So, there’s a whole bunch of MRA stuff I should be writing about now, and some Roosh drama, but, you know, my heart just isn’t in it at the moment. So I’m going to take a few more days off to clear my head. In the meantime, I would suggest keeping up with the latest MRA and PUA shenanigans by checking out the AgainstMensRights and TheBluePill subreddits, respectively.
Also, I thought you all might appreciate this video of a cat discovering snow for the first time.
And Happy New Year! Or did I already wish you guys that?
Canadians! My brother has a question — is it true that the new paper money up there smells like maple syrup?
@ Argenti Aertheri……..ya ya, that is actually true, but only the new hundred dollar bills.
Adorable! One of my cats in my lap loved this video too! I think he was jealous! Snow fun!
Oh and David you need a break you need a break . Rest your heart . ((((HUGS))))
this one is between perspectives — thanks! I’ll let him know
@pnhoff3: so I watched er, started watching that video, it’s pretty awful and very dismissive and itself doesn’t address/rebutt her points so much as say she is somehow ‘fraudish’. I especially like how they say ‘gender issues in games are serious’ but they arn’t a big deal because not sexist games exist/we already know sexist games are sexist….(wait the video ended? they haven’t addressed anything other than said her videos should be fancier for the amount of money she got).
I also have not found any counter arguments that actually address her points/engage in real debate. At first I thought this was strange since I don’t personally agree with everything she said so I figured there must be other internet savvy ppl who feel similarly.
But I have a theory about that: one of my biggest criticisms for it was that it was rather simplistic and gender binary, but then I realized that is because I am well versed in anthropology, systems of power, and gender theory(as many of the people here are but) in the grand scheme of the internet most people are not. I think there are no good rebuttals to her videos because the people who would take the time to rebutt her (or be really offended by the things she said) don’t have the tools to really deconstruct her work in a coherent fashion.
or to be more snobby and colloquial all us fat cats up in our ivory towers drinking champagne and wearing monocals wouldn’t really bother to respond to things that are so obvious or introductory level.
phnhoff3, hi and welcome! Have you had your Official Complimentary Welcome Package yet?
Can’t help re: Anita’s videos, I’m one of the few non-gamers here.
awwwwww man, I didn’t get an official welcome package
Off-topic, but another bit of irrefutable pro-life propaganda, this one arguing that men are lazy and coercive for…encouraging women to finish school?
(Come on, guys, I could make better pro-life comics than this. Why not have him say “We don’t have room in my sports car for a baby” or “We can’t go to Tijuana for spring break if we have a baby,” or something like that?)
If I had a uterus, I’d be very appreciative of a boyfriend willing to pay for an abortion. Talk about making things easier for me. Also, doesn’t paying for the abortion actually make things more difficult for men in the technical sense?
Pro-lifers really just need to go away forever.
Happy New Year everyone!
pnhoff3, I feel the same way about Anita. I don’t agree with a LOT of what she says, but the amount of hate she gets is ridiculous. It isn’t hard to address her points if you disagree, and she actually does bring up some decent ones too. Here are the videos and channels I found that either shut down the whiners or address her arguments properly (this turned out to be longer than I thought).
This guy, DawnBringer, has a few, his whole channel is worth looking at, he gets into it with Elam and GWW frequently too:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAC-xmlgxzKf7BoMZsm72nw
Going Rampant is the shit, she does feminist critiques like FF but I think her stuff is better. She has at least couple videos that critique Anita or defend her (she says she’s a big fan of her and the reason she wanted to make her own videos):
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCsl7-0VADUKf5MbjKmmFQ
And of course ToolTime has a great series on FF, the first half is doing a reasonable critique, the second half is critiquing the stupid arguments against her:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsu6NM_ARGWzDwL1C9xEhqA
BigLundi also has a good channel, here’s his Anita video:
Hannibal is another great YouTuber worth checking out, here are his three Anita videos that shut down the conspiracy theories while also doing a reasonable critique himself (the second video is the critique while the other too are about all the haters):
Sequester Zone has a back and forth with an obnoxious user who rants about Anita, here is one of them, go check out his whole channel for more:
KiteTails has probably the most respectful critique of Anita, she is very sweet and of all the people who only disagreed with her she did the best job:
A very intelligent response to stupid kid Mr Repzion’s raving about Anita by a user called Char42. I wish this guy did more:
I think that’s it. All of these are good but I wish there were more too. Hope that helps.
Wow, that pro-life comic was incoherent.
He loses $550, and she gets to continue her education, and this is helpful only to him and not her?
I’m trying to imagine the audience with which this comic would resonate. I’m coming up blank.
What is this stuff going on with Roosh?
Also, it appears that WF Price is “missing.” The commenters are baffled that David is not gloating over this.
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2014/01/04/where-is-bill-price/
Alice, I know he went over to the /r/thebluepill and made a big stink over his own subreddit being downvoted to all hell (apparently by them, but as was pointed out to him he’s hated enough that he could just be getting downvoted because he sucks) and everyone laughed really, really hard. I thought that’s what David was referring to but it could be something else.
Go over there an check it out either way, it’s pretty entertaining.
The woman in that anti-abortion cartoon is really weird looking. Possibly she’s confused as to why her finishing school would be a bad thing.
What a waste of a classic 80s Tina Turner hairdo.
Also speaking of Roosh and /r/thebluepill, if anyone needs a laugh:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheBluePill/comments/1uamwn/i_had_sex_with_roosh/
“I made him his favorite: saffron rice and cut up hotdogs in a bread bowl”
Fucking lost it.
I was trying to figure out if the woman’s bizarre appearance (and the man’s Popeye-like muscular arms and New Kids on the Block hairstyle) were supposed to mean something, but it appears not. It doesn’t even appear that it was drawn in the 80’s, despite the awkward hand lettering: It’s signed with the handle of a guy who hangs out on The Free Republic.
Huh, that is weird. The guy looks almost 50s though? I figured his name was probably Biff or something like that.
You didn’t get an official welcome package, this one is between perspectives?
Remedy!
This sentence confused me sooooo much for a second. =P
I hope this doesn’t come off wrong, but the woman in that comic strikes me as a stereotypical, um…grah, how to word it…ah! Snooki, the stereotype Snooki fills. As seen pre-Snooki.
In context…she’s supposed to look “cheap”, I think.
As for who that’s supposed to resonate with, no fucking clue. And I used to be pro-life (yeah, I know, I wish I had a TARDIS to go smack myself)
In random things, the last nerves of my sanity are being grated upon, by snail shells in puff’s filter. Someone PLEASE teleport me a cucumber so I can trap the snails! My sanity today is already iffy and now that grating noise! I’m probably going to have to take apart the damned pump too, that’ll be unpleasant work, but that grating noise!
*rubs temples* apparently the only appropriate response from manboobz regarding WTF Price being missing is, um, idk?
geographybeefinalisthimself January 4, 2014 at 12:53
I bet Manboobz is gleeful right now. It would be just like him to wish ill on Price. Manboobz already picks on people with disabilities who don’t benefit from feminism (feminists despise all men with disabilities) and who understandably disagree with feminism. He’s done it to me and probably to another disabled man who does not support feminism.
A Nony Mouse January 4, 2014 at 13:44
Have the ManBoobzers been rejoicing at the absence of Bill? Nay, it’s far worse than that. I’ve gone over the last month’s post and I can’t see where anyone has even noticed him missing. They are too busy guffawing at Paul Elam and his band of henchpersons.
Yeeeaaah. Idfk.
I’m assuming by “disabilities” they mean “creepy guys and self-diagnosed incels,” right?
Bigot (Price) AWOL! Yawn.
Um, why are people here supposed to have noticed that Price is missing? Most of us don’t read his blog, so how would we know?
@ katz
I am seconding that assumption.