Mocking misogyny: It’s not just for the present day. Here, from 1915, a pointed parody of misogynistic anti-Suffrage arguments by writer/poet Alice Duer Miller. (Note to extremely literal-minded MRAs: She was not actually advocating that men have the vote taken away from them. Nor are we.)
You can find many more examples of Miller’s sharp wit in her 1915 collection Are Women People? The whole thing is available online and in various ebook formats on Project Gutenberg.
Graphic via Roqayah Chamseddine (@iRevolt on Twitter).
While that ends up being the overall effect, in fact our only actual criterion is not being a total jackass. I wouldn’t want people to feel that they had to meet a certain intellectual level in order to participate.
katz: You are right, anyone who has decorum is welcome.
Being funny generally helps even more than being smart, but being a decent person is really the only bar you HAVE to reach.
I think it’s more accurate to say we ask that people admit when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
For example, just one, I don’t know anything about knitting. When the conversation goes to knitting, I clam up a little and listen. It’s only polite. I have areas where I know enough I’ll speak up, but, dammit, knowing when to listen is KEY.
Howard’s got it.
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What the fuck are you on about, you nasty little shit? Add Occam’s Razor to list of things you know fuckall about. But please, keep talking about condensation, you fool.
Seriously, take your butthurt elseweb, if they’ll have you.”
-hellkell
I understand this to mean “I’m not angry at all.”
That should read “attack”, not “attach”. Isn’t it a law of the universe that when you correct or mock someone’s spelling, you’ll make an error of your own? I guess I had that coming.
I understand this to mean “I’m not angry at all.”
No, you don’t. Which is the problem. Disdain isn’t anger. Treating someone with hostility, isn’t anger.
Mockery, isn’t anger.
I’ve seen people here be angry, you wouldn’t like them when their angry.
Seriously, Diogenes, what does it matter whether Hellkell is angry or not? And why are you fixated on her?
kiki
Someone on an internet forum insulted me!
Oh noez, this means I have to reassess myself as a person. Maybe I am arrogant. Maybe I am stupid. Maybe I am dirt; no, worse than dirt. I should wear sackcloth and whip myself as an atonement.
Because I’m too boring to be fixated on, apparently. *manly tear of sadness*
Maybe you should just go away and stop being overly dramatic.
Oh crap, now he’s going into NWO territory. Don’t do it, Diogenes! If you stare too long into the milk machine, THE MILK MACHINE STARES BACK!
But I like overly dramatic Diogenes! It’s hilarious!
I’ll fixate on you LBT. [stares at LBT for an awkward period of time without blinking]
Oh, it’s on now, cloudiah! I’ll fixate even HARDER on you!
*STAAAAAAAARE* O_O
It is one of those stupid public displays of dominance. Like ordering you to smile, or interrupting you when you are busy. Claiming that he made you angry is an assertion of dominance.
Y’all didn’t have one of those asshat uncles, did you? I did.
pecunium
I reread your post in the hulks voice. It was way funnier the second time.
People have tics. They operate pretty consistently. Most people fall into a few pretty narrow persona’s. Its not too hard to read people.
This place has more than its share of bitterness. It smells like a million failed diets, and thousands of childhood rejections.
And in other news:
I BROKE A NAIL.
It hurts so bad. Typing without using my pointer finger is hard.
Ouch.
It’s so sad, though. The harder he tries to be dominant the more pathetic everyone thinks he is.
@Diogenes The Cynic
Wow, someone is presuming to know a lot about a group of people they have never met.
Why so angry, DiogenestheClueless?
Melody, sorry about the nail. Ouch. [cloudiah types angrily and with great bitterness]
LBT you win the staring contest! Stop, you’re burning a hole in my BRAIN.
That is why he always makes me think of the Dunning-Kruger effect. He is definitely a troll, he just isn’t very good at it.
I see we’re still waiting for you to have an original thought
Don’t forget to say something about our cats!