So the high school freshman who calls himself Bostonian42 is thinking ahead to college. And he’s got questions. Well, actually just one question, which he’s asking people about every college he’s interested in: is this college full of sluts? Because if it is, he wants none of it.
Here he is, inquiring about Dartmouth:
He’s posted similar comments for eight other colleges.
Sounds like he may want to avoid whatever college it is that Amanda here is going to. (See here for more from this inadvertantly hilarious comic book.)
(Thanks to @MaraWritesStuff on Twitter for alerting the world to Boston42’s noble quest.)
(Oh, and I guess I’m back to posting again, though my posts may be a little light for awhile.)
@Cthulhu’s Intern
I really don’t think several is the word he wanted to use. It implies that women can pass out of promiscuity by having sex with more men. *giggle*
LOL I love your reasoning there, Some Gal!
If he really is a kid, I wonder if he’s just shit-scared of being with a girl who realises he’s a virgin/not very experienced? Or is he so threatened by girls/women who know more about what they want? Or does he just subscribe to the whole double standard thing? Fair enough being nervous, but don’t I wish boys and men who think this way would get their heads out of their arses and stop dumping their insecurities and hangups on the other half of humanity.
This reminds me a bit of Mona Lisa Smile, set in the 50s, where they showed how it was expected that the women would just go to college until they found a husband, and where sleeping with more than 1 guy was considered promiscuous.
Fuck that is all I can say.
@The Kittehs’
It could be all of them: scared, threatened, and double standard. Being scared or at least nervous is normal, I think, and normally the double standard coincides with at least one other strange belief about women/gender roles.
Yes, it’s a nasty sort of brew, isn’t it?
Warning, discussion of FGM (more or less) ahead
Restrain women so they can’t mastrubate? Yeah um…clitoridectomy.
And this? This is part of why I want to scream when MRAs compare male circumcision with female “circumcision” because clitoridectomy would be equivilant to removal of the entire glans (aka “the head of the penis”)
Oh and top results for clitoridectomy? Hugo. Fucking. Schwyzer.
@Argenti
Yeah. He didn’t (and wouldn’t) have gone to that for reasons that are a bit specific to the school (and so a bit too identifying of me for my tastes). He did bring up cutting off hands, but none of us found that to necessarily stop masturbation. (After that I just vaguely recall something about prosthetics and our refusing to concede that you could invent a prosethetic that would be functional for the work he planned on having women do and not also for masturbation.)
Holy fuck he actually managed to make Victorian sexual repression seem sort of mild. Not that orgasm isn’t important but that hands, you need those, well, currently *types some more* Hands!
Sure prosthetics exist but since, that is disgusting levels of dehumanizing women, to the point of seeing them purely as objects to fill your desires even if that means chopping off their hands…maybe what bothers me here is that Victorians weren’t doing it for their own sexual pleasure?
*shudders, repeatedly*
@Argenti
I still have the most problems with the raising women from infancy to believe that they will die without fellating men. Cutting off hands is bad (really bad!), but the mindfuckery is just beyond the pale. (For me.)
This is true, the hands just…arg…make it go from “teenagers are idiots” to “holy fuck how can you even think that up, forget think it good!”
Idk, the mind fuckery seems like they just put too much twisted thought into how to get blown. Add the hands and it goes from “dude, think about what you just said” to “holy shit you’re serious?!”
Idiocy versus potential sociopath? Maybe I’m just being too forgiving of teenage stupidity / too quick to assign stupidity from teenagers to your standard “yeah, teenagers are dumb”
@Argenti
I can maybe help? He was 22 at least.
Oh, fuck no. By then you oughta know that you matter how horny you are, you don’t get to control people to solve that. Yeah, that’s just one big ball of creepy, culminating in sitting on my hands to protect them.
@Argenti
As far as I could see, he had no good qualities. Except for dating my friend.
It sounds to me like he was trotting out real, completely sadistic sexual fantasies.
@SomeGal:
“I picked a hell of a day to stop sniffing glue!”
….yikes! Seconding Kittehs’ Unpaid Help–that guy sounds terrifying.
@Marie
Yeah, it was a good place for me at the time in a lot of ways – in that it was a medium sized liberal arts college which was extremely important to me since I’d found out the hard way that I couldn’t really “do” overly large or overly small schools very well (big schools made me feel too invisible, small schools made me feel too visible), it was a place that was super supportive of me having two majors (which was also really important to me since I had no clue what the hell I wanted to do, just knew what I couldn’t live without). Just, because of the uber religious affiliation and dry town-ness, it also happened to attract a LOT of conservative minded people, both in the student body and the administration. It’s not uncommon for a lot of colleges to trot the “just don’t get raped, ladies!” bullshit to begin with and/or give those “self defense” classes that tell women to vomit or piss themselves in the hopes of deterring a rapist. It’s ridiculous actually how much that still is very much a thing.
I honestly don’t think I really got annoyed by my orientation story, even after graduating and becoming a feminist, until I started working for another university with people who do orientation stuff and DON’T engage in bullshit rape culture narratives and DO promote stuff like enthusiastic consent. I didn’t really get annoyed with my alma matter for doing it so wrong until I started working somewhere else and saw what “doing it right” looks like.
Also, just because this kid’s a freshman doesn’t mean he’s not already looking at colleges. There are a lot of colleges that do summer programs for highschoolers and college prep courses are starting earlier and earlier so it’s plausible that he’s actually someone looking at colleges. Sure, ten years ago I was pretty whatever about the whole thing (which, honestly looking back surprises me, for someone who couldn’t wait to escape to college, I was pretty blasé about the whole application process) but not everyone is. Plus, I mean, he’s looking for a slut-free college and that’s going to take some time so it’s a good thing he’s starting early, ya know?/snark
Random tangent on college admissions – I worked in an admissions office once upon a time doing data entry stuff (matching up recommendation letters and essays with applications already sent in) and one essay proclaimed our university to be their “dream school”, yet had spelled the school name WAY wrong 😛
I never did plan on waiting for marriage, and guess what.
PROTIP: If you are dying to fuck, spending all your time with your nose buried in a book or otherwise keeping to yourself won’t help, and makes you obnoxious if you complain about how you’re not fucking.
(OTOH it didn’t help that all the social events in my high school involved excessive amounts of noise.)
@ some gal
That guy sounds ickier the more you say about him. (I don’t mind you talking about it, though I’m sorry you had to meet such an ass.) Hopefully one day he’ll get slapped by reality and realize what an ass he is. Unlikely, but still hope.
@ostara
well, I’m glad to hear most of the college worked for you 🙂
The Oglaf links on the other thread reminded me that The Slut Virus is highly relevant here! (NSFW)
Heh, I was actually thinking about the Oglaf storyline where the apprentice tries to buy a monster from the magic virgin town, where all the residents are scared to death of “The Slut”.
There’s always this one.
@leftwingfox: That storyline confused me. Okay, so this group of vampires? is preying on virgins by a de-virginity-fying potion? and then doing horrible things to them? and not just putting the bite on? I think?
Falconer; That’s pretty much what I got out of it too. They sent in a vampire virgin to kidnap people to bite/rob/screw/whatever. I assume because it’s an invisible city and victims of the “Felicia” potion vanish from it, that it’s a relatively safe crime.
Still, what it lacked in sense, it made up for in hilarity. Plus it eventually lead to the fruitviking, so it’s all good.
God forbid anyone of the male persuasion judging women on things that are clearly within their control!
Not actually here, but bumping the necromancer. (Back for realz in an hour)
Hey PurpleNurple: judge women as sluts all you want, but don’t be surprised when we point and laugh. Dipshit.