Apparently feminism has turned the lovely and obedient ladies of yore into a bunch of wild wolves and dingoes — by preventing men from “putting the foot down” when ladies misbehave. At least that’s what the always awful Men’s Rights Redditor who calls himself Alisdair_ and the 41 terrible people who’ve upvoted his comment so far think:
Thanks to chewinchawingum in the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing out this lovely quote. Huh. There’s something that seems oddly familiar about chewinchawingum.
kittehs – Are many MRA ephebophiliacs?
Actually, don’t answer that.
Or is it ephebophiles? Hmmm.
I don’t think I need to answer it. They’d prefer that term, they like to pretend they’re not wannabe pederasts.
I’m not caught up, but women are totally like dogs!
If they hurt you and you go OW, they stop. If you try dancing with them they may dance with you. If they like you and you offer a lap, they may take you up on that offer; also, movie time.
So…women are like well treated poodles? Or dogs can be perfectly decent animals without being punished beyond OW and “really?” (Actually, little dude was far more devoted than I’d want any human to be, but how many dogs will try dancing with you when one wrong move could get them crushed? I had to, it was just too cute)
Ok so maybe only the first one applies…but yeah, most women stop hurting you if you note that it hurts, contra MRM opinion.
Ephebophiliacs, because if you were going to talk about people with pneumonia you’d say pneumonics and if you’re having a gallery of Ophelias you should call them Opheliacs (I am, very loosely, paraphrasing from Emilie Autumn’s book)
And add everything Dvärghundspossen said about dogs to my points about women not wanting to hurt people and sometimes dancing and being cuddly with people they like.
Gender identity…oh boy…I spent the longest time all “I don’t exist” // “must be assigned gender” cuz trans* people feel strongly that they are not assigned gender (I realize that wording sucks) whereas I’m not particularly more fond of ID’ing as not assigned gender. That one does not have to have strong feelings for either binary gender was a “holy fuck I do exist” moment for me (cuz yeah, I’ve worked power tools in a skirt, am a master at make-up [mm, theatre] and mud and worms and bugs that aren’t spiders and all things slimy or scaled are cool)
Also, women are not axolotls, I am not debating keeping one in a tank in my room.
Keep one keep one keep one! And send lots of pictures because they are awesome looking. <3 amphibians
Katz — if I had room, and knew where to get one, this would not be a question! My desk is largely a CRT TV, so if I switch to LCD…but then I still need to find one…
Desire is not the problem here 🙂
I think part of the reason there’s so much confusion over gender is that a lot of the people who feel strongly about it fall nearer to the ends of the spectrum, which sort of enforces the idea that it is, in fact, a binary (along with the fact that we’re most of us socialized to view gender as a very differentiated binary)… I think that a lot of the time, people who are just pretty meh about the whole gender identity thing both don’t feel like they have a lot of stake in the matter, and tend not to talk about it a whole lot, which further reinforces this whole idea that you have to be one or the other, and not somewhere in between.
Of course, I could be totally wrong; I haven’t read a whole lot on the subject and I’m just going off my own experiences. I’m somewhat in the middle myself, and would personally like to look a lot more gender-ambiguous than my build actually allows for, but I just stick with ID’ing as my assigned gender because it’s less problematic than trying to do otherwise and I don’t actually feel any discomfort over doing so.
I do have a hard time empathizing with people who have/are/want to transition[ed/ing], because I don’t really feel that kind of strong feelings over my gender, but that doesn’t mean I don’t sympathize and support.
@Sparky: Nowadays I know a trans man who loves pink and lots of stereotypically female things so yeah, I know these people exist nowadays. But unfortunately, when you hear about trans people in mainstream media and so on it’s usually the stereotypical story (and I also know nowadays that lots of trans people were pushed into that narrative by medical professionals, too).
Regarding gender I don’t even know if I’m that different to people who identify as genderqueers or agenders or whatnot. I just feel that personally, it’s not worth it to identify as trans since, you know, I don’t exactly mind being called “she”. Also, struggling with mental illness already takes up all my, um, struggle energy, so I can’t be bothered with adding a trans struggle on top of it. So I choose to identify as cis. Easier that way, and it doesn’t hurt me. Although when a trans person says to me (as happened some time ago) “when you talk about gender you don’t really sound cis” I don’t go “YES I’M SO TOTALLY CIS”, I’m more like *shrug*.
Here’s a terrible post-left anarchist critique of feminism I found a while ago: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/feral-faun-essays#toc10
Thought I’d share it just because it’s so terrible.
I am totally glad humans don’t mate for life. I would be profoundly unhappy to be in a relationship with the person I lost my virginity with 20 some odd years down the road.
Alice, love the new kitty gravatar! 🙂
Cis is a term I’ve only known since I started reading Manboobz, so it sounds kind of silly to say I identify as something I’ve known for, what, two years out of fifty. I’m one of the majority who has the fortune (and privilege) to have sense of self and physical body align; like Dvarg, it’s more a *shrug* thing, which, again, I know is a privilege.
Now if I had legs that aligned I’d be really happy …
@ally
May favorite so far 😀
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*blub blub*
@mejas
oh shit i cant stop laughing help me. wait dude do you like exist in reality? *snortle* I thought beta males were supposed to be 80% of the population (or was that only puas? I know I heard it somewhere) MORE THAN 20% OF PEOPLE HAVE KIDS.
@mejas
this is OT, but I accidentally read mejas as marie and had a small sad 😛
Yes!
Most of the wolves in a pack are related to each other. Rarely do siblings or parent/childs mate in wolf packs. A big part of that is that wolves choose to disperse before they are 3 years old (wolves reach maturity around 2 years of age). And if food is plentiful matings beyond the top pair are tolerated (but they do keep their population in check). Wolves are fascinating!
Dogs are fascinating too! Actually, the whole canine world is interesting because their dna is unique. You couldn’t get that much variety out of any other species. It has to do with repeating codes in their dna. Thats how you get totally different body structures in dogs (skull changes, different tails, short legs, ect). You could NEVER change the fundamentals of a bovine the way you can change a dog.
@Ally
Did you search the tumblr “feminist” tag? If you haven’t already, I recommend keeping it that way. I tried, and half the posts were people being all like “omg women you’re not oppressed”.
Lili Fugit
My dog has very little training, but she still only snaps at you if you’re putting her in pain, which only happens if she accidently gets stepped on (which is happening more frequently, because just stepping near her can make her think you’re going to put her in pain because her arthritis is so bad. 🙁 )
Men are not hamsters
Male hamsters kill their babies
Oh, wait, I’m supposed to make men look bad here.
Men are not dogs
They don’t hump your leg
Dang it!
Men are not guinea pigs
They don’t make squeaky adorable noises while licking your hand.
There! I have successfully found a way to denigrate men through comparisons to animals. Men, the ball is in your court. I highly suggest adorable-ifying yourselves if you aren’t already adorable, and consensually licking peoples’ hands, either for salt or to show affection, depending on your mood.
Nope, I found it somewhere else. I do happen to have a Tumblr account (just made it actually) but I’m not searching for that tag per your suggestion =P
@fade
Love your rodent poems XD
Men are not guinea pigs
They do not eat lots of hay
Men are not guinea pigs
They do not eat their own poop
Men are not guinea pigs
They do not try to find new and creative ways to knock their water bottle over and spill it all over the bedding and leave me a big mess to clean up.
Not that I am bitter, or anything.
“It’s reality, Jim, but not as we know it.”
“Now if I had legs that aligned I’d be really happy …”
I snortled. Mostly cuz I’m debating upgrading to iOS 7 while waiting for my knee to sort itself.
I know one man who’d take that as a challenge. :/
@Mejas
I really don’t care if some guys aren’t getting sex. You aren’t entitled to sex. Get the fuck over it. Most people got out of the “gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine” stage by time they were six.
*plays the worlds tiniest violin for Mejas that he cannot make women do what he wants them to.
@Fibinachi
It would be better if they were, though, because nothing makes you happier than sticking our face in a dog’s coat. Especially northern breeds with thick coats. XD
Also, the “wolves mate for life” in contrast with “male mammals have always had harems”. It reads like “Why can’t I sleep around and not be devoted with people who don’t sleep with anyone but me and /are/ devoted?”
@Chie Satonaka
Are sims any fun? I keep seeing some games at half price books, but I never get them. They look kind of addicting, though.
Also, can you make disabled sims? Because I feel like I really wouldn’t want to play if you couldn’t…
@Fatman
My parents “mated” (okay, they got married :P) they had a family, had fun, then got stressed. Divorced. Now dad has “mated” a second time (married) and mom is happy being single.
So much less stressful than if you had to stick with your first mate. XD
@Ally
Ah. Ps, can I follow you on tumblr? I like adding manboobzers to my dash.
@Kittehserf.
Fine. MOST men don’t make squeaky adorable noises and lick your hand. XD
I wish my knee’d sort itself! But I think this is a permanent thing, now. Torn cartilage isn’t worth operating on, it just makes matters worse and makes osteoarthritis even more likely. The compression bandage thingy I’ve got helps, but damn, it needs a suspender belt to stop it falling down!
Fade, go ahead! Mine is iaf-thoughts.tumblr.com
Fade – LOL! Most men prolly don’t have regular bouts of Furrinati Weird like my bloke.
“It would be better if they were, though, because nothing makes you happier than sticking our face in a dog’s coat. Especially northern breeds with thick coats. XD”
Oooh yes, or kitties, too! Mads has decided she’s the hairstylist of the house. I love burying my face in her
fatcuddly fluffy side, and she’s taken to winding around and almost climbing on my head and trampling my hair while I do it. It actually made my hair look good when she did it yesterday!… Which freaked out my stepson when Louis and I turned up to the picnic wearing le style Madeleine. We’d messed up each other’s hair in the morning and hadn’t bothered fixing it. “What have you done to your hair, Father?” demands Philippe. “It is the style Madeleine,” says Louis. “You two are HOPELESS,” says Philippe, waving his hands and then hiding his face. “You have your hair done by a CAT when I could do it!” (Louis doesn’t actually get his hair done by Mads, ‘cos of her being here and him in Spirit, but eh, it’s the idea of it.)
The Cardinal had fallen flat laughing by this stage.