Above, a picture that’s been floating around online for a little while, helpfully meme-ified by Manception on the AgainstMensRights subreddit.
Below, a picture of an anti-abortion protestor at the Texas State Capitol that Amanda Marcotte posted on Pandagon a while back under the title Silent Mansplaining. Which pretty much sums it up.
Have any of you run across any similar photographic evidence of real-world man-activism you’d like to share?
DireSloth–
For the longest time, I had flat cookies, seemingly at random. I finally figured out what the problem was, it was beating the eggs too hard, too long, or too fast. Eggs are what hold them together, after all, and over-mixing breaks them up.
So I add the eggs at the end, right before the flour mixture. And mix on the lowest setting I can manage.
Also, the recipes on the backs of chocolate chip bags are pretty good. But I like to taste the cookie part. So I use half to two thirds the bag of chips, substitue 1 cup brown sugar and a half cup of white sugar for whatever they are saying, and add some amount extra of vanilla (I haven’t measured vanilla in, like 12 years).
Beloved likes me to use some peanut butter chips for half the batch instead. But I don’t do that unless I have assistance, because splitting the dough and mixing separately is a pain.
I totally thought we were still talking about fetuses.
katz–
It’s much funnier that way.
katz – and here I thought ‘buns in the oven’ was just a saying!
@ ak
yeah, that must be really rough for you, having a (gasp) mentally ill brother. people with disabilities are just a bummer to know, huh?
seriously, that was a super gross comment, and I don’t love that everyone just kind of let that go. as someone with numerous mental health problems I’m pretty tired of seeing people use mentally ill as a marker of being ‘difficult’. I can promise you it’s not that relatives of people with mental health problems that suffer in these situations.
@girlofthegaps- Here is the Salon article about the study; links for the study embedded in the article.
@ wordsp1inner- awwww BAYBEEZ!
fit to freak – if you bother to read this blog at all you’ll know that equating mental illness with assholery isn’t something we accept here. AK’s point was specifically that zir brother is NOT a douchecanoe. You really think it’s a no-go to mention someone’s conditions having caused grief in the same comment as saying zie is a much-loved and good person? Especially when the commenter is referring to someone they know very well, and you don’t know at all?
Maybe you could try not being an asshole yourself.
I can see where you’re coming from, fit-to-freak. Personally, I don’t have any issue with what AK said because I know my mental illnesses make things harder for my family and for the other people I love.
Oh, and fit-to-freak? Your comment reads like you think none of the regulars reading this have mental problems. Guess what, plenty of us do, and physical ones too.
That read like straight-up trolling to me. Apparently I’m the only cynic in the group, at least until hellkell gets here.
My trolldar must be down! Damn crummy provider services. ::grumble::
I’m waiting on comment #2 before I decide troll for sure. Mostly because there are people who view their mentally ill relatives as inconveniences instead of as suffering human beings, and I would understand if fit-to-freak is sensitive to that particular kind of dehumanization. That said, I don’t think AK was doing that at all.
The nym isn’t exactly helping to keep my cynicism in check.
I thought the bit about “the relatives don’t suffer” is painting with far too broad a brush, at best. No, it’s not the same level of suffering, but to deny it happens at all? Bullshit.
Plus there are those who’ve been on the receiving end of alcoholics’ behaviour, and fuck that noise about there being no suffering if that comes into it. (AK I am not talking about your brother there!)
It does seem an odd choice of nym to go with the expressed concerns.
When the OP image was posted on to a Facebook page that I frequent, someone proffered the following possibly faux-naïve suggestion:
Yeah, I was side eyeing fit to freaks comment too. It does seem very trolly- like zie was not trying to address any actual ableism but rather mocking the people who call out trolls who engage in ableism.
I don’t know if I made any sense. I should probably get dressed and walk the Furrinati now.
http://i.imgur.com/umaH5HX.jpg
Unfinished? So it was JohntheOtter and he was attacked by 1834070000000 feminazis with flamethrowers before he could finish his message of peace and historical information! :O
Furrinati: “Stop taking my picture, servant, I’m trying to sleep!” 😀
You made perfect sense, btw.
I gotta get my trolldar tuned. Damn, that can take days.
I’m thinking you might have to carry the Furrinati, actually.
@Cassandra
LOL. Yeah, she’s not the most active dog (fetch? um, no) but she will go for walks.
BTW That picture was taken years ago- for some reason I cannot upload pictures fro my phone onto this computer, so unfortunately I do not have any current pictures of her to show you. 🙁
@wordsp1nner Adorable KITTIES!!!
To me, fit-to-freak read waaaaaaay to much into AK’s comment, and if zie’d been here any length of time, zie’d know how we feel about being insensitive to the mentally ill.
I vote drive-by shit disturber.
What bothered me spefically about the comment was the ‘may be’ part. As though, he’s got his problems but at least he’s not as bad as this other guy. When in reality a persons choice to be a sexist asshole is not in any way comparable to having mental health problems. And yeah, okay family might have to deal with some shit, but honestly I’ve gotten pretty tired of people comferting my parents about about how hard it must be to have a kid with my problems- often in front of me. So, yeah I’m gonna be a unhappy with people discussing their disabled relatives in terms of how difficult it is for them. If it really, truly wasn’t meant that way, fine, I’ve been up all night so it’s possible I’m in a really off place. But yeah, those types of comments rub me the wrong way and not for no reason. Also I never implied in any way that other commenters aren’t disabled- seriously show me where that was. Just cause you guys work to call out ableism doesn’t mean it never happens. I’m not a troll, I’m just really really tired of being the ‘difficult’ side note.
Fuck I’m just really tired. I can’t tell if I’m over reacting anymore I honestly don’t know so never mind okay fuck