In not-quite spring, a young MRA’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and how women are all a bunch of moneygrubbing whores that get uglier and uglier as they get older.
Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, discussions of marriage are busting out all over, like the buds of new spring flowers or the skidmarks in an MRA’s underpants. The fellows are not too keen on this whole marriage thing, which is an obvious female trick to rob men of their money and sperm and tie them to rapidly depreciating assets (women) who are only going to get uglier as time goes by.
In one thread, a fellow named wrez shares these thoughts, to much acclaim (or at least a few dozen upvotes):
In another, a fellow named rathum2323 suggests that any women interested in marriage is clearly up to something nefarious.
All that said, I am pleased that Reddit MRAs are managing to convince their friends not to marry. Because if you’re someone who turns to MRAs for marriage advice, it’s probably best for all concerned that you never marry anyone or anything.
Nope! The Senate had already signed on to this–it was only the House holding out.
The Speaker broke the ‘Hastert rule’, which is not a real rule, and bam!
To explain: there’s a Republican majority in the House. (barely)
Even though a majority of the votes were for Democrats. (gerrymandering!!)
The Speaker can keep a bill from coming out to vote.
The Hastert rule says don’t allow anything to come to a vote that a majority of your party doesn’t support.
But it doesn’t need a majority of your party to pass: if twenty Republicans join all the Democrats, it passes. (87 voted in favor of VAWA–including most of the women Republicans elected)
Having passed in both, if Obama will sign it, it’s law. (and he’s going to sign it)
It’s a done deal, and it’s about time.
Manboobz has too many intelligent commenters to keep up with. It’s a shame for me so it is.
Up with which to keep up with.
And somewhere out there, a little grammar faerie dies
– of laughter!
@Historophilia
In addition to the other suggestions, try making yourself chicken soup with one or two cloves’ worth of garlic juice squeezed into it. Or even consider dicing the cloves and adding the pieces to the soup. Garlic has anti-microbial properties.
My mother used to ply me with unending cups of echinacea tea when I had a cold. When I could taste them, I knew it was time to stop drinking them. 😛 I prefer Celestial Seasonings’ Lemon Zinger tea with honey and Scotch for colds.
And garlic and soup both have sinus clearing properties, at least for me! Hope you’re feeling better soon, Historophilia!
I can see I’m going to have to do a bit of Googling on Congress, the Senate, etc … I was thinking of it like our House of Reps, the main body, and the Senate; or the House of Commons and the Lords. Sounds like that was topsy-turvy or just totally different!
Anyways, thanks for the info and congratulations again.
Owly must be imploding by now BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The MRM in a nutshell.
@Historophilia – Breathe steam. Not just in the shower. Boil a pot of water (and you must actually bring the water to a boil and use an actual pot or saucepan – a cup of tea will not produce good results), cover your head with a towel and breath in the steam from the water. Have tissues handy as it will make your nose run and possibly also make you cough but it will relieve pressure and congestion. Won’t cure you but it will make you feel better for a bit.
Historophilia, a friend of mine made me a light vegetable broth (literally just a stock cube and water) with garlic, ginger, chilli, coriander and some small diced veggies simmered in it. it cleared my head plus it had immune system boosting ingredients.
On the unwed mothers thing, it’s just such an insult to MRAs because it means they are not owned by a man.
and congratulations on VAWA.
Vick’s Vaporub in steam is another variation on that. I’ve had middling success with it but it worked a treat when Magnus had cat flu! 😉
Glad you’re getting to the doctor. I’m betting lots of bed rest and chicken soup will be the suggestion!
kitteh — the simplest flowchart of our system — http://www.rightsofthepeople.com/education/government_for_kids/images/icons/branches.jpg
Thanks, Argenti! That’s so different from ours. I’ll have to read up what the differences are between the houses.
Kittehs’, you might like this too:
I’ll watch it at home, cloudiah! (No sound here at work.) 🙂
@The Kittehs’
It is worth the wait. (I will have the song stuck in my head for days, though. Thanks, cloudiah, and I mean that non-sarcastically.)
Argenti: That diagram is totally wrong. The Supreme Court is like half women and there are two brown people on it!
(PS Kitteh: I hope you don’t feel like you have to learn American politics on our account!)
LOL! Don’t worry, katz. I mean, my best friends are ‘Murricans so it makes sense to know a bit of what’s going on.
Anyway we’re the 51st state in all but name. 😛
*reads the bit on “kino”.*
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Y’know, before I started listening to feminists, I always worried that I might come across as creepy.
After I started listening to feminists, I realized that holy fuck was I light years away from being anything close to what women put up with on a regular basis.
Our Senate and House of Representatives are basically like your House of Lords and Commons, respectively: The Senate is the smaller, stodgier one and the House is the larger one with shorter terms that’s theoretically less stodgy. Both together are Congress (so a bill that has passed Congress has passed both the House and the Senate).
A Congressman/woman could theoretically refer to someone from either house, but Senators don’t like being called that, so in practice it refers to a Representative.
Just looking up Australian politics. I wish we had preferential voting 🙁
My wife and I married after living together fifteen years because we wanted her on my medical insurance policy and marriage was a requirement. Not very romantic, but we already loved each other so it was not like the act of marriage changed anything between us.
We also celebrate our anniversary of the first date instead of the marriage date. The former was halloween (1978…I’ll let you do the math) and who would want to give that date up? LOL
@joanimal
Awesome to both!! 🙂
I wish there was a preferential ballot in Canada too. I hate strategic voting. Cast a ballot for the mainstream right-wing party in my last provincial election out of fear of the holy-heck-what-even-is-this far right wing party, and I’m still sort of grossed out by the experience.
I’ve just realised where the confusion was (my head, lol) – I was thinking of Congress as meaning one of the houses, not the overall name. Congress = Parliament, more or less, and we both have the House of Reps as the lower chamber and the Senate as the upper chamber, yes? That’s why I was asking at first if the Senate would try to block VAWA; I was thinking of Congress as being the lower house.