Over on MGTOWforums.com, a fellow calling himself donttrustwomen has written a little, well, I don’t quite know what it is — an essay? a manifesto? a poem? — called “The Average Woman of Today.” I think it’s fairly clear from reading it that he has never taken a course in statistics. And has possibly never actually met a woman.
The average woman of today is in the club every weekend
The average woman of today has 10-20 “good guy friends”
The average woman of today has 150 guys in her phone
The average woman of today dresses scandalous
I don’t know about that, but I’m pretty sure the average woman (of a certain age) of today watches Notorious.
Our MGTOW statistician continues:
The average woman of today has 1-2 abortions on her resume
I don’t think that generally goes on the resume. Where would it even go? Under “hobbies?”
Also, according to the Guttmacher Institute, less than half of American women have abortions by the age of 45. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
The average woman of today has or had a STD
Well, this is true. It’s also true of the average man of today. Indeed, according to the CDC, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is so common that nearly all sexually active people get it at some point in their life. Happily, most STDs are treatable. Also, use condoms!
The average woman of today cheats on her boyfriend or husband
Well, this is also true, at least according to the stats I found here, which suggest that a little more than half of women cheat on their partners at some point in their life. But guess what? Men cheat on their partners in similar numbers.
The average woman of today curses like a sailor
The average woman of today wears to much makeup
The average woman of today seeks attention whether negative or positive
Huh. For some reason the first person who pops to mind when I hear the phrase “attention seeking” is not a woman.
The average woman of today is on dating sites getting 100 msgs a day
Not exactly. There aren’t good numbers on this, but one online experiment found that while more conventionally attractive women could indeed get dozens of messages a day, an average woman might get all of three.
Also, have you actually seen the sorts of messages women on dating sites get? Who would even want to sort through a hundred of these a day?
The average woman of today expects you to pay her bills
Uh, what?
The average woman of today expects you to raise and accept her child out of wedlock
Well, no. But if you do agree to, say, marry a woman with children, her kids do indeed come as part of the deal. Just as when a woman marries a divorced father with kids. You are of course free to not date women with children or indeed any women at all.
The average woman of today rarely brings any redeeming qualities to the table
I’m not really seeing how a regular commenter on MGTOWforums.com really has any reason to complain on this front.
The average woman of today is manipulative
The average woman of today is selfish
The average woman of today gets bored easily
I think you may actually be talking about kitties here, not women. But kitties are adorable, so we forgive them.
Onward:
The average woman of today is on facebook, twitter, instagram feeding her ego through likes and followers
Yeah, no men ever do that.
The average woman of today would be stoned and called a harlot 3,000 years ago
The average woman of today rides the cock carousel
The average woman of today gives it up on the first night
Why does it make these guys so angry that there are women out there who enjoy having sex with men?
The average woman of today is unappreciative
Of dudes on the internet who hate her?
The average woman of today has lewd photos or videos circulating on the internet
Despite the astounding number of lewd pictures and videos online, I suspect that the percentage of women who’ve appeared in them is still relatively small. I wonder, though, how the number of women who’ve put nude or “lewd” pics of themselves on the internet compares to the number of guys who’ve sent dick pics to willing or unwilling recipients?
The average woman of today follows hypergamy
“Hypergamy,” in the traditional sense of “marrying upward” is actually on the decline, as women move in greater numbers into better paying jobs. “Doctors used to marry nurses,” Katrin Bennhold observes in a piece on the subject in the New York Times. “Now doctors marry doctors.”
The average woman of today files for divorce 70 percent of the time
Donttrustwomen seems to be confusing a couple of different statistics here. Yes, when couples divorce, the woman is more likely to be the one to file for divorce — though this does not necessarily imply that she’s the one responsible for breaking up the marriage. But 70% of marriages don’t end in divorce. Heck, the old saw about 50% of marriages ending in divorce is a myth; the correct percentage may be as low as 30.
The average woman of today looks for a starter husband
The average woman of today can’t tell the difference between a guy who cares about them and a guy who just wants them for sex
The average woman of today is unfit to marry or even call a girlfriend.
Keep telling yourself all this, dude. It’s in everybody’s best interests for you, personally, to continue to go your own way. Aren’t you guys getting an island, or something?
Yazikus — it’s a 30g with sump and one TINY figure 8 puffer, I have no idea how the ammonia levels are managing to stay so high when I pipette feed him and he almost never let’s anything hit the bottom. Not even a puffer can shit that much!
The average Argenti is yelling at test tubes because WHY WON’T YOU TURN PURPLE?!? (My ammonia, it is not being converted to nitrite which is impressive in a special way considering there should’ve been enough bacteria for 10g with the same bio-load)
Argenti, Is this a new tank? Was the cycle established already? My mistake was not doing a fishless cycle to start with, thinking you could just get a tank and toss the fish in. The Internet quickly informed me on my gross mistake (it told me what a terrible person I was, how could I bring a living creature into my home without properly researching it, I was perpetuating a cruel industry, etc.) By Internet, I clearly mean the fish forum I joined. Is there something going on with your water source?
I swapped an established 10g for a 30g. And I’ve actually never done fishless cycling, so I’m used to the initial spike but it’s been a week and I actually found and bought a proper bacterial starter…it should not be staying this high. Which means I probably should test the water but ewww.
In any case, I just stole some well cultured bio-media from the 55g’s fluval and tossed that in the sump, hopefully the magic of the fluval stays in all parts of the fluval (that thing was worth every penny)
Oh and the Internet can fuck off about fishless cycling, aquarists have been doing it safely with fish for decades and plenty still do. Just requires extra caution and Lots Of Water Changes. Doing it with a species that “meh, it was a buck, who cares if it dies” that’s cruel, doing it with a couple of fish and being extra careful about levels was the standard since fish tanks became affordable (so like, the 70s?)
@Yazikus KINGS QUEST! I was so bad at that game. I also played Police Quest, couldn’t get past the initial screens for Space Quest (I think I always sank in sand or something), and used to sneak play Leisure Suit Larry. Those games were so frustrating, having to magically know what to type in to progress and save every five seconds just in case you died from not knowing what to type in. I loved them though.
Test the *tap water
Which is we because ammonia should not be coming out of the faucet in any amount, particularly not these levels (I’m not talking .5 here, I’m talking it’s holding at 2+ despite having had a 100% water change over the last three days, that shouldn’t be possible)
Sounds like you are doing everything right, and the water will sort itself out shortly, with water changes. I’ve got an established ten gallon (which apparently is evil, according to the fish forum), but I’ve been interested in starting a 20 gallon riffle tank with indigenous minnows/soil. Maybe a crawdad, though apparently they are super tricky to keep in the tank.
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I had never siphoned anything until I started fishkeeping. So I was like, Siphoning, huh, this ain’t so bad! (gas prices are super bad, amirite????)
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My fishies did great, despite the lectures from the fish forum. Just a little extra work, toned the shoulders a bit- with the bucket lifting- but I learned a lot.
Jessay,
I always died in the meat grinder. So don’t feel so bad. My older siblings would hide the games on DOS, so my Mom wouldn’t find them (Magic is EVIL!!!!). Occasionally I would figure out a cheat code, razzledazzlerootbeer springs to mind, so that we could cheat. And it was super fun. I miss those games. I also really liked the tbg for Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I always died.
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Take the buffered analgesic from your pocket. Just do.
So- Manboobzers, I guess I’m officially de-lurking with my fish posts. I’ve been a long time reader, but usually I read on my I-pad and I hate typing on it. So I don’t comment. I took the lovely survey, Argenti, and was surprised to find I am totally an Average Woman Manboobz Commenter. Who knew? Some of you even live where I live! (Not creepy, just noticed a commenter talking about their College Graduation speaker, who was also in our local news).
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Hiya- All!
Oh man, the HHGG game was brutal. In a genre that’s always brutal, it had a reputation for being particularly brutal.
Hi, yazikus! Have an Official Welcome Package!
I was wondering if you’d gotten a welcome package! Thanks for handling that kitteh, I’m on, uh, 2 or 4 computers, depending how you count (2 VMs on the mac + iPad)
I’d be wary of crayfish // crawdad // those small lobster like things, at least in a tank that small. I’ve had ghost shrimp eat danios (well, one) and the shrimp are a whole lot smaller.
As for a 10g, pfft, depends what you put in it and the filtration, a single species school of a smaller species would be perfectly happy, mixed school of similar species, etc. Just no goldfish, I’ll have to get pecunium to tell you about how big they can get, but it’s impressive (make a fist, add fins, you’re getting the idea) — my 10g was a planted breeder tank until I went all “Must. Have. Those.” at figure 8 puffers. Which I preceded to end up owing my mother
my soultwo months of my shitty welfare income over. But 30g tank is all set up, starting the brakish conversion once the ammonia settles (figure 8’s are freshwater when little, brakish when they grow up, this guy is the size of a large pea, I’ve got time…and 10lbs of marine salt thanks to pecunium)It’s serving as a terrarium for some plant cuttings that’ll hopefully be added to pecunium’s plant collection (pecunium! You owe me a forsythia cutting!)
Glad you liked the survey!
Hi yazikus! I love it when people de-lurk.
And good night — I have been working on performance evaluations all day, and have three more to work on tomorrow. Ick. The extremely glamorous life of the mid-level manager.
G’night cloudiah!
Katz, the HHGG game was (and still is) brutal.
Getting stuck inside the whale was very brutal.
As a kid, I remember not being able to get out the front door because I didn’t realize what a buffered analgesic was.
Ha ha. I learned what a buffered analgesic was from that game.
Me too. 🙂
And then this suddenly made sense.
I also learned the word analgesic from that game.
And then, no joke, it was on the SATs.
Katz, and people say video games are bad for you.
RE: yazikus
I didn’t play any of the other Quest games, sorry. I was a Roberta Williams child, and I don’t think she did much with those.
RE: Jessay
Those games were so frustrating, having to magically know what to type in to progress and save every five seconds just in case you died from not knowing what to type in. I loved them though.
Yeah, I don’t play the text interface ones for that reason. I’m pretty accustomed to the Sierra form of brutality, though. (I just finished Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra. Most fun I ever had getting my ass kicked.)
Also, I learned the term ‘dangling participle’ from King’s Quest VI.
The one Infocom game I am most familiar with is the wordplay-game Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Head Nor Tail Of It, which was just awesome. I learned about so many foods in that game. Also serial killers (there was a guy ripping open cereals and eating them. Turns out he’s also a vampire with killer halitosis. To beat him, go to the meat aisle and get the mince and the steak.)
LBT, do you know there are free VGA remakes of the first three with point-and-click interfaces?