So @catches_stars on Twitter is pretty hilarious. She’s also got an OkCupid account, and regularly posts snippets of her conversations with some of the more problematic dudes who contact her, some on her main Twitter account and some on @okcupid_TXT. With her permission, and because I’m too lazy to actually write a post today, I’m passing along a few of my favorites.
This overeager fellow has a rather sudden change of heart when his stated plan runs into an obstacle, that obstacle being that @catches_stars finds him completely repulsive.
This guy is either totally high or trying some weird and misguided PUA wizardry on her. (It does not succeed.)
This foot-obsessed fellow spammed her with the same message from several different accounts.
This guy, who seems to be shirtless in his profile pic, gets what I assume is, to him, a very disappointing answer.
As does this fellow.
Romance is hard.
“Who the fuck thinks that eugenics could ever sound good except someone who is really racist and/or ableist?”
Some feminists have argued in favor of eugenic measures. Example :
“WIE: Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article “The Future—If There Is One—Is Female” writes: “At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.” What do you think about this statement?
MD: I think it’s not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore.”
http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j16/daly.asp?page=3
The eugenics stuff is the practical application of the Protestant idea that salvation is not offered to all humans, that some are elected and others aren’t, that some are born good and others are born bad. Since the modern world is still full of the old Protestant ideas gone mad, each person who calls for eugenic measures against a group of people because their genetics features make them inherently bad bring up to date this idea.
That’s with this idea in mind that pilgrims pretended to be the elected ones to Whom God gave a promised land in America to build the New Israel, the Kingdom of God free of corruption and depravities.
That’s sad that the few good things of catholicism (importance of the free-will, all humans can attain salvation,…) are the ones which will not survive to its death.
I can’t fucking deal with the idiocy tonight, I’m all out of spoons about three times over at this point, but does anyone know which thread I put the divorce statistics in? I want to add that to my collection of MRM related math but I lost the comment (iPad history = teh suck)
Whiskey anyone? Cuz I need some and can share.
Apparently all social justice issues can best be solved by economic solutions to fund lobbying and grassroots organizing (says the same middle class cis straight white dude as the last time my head exploded)
@Argenti
Sorry, no idea about the divorce stats. I have ginger wine, we could have Whisky Mac?
I have to work relatively early tomorrow so no booze here, only tea and mockery of Martyn’s stupidity.
Works for me! Never had ginger wine, but it sounds delicious.
@Argenti
Strongish warming ginger taste, a bit like a fuller and burnier ginger beer on first impression. It’s actually a ginger-infused raisin wine, and the raisins come out a bit as you get used to it. Good stuff, but probably more a winter drink.
@CassandraSays
Aww, I thought entertainment journos got to wake up whenever they wanted and swan around doing glamourous things.
I’ll drink almost anything with ginger in it, but ginger infused soju is the best boozy use of ginger imo.
lowquacks — that works well, it’s winter up here 🙂
Hell, I’ve still got a foot of snow!
Cassandra — too bad, Martyn’s stupidity seems to need a balanced booze approach. Then again, the level of privilege it takes to say that economic solutions would solve all social justice issues because quality of living is most important after I bring up Native American / First Nation genocide… And bathroom panic? Apparently that too is a “throw more money at it” problem…
Btw, this is why I use non-cis unless explicitly trans* — because I’m okay enough with my bio-gender to deal with my anatomy being obviously gendered and just use the bathroom my biological dangly bits align with…too much cis privilege to be comfortable saying I’m trans* — feels way too appropriative. On the other hand, fuck you biology.
And now that the whiskey is setting in, I’m going to bed. Thank you for letting me vent!
I’m entering this to say that Martyn is a nob.
He reminds me of every bright, politically-minded, well educated, white, middle-class, teenage boy I’ve ever met.
They tend to be the ones saying in a very knowledgable tone “Oh I think Feminism is fine but in this day and age is it still really needed any more?”
Cue me emerging from depths with a great roar of righteous anger.
Oh yes you’re very bright, but you know noooothing! Theories can tell you jack shit about how the real world works.
Also, I am feeling somewhat better today but still not very well. I’ve been to the doctor but it’s a viral infection so there’s nothing they can give me and I’ll just have to wait till it goes away on its own.
Historophilia can roar at him while I pat him condescendingly on the head and say “that’s nice, dear”.
@Argenti
Good night and enjoy your snow!
@Historophilia
🙁
@ lowquacks
Aw. My nephew is still a teenager and he’s pretty cool.
(Not white, though.)
Damn, I missed MarchHare’s meltdown. Impressive ability to stick to his flounce, though. Rare amongst manboobz trolls.
Eh, I’m sure he’ll be back tomorrow.
@Argenti I’m not much of a whiskey fan. I’m more of a gin or vodka drinker.
Have you guys seen the whoneedsfeminism tumblr? It is great. I follow it because it has tons of good insights into the value of feminism from a lot of different perspectives.
Bedtime for me too!
Awwww Lowquacks, don’t take it to heart, you are a much rarer breed.
I’ve generally got a bit sick of teenage boys over the last week or so, I don’t know why, but they always seem to expect me to run their lives for them, do their share of Uni work for them and act as an emotional support, oh and be at their beck and call at all hours.
I am not your bloody mother!
Sorry, rant over.
http://youtu.be/jSFLZ-MzIhM
I am experiencing many emotions this morning.
(Good ones I mean)
Forgive my triple posting, I’m all over the place. I meant to address this @Brz:
Congratulations, you have discovered that some feminists are/have been racist and ableist. The rest of us were already there, thanks.
Okay I think Martyn has left so I’m a bit late to this party but I just have to get this out: For fuck’s sake stop calling it “game theory”. That’s already a thing and with far more validity than PUA bullshit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
Every time he talks about game theory I want to tell him to go read a book that’s not about getting laid.
(Which would also keep him too busy to pester us – it’s a win/win situation.)
Brz did not sound French at all in his attempted gotcha.
My contribution to the Muppets discussion: Weezer’s cover of Rainbow Connection (can’t find an embeddable link, sorry)
And if you really want to have a lot of Henson feels this morning:
http://youtu.be/t9kT1xIpZ4E
Argenti, a quick google search turns up this. Is that the one? Or a different divorce statistics rundown?