When you look at the above picture — a group portrait of the Congressional freshman class of 2013 — what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Maybe something along the lines of “there sure are a lot of white dudes in that picture!”
Not if you’re “Emmanuel Goldstein” over at Roosh V’s Return of Kings blog. No, he looked at that same picture and thought: American women sure are a bunch of worthless attention whores!
Why? Because some of the women in the picture have the temerity to wear … bright colors!
[N]ot one man appears in bright red, blue, pink or yellow. For the men, it gets about as radical as a light grey suit … The women, on the other hand, have never met a gauche shade of neon they wouldn’t wear. Why are American women so hell bent on attention whoring, precisely in the places where they say they want to be taken seriously? Why do women ‘fight for equality’ by swapping outfits with Bozo the Clown? Why are old white women so desperate to show us their wrinkly cleavage?
I’m not exactly sure how you’re defining “cleavage” here, EG, but I’m not really seeing a lot of it in this picture. Well, none, really. None cleavage. I see one outfit, possibly two, that might under some circumstances reveal a small amount of cleavage.
Not that it really matters, as EG’s outrage is purely for show.
He quotes the late paleo-con Lawrence Auster, who also professed to be similarly outraged by women and their terrible breast-baring clothes.
The way many women dress today, with half their breasts exposed, is an expression of total disrespect for men. Men are left with three possible responses. To grab the woman, which is illegal; to ogle the woman, which is socially unacceptable; or to affect not to notice the woman at all, which is emasculating. A culture that normalizes such female behavior—i.e. not only not noticing or objecting to it, but prohibiting any objection to it—is extremely sick.
Really? Men suffer because sometimes they see cleavage and they’re not allowed to grope or drool? Oh, you poor, poor fellows! Should I prepare the fainting couch?
EG then turns to Laura Woods, the self-proclaimed Thinking Housewife, who once declared
revealing dress in professional settings [to be] a last-ditch effort by women to salvage their femininity. They are living daily lives of masculine aggression and drive. They are pressured to destroy their inherent selflessness and desire to serve. They make their breasts appear overblown, near-to-bursting balloons as a way of diverting attention from what they have become.
Near-to-bursting balloons? Apparently Woods has been watching too much office-themed porn.
Naturally, EG agrees wholeheartedly with Woods:
Hers may be the most potent explanation yet. I have surmised as much about the ubiquity of the color hot pink, as a microcosm of this drive, and it’s popularity as a marketing tool to women. It is an impossibly ugly, tacky hue, yet women love it. These women are not feminine in any meaningful way, yet they think that having a vagina is something to be proud of. Wearing hot pink is akin to liking an anti-Kony group on Facebook to feel like you’re doing your part to fight genocide.
Wait, what?
Wearing hot pink is akin to liking an anti-Kony group on Facebook to feel like you’re doing your part to fight genocide.
I’m tempted to stop here, because there’s no way he can get any dumber than this.
But then I remember that I forgot to mention the one man who EG sees as the “male analog to the women I describe.” That is, the male analog to those whorish congresswomen and their oh-so-revealing pantsuits. His name, EG tells us, is
Buzz Bissinger, a GQ contributor who later checked into rehab for a shopping addiction. … Oh, it turns out he’s had some homosexual encounters as well. I’d love to see a straight man test the bounds of ‘equality,’ and dress like these buffoons, and still keep his job.
Damn those bisexual men and their bisexual style privilege! Straight men truly are the mostest oppressed of the most oppressed!
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of Mr. Bissinger, the male analog, evidently taken while he was on the job:
As you may have noticed, he’s not exactly the “male analog” to the pantsuited congresswomen above, given that in the middle picture there he seems to be wearing NOTHING BUT HIS UNDERPANTS AND SOME WRISTBANDS.
You don’t see that a lot in the Congressional Women’s Caucus.
essentialism is about the nice plant oils you use to make the room smell good
I don’t really understand hypnosis even though I’ve read a lot about it. I’ve tried self-hypnosis (using mp3s, etc) and it never seems to take.
Barbarism – All about haircuts.
XD
It’s about public relations.
gism – it’s all about enlisted men
I watched a live show once of a stand up comedian/hypnotist. He hypnotized a group of people on stage, but then one of the participants threw up on the floor. That must have been his rage trigger, because he had an epic meltdown over it. He kicked her and her friends out, and then went on to insult the audience. He called us every name in the book and then some, and I kept asking my husband “Is this for real, or is he some kind of Andy Kaufman genius that I don’t understand?”
He pointed to each of us and said “Yeah, I see you with your arms folded thinking you’re better than me and I’m not funny enough for you. Why aren’t you laughing?!” He also yelled at his assistant for not cleaning the mess on stage fast enough. I kind of wanted to leave the show early, but I didn’t want to make him any madder. I only wish I had had a camera to catch it all, just to prove it actually happened.
I am still skeptical about stand up hypnotism.
@thebionicmommy
That sounds really uncomfortable. What a douche.
Or elephants playing tennis: http://www.collectorsprints.com/_images/babar/tennis-400.jpg
OMGBabar! I remember Babar!
“They make their breasts appear overblown, near-to-bursting balloons as a way of diverting attention from what they have become.”
Dang, the congressional ratings are so low that the women are trying to distract people from noticing they are members of congress by showing their cleavage? That’s pretty bad.
Prism is all about Pris Stratton from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
katz, prism = all about public relations
I am very glad I wasn’t drinking anything, because it would have been all over my screen! However, I was on the phone and started laughing and the topic was about floods and it was awkward… Very clever ^.^
Oh Babar, I remember you from my childhood. I will always think of the movie with the elephants being enslaved by the rhinos as my first introduction to issues of that magnitude. And problems that can be solved by hot air balloons.
Organism – all about grandiose keyboard instruments.
I’m pretty sure that if these women wore black or gray outfits like their male colleagues, then they’d complain how they’re trying to act like the men or something.
It’s also sad how these people fail – or flat out refuse – to acknowledge that society gives certain dress code pressures to different sexes / genders.
Except that I’m pretty sure they do, since they tend to complain about what women wear no matter what they have on.
Basically, like this ;
@Marie, yes he was a major league douche. I learned a valuable lesson, though, and that is to never attend another stand up comedy/group hypnosis show, no matter how cheap the tickets are.
One thing I’ve noticed about stage hypnotists (I’ve seen three) is that, if YOU get good vibes from the hypnotist, then the volunteers will too, and it’ll probably be a good show. But if the dude’s creepy right off, then you might as well just leave, because it’s just going to keep being creepy but also awkward when the volunteers start rejecting what he says.
A question for the room (inspired by the “It’s emasculating to not grope or ogle women!” thing).
Do you think most of these people believe men and women to be inherently, irredeemably DIFFERENT, which leads them to dismiss women? Or, do they dislike women, which they then justify by developing this model where men and women are just hugely evolutionarily terribly different?
@tedthefed
I know my dad’s fiance thinks men and women are just different :/ Kinda makes her annoying to be around when she’s spewing it. And when I got annoyed her way of apologizing was saying ‘I’m not saying it’s a bad thing.’ Blah.
And I saw most of “these” people after I typed that, so now my rambles sound weird. She’s nowhere near mralevels of misoginistic, so I’m probably making her sound way worse than she is. But she does seem to think men and women are just different.
/rambling.
@Marie:
That’s sort of the way the whole poison works. Lots of people have these little misogynist beliefs that they haven’t examined, and MRAs just take them all together and magnify them through a lens of hatred and vitriol.
Anarchism is all about living near an arch. That’s why most anarchists live in St. Louis, Missouri.
@tugley
It’s not something to do with spiders? I would love to bow down before our spider overlords.
(…hope that makes sense XD)
@Howard bannister
Yeah :/ Not really sure what to add to what you just said, but it was…sense making and stuff.
Feudalism is about the Hatfield-McCoy animosity.
Stage hypnosis/mesmerism is pretty much a gag. The volunteers, even if they aren’t plants, generally are taking license to act out (there’s a reason they call for volunteers–you have to be the sort of person who wants to cluck like a chicken on-stage).
Therapeutic hypnotism… still skeptical. I think it has some value as a relaxation/de-stress technique, but that’s about it–it doesn’t help with memory recovery or addiction (save to the extent that calming down can help you think clearly and cope with cravings). And it does have the ability to really mess someone up if it’s not presented that way–the whole satanism/child-abuse scare in the ’80s seems to have been nothing but the result of bad therapists giving their patients false memories. How warped do you have to be to inflict memories of abuse on someone who wasn’t abused?
Does that mean people living in Moab, Ut are likely to be somearchists?
When I don’t know what to add to something I’m all, hey,
Kitten!
It’s a Kitten in milk!
Because kittens trump logic and stuff.