Happy Easter, or what remains of it, for those who celebrate it! (And happy Deep Discounts on Peeps Day to all who celebrate that tomorrow.)
There’s an interesting, er, theological discussion about the meaning of Easter over on The Spearhead. In a short post, WF Price argues that the uppity ladies of today could learn a thing or two from Mary Magdalene:
One of my favorite subtexts of the Easter story is the devotion of Mary Magdalene, who kept a vigil at her Lord’s tomb, and thereby became the first witness to the Resurrection.
I don’t see it as a specifically Christian message, but rather a universal one: the woman, regardless of her background or past, can attain holiness through selfless love and devotion. I hope some day that our own errant women can follow Mary Magdalene’s example.
A nonbeliever with the clever handle fakeemail isn’t convinced:
Once a whore always a whore.
I have no interest for a whore who “saw the light” aka a 30 year old cock-carouseler who is out of options. I want the young woman who was smart enough to never be a whore in the first place.
Evidently MRAs never take a holiday from being dicks.
You got the place, you got the place! Squeeee and happy dance!
Yay new house!
Yay moving! Wait… boo the moving process but yay the moving result!
Forgot to say how pretty your avatar is, Bagelsan – what is it, platelets or something?
Zomg! The only thing worse than packing will be unpacking two apartments worth of stuff.
And I’m one of those compulsively early packers, so my apartment is going to be furnished in early warehouse style for the next month.
YAY FOR PILLOWINHELL! And look at all the new gravatars — mostly kitties, but I hope Bagelsan will tell us what hers is. 😀
Mine’s an eosinophil. They’re immune cells mainly responsible for killing off parasitic worms in the body. It seemed appropriate. ^^
Extremely appropriate! 😀 😀
The bagel-like things around the eos are red blood cells, I believe.
Congrats! And good luck in the moving all of your stuff from house to house part. 😉
Maybe we should replace the border of this blog with eosinophils. 🙂
I like that idea. Plus, pretty! That might scare
parasitic wormstrolls off all by itself.Bagelsan — look like red blood cells to me, but other than an obsession with all things medical I have no experience in these matters.
G’night Falconer!
It would be so much pink! We could alternate the eosinophils with kitten GIFs and really freak the trolls out.
Yaaaaaay moving into a house! Houses are awesome!
This thread is absolutely sickening. Watch them dismiss the death and rape of women in wartime because those women were just raped repeatedly, big woop, at least they didn’t die! See them blame WW2 on women and once again never mention Admiral Charles Fitzgerald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather) the MAN who started the damn white feather movement. Watch them pretend that batch of women have more to blame for the deaths of soldiers rather than, I dunno… the enemy soldiers that actually shot and killed them!
The hypocrisy and sheer denial of history is infuriating. From the so called objective MRM. I really hope these hateful fucks are being watched by the FBI.
http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1bfbny/male_privilege_xpost_from_rhistoryporn/
Also Hi Viscaria!! (and everyone else!) 😀
Yeah I haven’t been around too much, been busy with life while trying not to pay attention to MRA crud online, but sometimes I still get suckered in…it’s like a terrible addiction. This is still the best place to expose their bullshit, I just wish more people would stand up to them. There are so many fallacies in their arguments, so much hypocrisy and denial of historical oppression. I cant blame feminists for not wanting to bother though , afterall I have made an effort to stay out of it all because frankly, gender issues have really started to bring me down. Like I have never felt bad about being a woman until I discovered the manosphere, and when I get really down I feel like I’m damaged for being female and all this internalized misogyny comes out. I’m sure that makes them very happy but in the long run if your movement serves to beat down half the population, it ain’t gonna work. You’d think they’d take that lesson from really radical feminists, the ones who actually DO hate men, they aren’t exactly taken seriously by the majority.
Other than that, I’ve been well. I hope everyone has been well here too!
Hi again, Quackers!
Brrr, I’d never manage looking at actual MRM sites. I wouldn’t feel like I was damaged or worthless, but I would start feeling extremely hostile to men, even knowing these turds aren’t exactly representative. It was bad enough reading HuffPo with all the misogyny there; it’s like an unlabelled MRA playground, swarming with NiceGuys(TM) and the rest. That’s why I’m glad I found Manboobz. It is, despite the trolls, a safe place to call out their bullshit – safe because of the regulars, and because Dave will ban the most egregious trolls. Truth be told I tend to skim the posts these days and get into the comments, ’cause the conversation here is So. Damn. Good, whether it’s Whack-a-Troll or food or movies or kitties or puppies or otters or birds or …
Speaking of which, I hope TomBcat aka the Fucking Godlike Egyptian Tomb Cat sees this. I think Maddie’s doing her best Bastet-on-a-barge impersonation here.
lol, I’m a fan of Dr Who on Facebook and they almost had me with this….
http://i.imgur.com/r1P8GXZ.jpg
Bastards! 😀 I wonder how many people they caught with that.
How was your Easter, BigMomma?
damp, Kitteh’s, for the most part and scuppered our plans for a sausage sizzle on the beach with friends. The fridge is, however, full of chocolate and I feel almost diabetic just opening the fridge door. We had a big scare when Kitty Lola went missing for 12hours after she followed Mr BM and the kids to the park. Daughter 2 (3yrs old) was quite sanguine and said she reckoned the Easter Bunny would bring Lola home. Daughter 1 (10yrs) was distraught. Mr BM and I were putting on a brave face. We wandered round looking for her and shaking the food tin to no avail. With heavy hearts, we went to bed.
Of course, in the way of cats, she woke us up at 4am wailing at the front door to be fed.
I haz a kitteh!
Oh wait no I don’t 🙁 why hasn’t it worked?
Ok now it has worked!
Oh, cool!