Stam not too long ago?

Wow… I read some of that Did you know that saying things is different from doing them?

And no one should ever protest something someone says?

I am sure he shares this view about the SCUM Manifesto.

Then I looked at the clip.

And he’s a deer in the headlights when he gets called out.

Robin… is “tastefully dressed”, Laci Green he has goggle-eyes and stammers. When Trisha puts him on the spot he changes his tune.

Then he waffles, and says she looks like a slut, ergo…

“Most men don’t care what women wear,” Even though he’s campaigning for men to “slut shame,” and he tries to push it off onto women.

“the slutwalk is a walk by a bunch of sluts… nothing but public whining sessions.”

And his moralising about how women who “wear meat in front of animals in the jungle” is what (apart from ridiculous, and not relevant to women in bars, unless men are slavering beasts, which he says they aren’t… even going so far as to say “most men would intervene to stop a rape,”. which makes me wonder what he thinks rape is, and why [if men are willing to intervene to stop it], women need to worry about how they look)

The last woman to join that segment…. “I’m not concerned with the term… but I know there are consequences that will follow you, as a woman.” Unh-hunh… and that is… People will shame you, and call you a slut. Her solution is to say, “do what they tell you to do, so they won’t degrade you later”.

That’s appeasment, and it’s not a good tactic to try and gain independence.

Starla: That being said, I think slut-shaming could be cut back quite a bit if girls were educated more about the Internet.

What does this mean?

If they just kept themselves in, “safe spaces” and understood they just have to accept some abuse if someone doesn’t like the way they look?

Because the only, “safe spaces” are going end up being a sort of purdah, and even there, there will be women like the last one to show up in the segment; reserving the right to tell people that they ought to be ashamed of not looking right.

Was he the one who was fixated on Kristin (?) because her icon was a tiny photo of her face?

@ Kittehs

There was this one troll who posted some really creepy comments about how he would be unable to be around one of our old regulars because you see, she was just so pretty. I know it sounds relatively harmless but actually it was really creepy.

Resist, Falconer, resist! I have a fairly high squick level with old threads here but this guy was bizarre.

Cassandra – no, that doesn’t sound harmless, it sounds totally creepy.