How would you define feminism in a sentence or two?
Wait, stop thinking, for Reddit’s ImissAOL has already provided a wonderfully concise and accurate definition:
I see modern feminism as the equivalent to letting your kids stay up all night eating ice cream.
He adds, helpfully:
Just because they feel they are getting their way doesn’t mean it is actually benefiting them.
Gosh, that’s not patronizing at all!
Sometimes doing this blog makes me hungry.
Why not just ask?
CWS came up with an immortal image of him sitting on a deckchair outside the White House, beach umbrella over his head, shouting at the President for being to blame for everything. 🙂
MRAs want ownership of their children. They don’t want responsibility for them, or their presence; they want them as tools to hurt and control the children’s mother. Their constant shrilling about paying maintenance is indicative enough of how little they care about children.
Oh so that’s where the deck hair thing comes from!
Yep!
Rule #1 – if you’re not familiar with an issue? Either shut up or ask for resources to learn more before you say a word.
If you actually were any good at academic argument, you’d know that already. Of course, that would interfere with your mansplaining to all the silly women on the internet about feminism and lesbians and why it’s so wrong of them not to smile and act nice to the MRM and try to find common ground with these men who want us enslaved or dead. That would totes cramp your style, I get it.
Oh and for the record, in case nobody else pointed this out to you, your “there was no consent law for underage lesbian sex that’s female privilege and misandry!” argument is utter bullshit when PEOPLE FUCKING GET KILLED FOR BEING GAY EVERY GOD DAMNED DAY. Including lesbians. Including teenaged kids who may not be doing anything against the law but who will suffer an epic shitstorm and life threatening danger if anyone finds out about them.
Jesus wept.
Here are some resources for Martyn:
http://mansplained.tumblr.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mansplain
Note this part, especially, lad: “Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining.”
http://fanniesroom.blogspot.com/2010/02/art-of-mansplaining.html
Shiraz – love this one from Urban Dictionary: “Despite claims of superior strength in avoiding over-emotional reactions, when a man encounters even one iota of criticism of men on the internet, he must then mansplain why women suck by comparison or must be radical feminists.”
Sounds like some of our classic trolls of yore.
It’s uncanny, isn’t it, Kitteh?
I disagree with the definition in that I don’t think mansplwining is the same from women as from men. There is so much research on the different ways male and female speech is perceived. And I think that it is a false equivalency.
(But then I also disagree that women can be Nice Guys (TM). I think the power differential means that any sense of entitlement is different when coming from women.)
*mansplaining
Today is one of those days when I wish I could toss my kindle in Amazon’s face. They really need to update the damn thing so it works better.
::makes note not to buy Kindle::
Yeah, I agree about mansplaining and NiceGuy(TM) not really being applicable to women. They’re both about the man’s sense of entitlement.
Shiraz – totally! 😀
@The Kittehs’
Part of the reason I have trouble with it is because I use it for over 6 hours straight most days because I am stuck in bed so much. If you use it like a normal person, it probably wouldn’t do the crazy things it does when it gets tired and cranky. 🙂
I love it for everything but the browser and I could install a different one, technically.
Wearing the poor thing out! 😀
I haven’t even started investigating what sort of e-reader thingy to get. All my research so far is asking “what kinds do manboozers use?”
My sister loves her kindle (she has the cheapest one available, with ads) and we have one of those that we’ve barely used. The kindle fire has made an amazing difference in my life, personally. I have a case with a stand so I can rest it on my lap and spare my hands the weight and it is a great size for moving my as little as possible, but big enough that everything is easy to see. We got my mom the fire last year and she lives it too.
If you like games (even like Sudoku and logic puzzles), the fire is fantastic for that. I love doing those picture puzzles and also playing more traditional gamey-games. Obviously, few people will get as much out of it as the mostly-bedridden person, but after two years, I still love the thing. (When it behaves.)
Kitteh — iPad here, and I’ve gotten so fond of auto-correct that typing on a real keyboard is weird (and I have a mac!). Not really an e-reader, and more expensive, but I’m thrilled with it. Do splurge for the extra gigs though, 16g fills up fast when you’ve got an 8g~ music collection and issues with not having things available on all your devices. Mine’s a mini, not sure what pecunium’s is, or if he uses it nearly as much as I do, but I know he’s also got one.
Short version — I’ve been nearly exclusively on my iPad since Christmas, and other than the occasional auto-correct fail, I love it (and honestly, I can’t spell, auto-correct saves me more than it screws me)
I’m only looking at it as a replacement for paperbacks. Come the time Mum and I have to move to a smaller place, we’ll have to offload most of what we have.
I have a Nook first generation because all I wanted it for is reading and I did not want the lit screen.
My grandson loves the Kindle Fire. Says the battery lasts and lasts.
Cousin adorables the Ipad but does not use it for reading.
Argenti – I don’t really fancy Mac stuff. I’m much more at home with Windows, Mac things are much more expensive, and I can’t abide Steve Jobs … besides, I only want it for books. I so seldom listen to music at all now that I haven’t felt the urge to upgrade from a Discman.
I’m ambivalent on using the iPad for reading. On the one hand, it does work, and well. On the other, I like the smell of old books (this is my one complaint with EA’s book actually, the gorgeous full color pages will never turn yellow and smell like old books)
Martyn, dude, brevity is your friend. When you bang on at great length like this it means that people find you tedious in addition to your other flaws. BTW, your clarification doesn’t make you sound any less creepy, just so you know.
Also, this?
Either your teachers should have “educated to” you a great deal more diligently or you really weren’t paying attention during English lessons. Your grammar makes Shakespeare, Milton, and the baby Jesus cry.
Lol, discman, my lasted nearly a decade, but I kept soldering it back together. And hey, ymmv on mac, my only comment on that is that Steve Jobs isn’t even alive, forget about in charge, and that’s me being pedantic about facts, not commentary on mac v. windows.
…in case of zombie apocalypse I’m actually decent at electronic repair, ranging from simple soldering to replacing laptop parts…not sure that’d help any, but hey, maybe I can fix radios too?
“my only comment on that is that Steve Jobs isn’t even alive”
Ha!
😉
Still, a thirty percent profit margin on Apple products while using sweat shops to build them is inexcusable.
I put in a vote for the Google Nexus tablets. I bought a Nexus 7 right when they came out and I love it. It’s the same size and weight as the Kindle or Nook but since it’s built for internet rather than being just an e-book reader it’s got both a good browser in Chrome and the ability to install others, since it runs on the Android OS. Which is also convenient as there’s tons of apps for Android stuff. Decent battery life, the speakers are crap but it’s a tablet and not built for playing sound that way, my only complaint is the power cord is really short.