So here’s an interesting chart. Guess what it represents?
A) The membership of the David Duke Fan Club
B) The racial breakdown of the most successful Liberace impersonators
C) The demographics of the Men’s Rights subreddit
Well, ok, that was too easy. It is of course all of the above. I’m guessing. It’s definitely C, at least, as this chart was prepared to show the results of the 2013 Men’s Rights subreddit demographic survey.
Now, you might say, well, isn’t Reddit itself a pretty white place? And you would be right. But the Men’s Rights subreddit seems to be a bit whiter — and a lot less black — than Reddit as a whole, if Quantcast’s estimates of Reddit’s overall ethnic breakdown are accurate.
In other completely non-surprising news, 89% of Men’s Rights Redditors are men. And a lot of them are libertarians. MRAs complain endlessly that we pigeonhole them as a bunch of entitled white dudes. They’re really not doing much to challenge that assumption.
The most important issue to these fellas (and the small minority that aren’t fellas)? Survey says: False rape accusations.
Other critical issues to the Men’s Rightsers include “custody rights” (which is a bit odd because 92% of those surveyed have no kids), “legal discrimination” (whatever that means), “education discrimination” (this is a thing?), and “male disposability.”
“Male birth control” and “paper abortion,” while relatively less important to the Men’s Rightsers, each got hundreds of votes.
I’m surprised “friendzoning” isn’t at the top of the list, but unfortunately it wasn’t one of the choices. I blame misandry.
So who’s up for Friday Night Bras & Makeup chat? Gotta be more interesting than the rank attention whoring and intellectual dishonesty session. That’s gone on too long.
O: *Takes bow*
Ah, the old ‘deflect the insult by pretending that you enjoyed it’ tactic. Used to use that one myself, back when I was 12 and trying not to get my ass kicked by the people who were insulting me.
Sorry dude, but you are really, really pathetic.
Can’t do bras and make up, but this evening I harvested the huge sage plant in our garden and made sage flowers in tempura batter. YES I AM A MAN AND I LITERALLY COOKED AND ATE FLOWERS. Which is probably misandry or something.
Oh! The quote is from Neil Strauss, Emergency – I recall it as being a conversation between him and Mad Dog when they’re about to slaughter a goat. It’s from the prologue, so you can find it easily.
I assumed you’d be familiar, based on your writing about fighting styles and the praise leveraged to Neil Strauss’ earlier books. If not, I recommend it, it’s fun reading if you have an hour or two.
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No, but:
or
But anyway, this conversation has reached an impasse. There’s little to say – I disagree with your notion that the principle reason to oppose rape is because it’s less efficient than negging.
I guess I’m not really cut out to be a pussy pragmatist q:
Well, I’m sold. There’s no way that someone who refers to other human beings in social interactions as ‘targets’ could possibly be a complete fucking unredeemable douchebag asshole.
manboobs.com<<<<<<<<<>>>>>Manosphere.
= reality
kiki: the tempura sage flower sounds delicious. I wasn’t aware sage flowered. My garden skills are… well, we have a couple tomato pants that actually lived and fruited, so that’s a step up.
We can do food talk as well.
I see at some point this afternoon the Flump gave up even trying to type something that could be recognized as language.
Your coding is a little off. Did you mean:
manboobs.com<<<<<<<<>>>>Manosphere.
To indicate that the layers of the manosphere and the commentariet layers of Manboobs both do not correlate very much to reality?
Because that’d be quite clever
and a good way to lever
some leverage against the notion that
you’re not clever, however – still bad
(as in, and I’d know – I’m Legit – badly confused).
Godalmighty, we had a terrific thread about our survey going,and it’s been taken over by attention whore troll. David, can you ban Mr Wall of Text or at least moderate him until he learns not to be more boring than Some Guy and B****** put together?
Goddam can’t this manchild get banned already? I’m feeling like I’m 10 again. Except this sucks and he’s an adult who is pretty rapey from what I can tell. *shudders*…
Am I right in thinking that Flump’s comment is basically intended to mean ‘Manosphere rules, Manboobz drools’? Somebody actually bothered typing 30-odd characters for that?
If so, what the fuck? I mean, I know they’re always morons, but with OF and this guy, did posting here just become a project for some bizarre grade school run by MRAs? Can we have the (at least chronologically) grown-up trolls back please?
He’s one of the trolls who’s not even amusing to read, he’s just a dirtbag misogynist who is booooooooooring. Nothing new there.
Anyone else think it’s banhammer time?
manbobz is 10 integers away from reality
Manisphere is “only” 7 integers away from reality
I typed it perfectly coherently – the comment system somehow messed up, guess it didn’t like those symbols.
@TheFlump
You’re like ten comments in and have yet to specify a single example of how wrong we all are. Put up or shut up.
@Flump:
Ah, you were using brackets. We use those for coding around here, so because of that it’d erase the first pair and mess up the rest, thinking you were somehow trying to code something.
Shorter Flump: it was a glitch!
Maybe that explains his incoherence all damn day.
I just started using BB cream and I love it. It’s a moisturizer, mattifier, sunscreen, and foundation all in one. I’ve noticed it actually makes my skin clearer as well as looking natural.
I had permanent makeup done last year also. I had my eyebrows and eyeliner done. It hurt like the dickens, but I’m very happy with the results. I can swim, sweat, or wake up first thing in the morning with perfectly done brows and lined eyes. In the future, though, if I need a touch up, I will get it done in a Kansas City clinic where they use painkillers. Tattoo gun + eyelids = OUCH!
Speaking of that survey, guess who’s back? ^.^
1) I’m thinking of doing gender as M // F // trans* // other with a subpage for trans* that includes all the binary and non-binary options I can googlefu (and, of course, an other box). Idk on this one, but I sorta want to be able to have a general cis v. Trans* ratio. Particularly since I suspect we’re less cis than the general population.
2) As three scales —
Do you feel accepted by your peers?
By society on general?
Here at manboobz?
Thoughts?
3) “In terms of this here poll – Does Hispanic basically just mean Mexican?”
“no, Histpanic does not not mean Mexican, and implying erases all the different countries and cultures in Latin America.”
Mexican, Central American, South American, European — non-Hispanic; European — Hispanic; what else do I need to add? (I’ll post the full list in a minute, it’s on my laptop)
David’s two points —
1) could you do it so it uses cookies or otherwise guards against ballot stuffing? I don’t want tampering by the you know whos.
I am really torn on this one. On one hand, yeah, trolls. On the other, folks like Marie and Fade might get only one shot, and LBT definitely would (and while Rogan’s the only regular, Mac, Sneak and Gigi have dropped by from time to time). Totally open to suggestions how to resolve that conflict.
2) I’m more interested in getting good data than in comparisions with the r/mr survey, so don’t feel compelled to match their poorly thought out categories.
Yeah I’m going with RiliKat’s idea — have one question as inclusive as possible, and another limited to the r/mr options. Seems like it’d resolve the desire for good data, and my desire to properly compare the two.
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I’m adding “are you a gold digger” to the smart ass question. Which is rapidly becoming the mock Martin question (well, and dinosaurs and robots and pirates)
WHich BB cream did you pick?
A good friend of mine does permanent makeup. My hat’s off to you–I have large tats elsewhere, but I don’t think I could stand having my face done.
Oh and the political options still suck, give me more to include!
Also, religion question? Yes/no to having one? If yes, I’m thinking a simple scale of “I consider myself religious (strongly disagree, disagree, sort of disagree, neutral, sort of agree, agree, strongly agree)”
I think that’s all my thoughts on it at present, but I’ve barely touched my coffee.
Hm…cookies…I have an idea, I have to check something on that…
Argenti: is there a way you could give Marie, Fade, and LBT logins or something so they could participate separately? I know nothing about how what you’re using works, so if that’s completely dumb of me, no worries.
I like those religion options. I’d keep the politics as simple as that too.
For troll avoidance, would it be feasible to do the survey via email? Have it set out as something we can copy here, then mail it to Dave and he can forward it to you? It’d be a pain, I know, but if it stops trolls getting in …
thebionicmommy, ow! I can’t imagine sitting through eyelid tattooing without flinching so much I’d end up with zigzag eyeliner.