I haven’t been paying much attention to the recent brouhaha over Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book. But I feel safe in saying that MRA lackwit Christian J.’s “Sheryl Sandberg, Your Usual “Modern” Crass, Arrogant, Sexist, Biased Female” may be the dumbest thing anyone has written, or ever will write, on the subject.
Mr J’s post on WMASAW – the blog that used to be called What Men Are Saying About Women – starts off with a puzzling description of Sandberg as an “arrogant Lindsay Lohan Look-a-like, [who] Promotes sexism, bias and hate.” (Um, what?) And it only gets worse from there:
It is amazing what these sexist and abusive, addled females get away with while they continually praise themselves and raise themselves as being the “Saviours” of the world with the “If Only Women ran the World” meme. Take Sandberg for example, the bastion of that left-wing mentality … .
Yes, that’s right. Mr. J is describing Sandberg as a “bastion” of left-wing thought. Mr. J and the English language are not good friends.
They make the claim that “Equality” is about the aim of making women level with men, erm! level suggests what? In every area possible, even if it means reducing standards and tests and lowering anything that women have problems with. …
Every time they make the same claim that (Lindsay Lohan Look-a-Like)Sandberg bloviates about here, like every other member of that same HATE movement, it was never about anything else but giving women a FREE ride to the top and don’t anyone every dare hold them back because there would be screaming and wailing and it would be introduce another excuse to cry that usual lie of “holding them back”, amazing.
In reality, it’s because job placement used to be based on merit and ability, even though that has been tossed out and replaced with quotas in favour of women. It has everything to do with sexism, v*gina and pro-female “Equal Opportunity” as Sandberg denies is the case. ….
What a sexist loathsome, despicable female.
Mr J. then quotes a couple of not-exactly earthshatteringly controversial comments of Sandberg’s:
“I think a world that was run where half our countries and half our companies were run by women, would be a better world.”
“I hope that . . . you have the ambition to run the world,” Sandberg told Barnard graduates, “because this world needs you to run it.”
As Mr. J figures it, Sandberg is promulgating female supremacy here, “saying that every females alive could out perform any male. Sickening, petty, self-congratulatory, back-slapping and wishful thinking or what !”
I choose “what.” (They speak English in What?)
Mr J, for his part, seems to believe that, in an inversion of the the man-hatred he attributes to feminists, every male alive could outperform any female:
As far as I can see so far, those countries that have women in charge, are not doing that crash hot at all. …
Yet this odious and tedious Sandberg has the temerity to state that the world would be a better place run by women. What a complete, compulsive liar that women really is, women these days have problems being genuine and real, let alone anything else. But it does demonstrate that standard egotistical side of these “New Women”, who have been granted the easy option and helped along the way, every way possible by compliant men. Do they get any thanks for it, forget that. They just get the knife in the back for their efforts and gloat, even after changing conditions, being sued, forced to comply to changes that women demand and then turn around and state “Look at me, I am so good” .
Was that last sentence even a sentence? If so, please diagram it for me. I dare ya!
What hypocrites they are. It is about time men stopped capitulating to these arrogant and narcissistic females, stopped giving them automatic promotions, a free ride and start giving them some competition and let’s see how well they go then.
It’s always funny when blithering idiots suggest that women’s brains are inferior to their own.
Writing style aside: Christian J is right, in his assertion that some people start out with more help and opportunities but it’s not women as a group. There are those who come from either an accumulation of wealth, status or other form of privilege. One must remember that the quotas for women only account for 50% of one gender meaning that if more that 50% of a certain discipline are female then it is not because of the quota. It is however because women, in anticipation of having a harder time finding employment, will take more schooling. Women are competing plenty hard. The quotas are now being applied to ensure there are enough men because women compete so hard.
Virgil, you need to fess up and declare yourself as a visitor from another dimension.
@Feminism is bullshit boy, you sure showed us!
Complains about lack of rebuttals. Has not rebutted or even responded to anyone else’s arguments.
Where did you bring up any observable facts?
And I’ve already asked you why anyone who disagrees with you is either a feminist or a white knight/neckbeard/mangina. Gonna rebut that, or?
You don’t understand how insults work, do you?
Virgil, I did rebutt the diareaha you tried painting the wall with.
Beloved is a male model? And thanks for the well wishing, I sure do enjoy being “ploughed” by him!
Please oh please don’t throw me in that briar patch. That would be just awful.
Anyone else here hoping that male model is Captain Jack Harkness?
Since we’re in Virgil’s fantasy universe already can we bring back Marcus Schenkenberg in his prime? If not I’d be happy to accept Takeshi Kaneshiro as a substitute.
(OK, technically he’s more of an actor, but he does model too.)
First, cutting off penises/penī/pick-your-plural is not funny (debating the plural kind of is).
Second, drunk posting advice — yes, be funny, but also? You need some water, or juice, or something. Prevent that drunk over, no me likes waking up still drunk and yet hungover.
Third, “fuck feminism”? You want to fuck a feminist? You’ll need to try harder than that. 2/10 would not fuck.
Virgil, 2/10, would not fuck.
“Anyone else here hoping that male model is Captain Jack Harkness?”
Yes, please. Best part is we all stand a chance with the captain! Including butterfly like alien posters, so Virgil too.
Oh, no! The horror! Not the male models!
Virgil, exactly where am I supposed to be getting those 10 weekly male models from? Because whoever is supposed to deliver them has been missing my house for a very long time.
This is so not up to the standard of the Lego curse.
Yes.
Well, now I am
This has to be one of the most memorable manboobz moments
@crmsnfrn
Sorry, that was my fault. Your deliveries were the last on the page and the page got a little damaged, so I did not see your address…though I did wonder why there were undelivered men in the truck at EOB. My boss says I have make this right, so do you want them all at once or spaced out?
Anyone remember those “Mighty Max” cartoons? Their Virgil was from Lemuria. And had a beak.
This Virgil is…er…
Yeah.
So, anyway, I understand they call Jeff Lebowski “The Dude” because he is tubby, disheveled, mocked and ostracised man.
Makes me kinda sad I’m heading out for the evening. And since the week is ending, apparently I need to find my 10 male models tonight, and get to plowing!
Bad_dog – I’m with you there! The other thing that irks me about all this stuff is that the emphasis on “leadership” suggests that everyone should be aiming to be a leader of whatever sort – so who’s going to be filling all the other roles in life? Who are they going to lead? Will it be all the wannabe leaders who didn’t make it, and are probably pissed off as a result? There’s no acknowledgement that 1) if everyone’s a leader, who’re they leading and 2) not everyone has the attributes to be a leader and 3) even if they have, they may not WANT to be a leader.
Worse, it also plays into what I see as a very USian thing (correct me if I’m wrong, USians!) of imagining everyone should be an entrepreneur or business owner or some such, and that if you’re a mere employee you’re hardly worth shit, you’re a failure, you should be punished for not being a Rugged Individual.
I’m reminded of something in a star chart (yeah, I know, silly!) I had done years ago, which described my attitude to work perfectly. It said something along the lines of my work life being ruled by Taurus, which meant I really just want to be left in my field to chew the cud and not be bothered. That’s the best image I’ve ever read of how I feel about work, and as far from Leadership or Assertiveness as you can get.
Wait, virgil is in this thread as well? I thought we had him contained in the “2/10 will not pet kitty” thread. Next time, the perimeter needs to be set up more quickly.
Gillian – I am LOVING your descriptions of your solar-powered heroic paper-fighting kitties!
Actually I’m a bit busy tomorrow, joanimal, can you just send all my models over this evening? Thanks!
(Check with them that they’re OK with that first, though, because I’m a feminist and we’re not rapey assholes.)
It is a USian thing. All citizens desire to own their own home. No, they don’t. All citizens desire to run their own business. No, they don’t. The galloping assumptions make it hard to get past the first sentence in some presentations. Particularly political presentations.
The home ownership bit is very Oz, too, but not the business thing.
I’m relieved to hear that Startrack Express weren’t the couriers for the male models. You’d never see them again. Their depots have black holes in them, pallet loads of stuff go in never to be seen again. It’d be like that Python sketch with the aged/dead milkmen locked in an upstairs room.