Turns out VICE made a video about that Men’s Rights rally in Toronto. GO WATCH IT.

Even Republicans have some sentimental attachment to the idea that people should in theory care about their own kids, though. It’s specifically the MRA insistence that it should be acceptable to write off kids who you have a relationship with because their mother isn’t fucking you and cooking you dinner any more that I can’t see playing well with most people.

Λυνα is Luna written in Greek.

Oh strewth, that bit about Rome sounds like the dreaded g0ys LBT told us about – isn’t that one of their hangups?

Not that the people handing out those stupid pamphlets would do anything but have a huge hissy fit about the g0ys. Be kind of fun to put them together, in a way.

The g0ys are actually a counterargument to the idea that it’s possible to turn people away from a harmful ideology by saying “you realize that the people you’re supporting hate you too, right?”.

http://g0ys.org/initialize.htm

And I’ve got an associated and even better one for you.

http://man2manalliance.org/crw/sg.html

So NSFW, but there’s treasure trove of timecubian oddity to explore.

That site’s also NSF anyone who doesn’t want their eyes bleeding from the sheer horror of the *cough* design *cough*

I think my favorite part of the cockrub warriors site is the illustrations. They’re like Mad Max meets Adam Ant at a Halloween party for professional wrestlers.

No sorry, Dave, calling them a bunch of Lepines waiting to happen is righ on target. Go read that post you made a while ago where reddit users were talking about their fantasies of killing women.

I get that they hate anal sex and men who admit that they’re gay, but what did the word “fuck” ever do to them to make them think it deserves to be spelled “phuck”?

Oh typical, Mr I Hate Analogies also hates etymology and the strain of even looking something up on good ol’ Wikipedia, to wit:

The American slang term is first recorded in 1914, the shortened form fag shortly after, in 1921. Its immediate origin is unclear, but it is based on the word for “bundle of sticks”, ultimately derived, via Old French, Italian and Vulgar Latin, from Latin fascis.

The word faggot has been used in English since the late 16th century as an abusive term for women, particularly old women, and reference to homosexuality may derive from this, as female terms are often used with reference to homosexual or effeminate men (cf. nancy, sissy, queen). The application of the term to old women is possibly a shortening of the term “faggot-gatherer”, applied in the 19th century to people, especially older widows, who made a meagre living by gathering and selling firewood. It may also derive from the sense of “something awkward to be carried” (compare the use of the word baggage as a pejorative term for old people in general).

An alternative possibility is that the word is connected with the practice of fagging in British private schools, in which younger boys performed (potentially sexual) duties for older boys although the word faggot was never used in this context, only fag. There is a reference to the word faggot being used in 17th century Britain to refer to a “man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster”, but there is no known connection with the word’s modern pejorative usage.

The Yiddish word faygele, lit. “little bird”, has been claimed by some to be related to the American usage. The similarity between the two words makes it possible that it might at least have had a reinforcing effect.

There used to be an urban legend, called an “oft-reprinted assertion” by Douglas Harper, that the modern slang meaning developed from the standard meaning of faggot as “bundle of sticks for burning” with regard to burning at the stake. This is unsubstantiated; the emergence of the slang term in 20th-century American English is unrelated to historical death penalties for homosexuality.

In other words, the century-old Americanism has naff all to do with the British word for cigarettes. That fag comes from fag end, the worn-out end of something, originally in the sense of a frayed end of rope.

… which makes me wonder if this is what some fag-end cigarettes tasted like.

What. A. Maroon.

Lord, the moderation filter’s sensitive tonight. Even asterisked versions of the word that starts with F and ends with G (or the longer version ending with T) get slammed.

Mr Idiot has no more idea about etymology than anything else. The UK and American words have totally different origins and meanings: one from the f– end of something, like a frayed rope, and originally referring to cigarette butts; the other from a slur directed at women, originally, and applied to homosexual men by extension.

Though I daresay he’d even get worked up about ANALogies and cigarette BUTTS, too.

Twit.

Phuck? Sounds like someone from A Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream to me.