The twitter hashtag wars continue! Apparently still pissed off that feminists pooped on their #INeedMasculismBecause tag the other day, the dudes of the manosphere launched a little counterattack aimed at #TellAFeministThankYou, a hashtag originally started by Melissa McEwan of Shakesville to give an opportunity to feminists to thank other feminists for, you know, being awesome and stuff.
On Chateau Heartiste, the Heartiste formerly known as Roissy charged up the troops for the campaign.
[T]he #TellAFeministThankYou Twitter feed has morphed into a shooting gallery for the entertainment of trolls and assorted sadists, providing a laugh a second. Feminists on that feed have been reduced to impotently bleating “wait for them to get it out of their systems.”
Go for the fun, stay for the cruelty. And keep an eye out for malevolent forces committing drive-bys of spectacular carnage. The kind of carnage that can leave a feminist with barely enough strength to mewl for the sympathies and circle-wagoning of fellow travelers.
There was just one problem: The PUAs and MRAs and other assorted Red Pill tweeters forgot to have a sense of humor.
Heartiste tried his best to generate some hilarity with a few tweets of his own.
Such magnificent wit!
Evidently feeling he needed to kick it up a notch, he decided to add some sprinkles of racism:
See, cuz only guys with names like “Juan” and “Anfernee” (hint, hint, hint) harass women on the street!
Here are some contributions from some other Red Pill wits, which evidently were highly amusing to the dudes in the RedPill Subreddit:
And a couple of others I found on my own:
There were even a few directed at little old me, like this one from our friend Chuck at Gucci Little Piggy:
You’re welcome!
Flawless victory, guys!
Oh, and here are some more kitties, since they seem to annoy manosphere dudes so much.
Sorry, on ibuprofen plus codeine now, so my grammatical structure is shot.
Thanks for the tips, everyone!
Lots of Kindles etc on the trains here too, now. At least, I see ’em when I stay awake long enough … I woke up just as the train left my stop this morning. 😀
I read most of King’s pre-Stand books (read them in order and holy fuck is that one long) — ‘Salem’s Lot is a lot more terrifying if you’re reading it at ~15 in a strange house with the window open so you don’t boil and, oh yeah, there isn’t even a screen on the window.
Probably should’ve been more worried about opossums and the like getting in, but I jumped at Every. Single. Noise.
Firestarter has some excellent moments — rkcybqvat puvpxra nalbar?
Pet Cemetery *shudders*
As for the Shining, yeah, the book is better, but there’s a newer, much longer, movie version that’s much truer to the book (for one…vg raqf cbbyfvqr jvgu Unyybena orng hc ohg nyvir)
/King geek moment (my mother has All His Books, so I can’t help it)
Ibuprofen and codeine – that’s nasty. 🙁
How’s Asthma Kitty doing, btw? I meant to ask yesterday.
@Kittehs’
Get the Kindle. So far the best e-readers on the market (unless you can afford an iPad) are the Kindle and the Nook. But Amazon has more books for better prices than Barnes & Noble. I was recently given a gift card to B&N and had a difficult time finding stuff to buy. The B&N website is really crappy to search and to browse, as well.
I have the first version of the Kindle Fire. My mother has a Kindle Touch. If you’re okay with long hours staring at a backlit screen, get the Fire. If not, the Paperwhite has an excellent reputation. I find my mother’s Touch to be a bit temperamental – the wifi tends to turn itself on and the touch response can be a little wonky. Ours are both a little over a year old, though, so I expect the newer versions are better.
I’ve also had a lot of success putting PDF documents on my Kindle, and there’s a free program called Calibre that you can use to convert epub type e-books to a Kindle format. Gutenberg also offers Kindle format for their public domain e-books.
One of my co-workers has a Nook. I checked it out and wasn’t impressed.
I feel you on the book downsizing. I did a big overhaul of my books last summer and took bags and bags of books to Half-Price Books. It was very traumatic. And then I spent the money I got from selling my old books on new books. I was very ashamed (NOT) of myself.
DAMMIT, I put a Slenderman picture on my desktop background and I keep thinking I see it moving. I need to put a different picture up…a cute kitten, maybe.
I have the Kindle app for my iPad and it’s fine, if a little heavy for reading for long periods.
In the US at least, there’s an e-book reader that purchases books from a network of independent booksellers. Oh and there’s an app called IndieBound for iOS and Android.
Back to the books, I honor my Scandihoovian roots by reading Henning Menkel, Kurt Wallander, and Jo Nesbo.
I finally got my books out boxen (for the first time in more than a decade). I don’t have enough shelf space for them. I need to cull. So It’s the entire wall of a thirty foot hallway, another five feet on another wall,and a couple of shelves upstairs.
We have three walls of our lounge room taken up with 6′ high bookshelves – all full – plus paperbacks shoved into boxes in the back room and a small bookshelf in Mum’s room. And we culled enormously when we moved into this house.
Oh and read I Am Legend. I’ll refrain from ranting about how terrible the movie is, but it is Not That Book. The book is excellent in a less than sterotypical “we saw the enemy and it is us” sense. The movie changes the plot to much it’s a travesty that they even used the same title.
…that was ranting, and I am sorry
On nonfiction I have enjoyed: pretty much everything by Margaret Atwood, but especially The Blind Assassin. Other books I have liked a lot (and re-read) include Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Cure for Death by Lightning, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (but not the sequel Lila? which was crap), The Dancing Wu Li Masters and the somewhat related Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet.
More clearly non-fiction books I have enjoyed are the two history books by Bryson (of nearly everything and the rooms-in-the-house one), Guns Germs and Steel and the sequel Collapse by Jared Diamond. I also quite like Steven Pinker, and I have a number of generalist science and risk books, by various authors and I quite like Nassim Nicholas Taleb because I get somewhat tired of explaining how statistics and expert elicitation methods are by definition not good at predicting black swan events.
But most of my bookcase is psychology, statistics, and operations research….
@Ellex
Slenderkitten?
I have the nook 1st edition ereader because Amazon takes back your books and I find that behavior outrageous, and because I don’t care about surfing the web on it. My grandson has the Kindle Fire and say the battery life is teh awesome.
I Am Legend is great, and that’s real.
I cried when the dog turned in I Am Legend, the movie. I don’t think I can read the book. I read all three Pullman novels (The Golden Compass was based on the first), but the deaths of the animals upset me enormously so that was a bit of a push. The Song of Fire and Ice (?not sure if that is the right name for the “Game of Thrones” collection I am reading) is also triggery for animal violence.
The drugs have knocked most of the edge off the pain, so I’m not gritting my teeth now, some days I wish menopause would just hit early. Kitty is better, but we need to get some ventolin because he’s woken me up twice at 12.30am with asthma attacks. He’s taking the steroid inhaler well, but spoke to the vet today and she said it won’t help (it also won’t harm) an acute attack, so we need the bronchodilator. He’s on human Flixotide for the steroid, and the Ventolin will also be human – nobody makes these drugs for cats. But they’re pretty safe. Literally, this is what we do with him once a day:
He gets cat treats afterwards, and is petted and told he’s a good boy while he’s got the thing around his nose and mouth. And after doing this for a couple of nights, it was only then that I noticed that I can see the green diaphragm in the main chamber move, to know he’s taking the medication in. 🙂
@thebedwilderness, what do you mean that Amazon takes back your books? I’ve not had one taken in. They do have a rental service, where the book expires after a period of time, is that what you mean? Or you can archive to the cloud so you free up reader space?
Just saw a TV ad for a new comedy show, missed the name. The comedian’s joke, chosen to showcase his humor (I’m paraphrasing):
Chris Brown is in legal trouble for beating up Frank Ocean. This could cause problems with Rihanna, who thought she was special.
Funny. 0_0
Aside from “The Stand” the only Stephen King novel I enjoy wholeheartedly is “The Eyes of the Dragon”, which features recurring boogeyman Flagg again.
Kiwi Girl: The only thing the book shares is the title.
re “takes back your books”. Amazon has, more than once, resolved questions of copyright by erasing the books from the kindles of people who had purchased them. The first time was with “1984”.
@Creative
Well, we do call our cat Rory “LOLopus” (LOLcat+octopus) and “Octorory” since he likes to jump on our other cat Tigwell and wrap all four legs around him. So maybe putting a Rory picture on my desktop will qualify as Slenderkitteh.
@Kiwi girl
Holy cow! Er, cat! I feel for your poor kitty. I’m on Advair with Ventolin as needed. The Advair is great, the Ventolin is just kinda so-so. Fortunately we finally got enough cold weather here in Pittsburgh to kill off all the stuff I’m allergic too, so I’ve been doing pretty good. But that’s amazing, I had no idea you could use an inhaler on a cat like that. Fortunately, my kitties are in excellent health.
I hope you and your kitty feel better soon.
Regarding Amazon taking back books, they also took back all the books from some customer they claimed violated their TOS. I can’t recall where I read about that, or I’d provide a link.
You can download a permanent copy of any book you buy from Amazon onto your computer. Hopefully they haven’t put any code in that would let them remote delete it from the hard drive (I have no idea if that’s even possible). I download all my books and keep a backup of them on an external hard drive, in any case.
Hope you feel better soon, Kiwi girl and Kiwi kitty!
@pecunium so there’s no awful stuff happening to animals in the book? If not, I’ll buy it. 🙂 That was the first I heard about copyright issues, and things being erased. I’ve only had good experiences with ebooks from Amazon: I wrote a review where I gave a book fewer stars because it was badly translated into the Kindle format, and got an email from Amazon saying to do a particular thing to my Kindle to get the book fixed because the publisher had resolved the issue (hooray for responsive publishers). I also accidentally bought a book on my Kindle and didn’t realise at the time that I could reverse the process using the device, so wasted more than the 15 minutes trying to find out how to do it via computer. I emailed their customer support to ask to get the book removed and a refund, and they did both which was nice of them because I was outside the “opps I didn’t mean to buy that” window.
Has this copyright problem occurred again recently? And has it anything to do with people changing the location of where they live in order to get access to more books (e.g. there are more Kindle books in the US market compared to the NZ market, because some of the copyrights don’t extend to those countries)? There has been the odd case where I know a book is available electronically in Australia and not in New Zealand – because I can see it for the Kindle using a work ISP address but not when I use my home one – and I email the publisher to push for the copyright to get extended to NZ.
@Ellex thanks for the kind wishes. He’s getting better – fewer asthma attacks now – but those two nights he had me panicking. His nose stayed pink though, the vet said that I can tell if he’s lacking oxygen because his nose will go white and his mouth will go blue. He hasn’t had one that bad /fingers crossed.
Catchng up on comments… but had to say @kitteh. I love black books. Every time I watch it I desperately want to own my own little book shop. Preferably one I can run as terribly as Bernard does and still stay in business, and that comes with friends like Manny and Fran.
Here’s The Guardian on the Kindle Wipe:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account
The really frustrating part was that they refused to tell her exactly what she had done that violated the TOS.
If you like the Campion books, the British tv version of it is pretty awesome. Doctor #5 from Doctor Who is Campion, and he does it rather well! For books, I cannot log enough Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series. Awesome female characters, awesome male characters, complex and believable plots, a thoroughly wonderful satire in the first book (she has hints in later books, but it becomes much more action adventure), and I adore it so much. My sugarrush book remains the Black Jewels Series by Anne Bishop; lots of icky things in the first three books, but her later ones are much more “rebuilding the kingdom” and I have really been enjoying it. Jane Lindskold’s books starting with Thirteen Orphans, which is modern fantasy based on Chinese mythology and with hints of others. I really adore it a lot and need to pick up more of the series.