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Yet more proof that Men’s Rights activists live in an imaginary misandrist dystopia of their own making: this post on Reddit, which has the Men’s Righsters there in a tizzy:
Yeah, fellas, assuming that this even happened, I’m pretty sure what we’re dealing with is what the rest of us human beings call a “joke.” A dumb joke, but a joke nonetheless. This young lady, I feel confident in saying, does not actually intend to spermjack some innocent lad so she can spend the next 18-plus years of her life raising a child herself while trying to squeeze child support out of someone who hates her.
But don’t tell that to the Men’s Rightsers, who assume the worst about this young woman — and then some.
Indeed, some of the regulars there are so angry about it they literally want to get the young woman fired or at the very least admonished for making such a terrible, terrible comment in front of young, impressionable students who, I guess, have never heard a joke before.
Another commenter wonders how it is possible for a chubby woman to also be cute. Because fat women are hambeasts AMIRITE FELLAS HIGH FIVE!!!1!
If you scroll down far enough in the comments you will find some Men’s Rights Redditors wondering if maybe, perhaps, possibly, the woman might be making a joke. But these aren’t the comments getting the upvotes. In the Men’s Rights subreddit, anti-woman hysteria trumps rational skepticism pretty much all day, every day.
Q: How many Men’s Rights Activists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: MISANDRY! SPERMJACKING! MALE DISPOSABILITY! THAT’S NOT FUNNY!
Does she mean in the pledge of allegiance? ‘Cause it’s 2014 and it’s still there . . .
Random linguistic joke I saw recently – if “vegetarian” is the word for people who only eat vegetables, what do humanists eat?
(English is a silly language)
Shouldn’t that be “what do humanitarians eat?”
/humorless pedantry
That’s quite a compliment. XD A few more hits and I would be misspelling every single word and giggling to much to even focus.
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Other than rambling a bit people seem to be able to write OK when they’re stoned, it’s when someone’s drunk posting that it’s really obvious.
Yup, don’t forget the favorite, “Affirmative action is REVERSE racism!”
And the popular since 2008, “America can’t be racist. We have a black president.”
Of course I’ve got relatives who tell jokes where Obama becomes Little Black Sambo somehow in the punchline and then they get all wistful about how no one teaches that story in school anymore and it’s such a shame that everyone has to be so PC these days.
Extended family gatherings. I’m always dashing away from crap I don’t want to overhear.
I was just wondering why she might have thought the phrase “under God” went away in the 60s, because it didn’t (and in fact was only added to the pledge in 1954, but I guess a good conservative reason to hate the 60s is that they weren’t the 50s anymore).
I went to school in Texas briefly in the 80s, and I’m pretty sure it was in the pledge then.
Sometimes racism is just so WEIRD.
Better hope she never starts listening to conservative talk radio.
Blech, we had that story at school here in Oz in the, oh, late 60s, maybe early 70s. I hated it – not because of the racist content (I was six or so) but because THE TIGERS GOT KILLED.
Not to revive that conversation, but my comment thanking kiwi girl for the link had nothing to do with catgirl. The thank you was for giving me a lead in with someone I know quite well. Just wanted to clear that up.
Pecunium — seeing how I don’t see you trying to cook with mangos in the first place, only thing I need to balance the flavor is vodka! (Should you decide to make me my mango vodka mix, pick up cheap vodka, your liquor cabinet stuff isn’t in need of mangos [I started it when all I could afford was $10 Gordon’s in Pittsburgh, yes even booze is cheap there])
Oh and I’m glad the pup was just cranky about the photoshoot.
@Argenti, thanks for posting, that was the way *I* had interpreted your comment – so I *don’t* think it was you.
Apropos of nothing, I have just made yet another variant of limoncello tiramisu by combining what I consider to be the best of two recipes I have. If it turns out nice, I shall post my “reinterpretation”. While limoncello is alcoholic, I believe it would be relatively easy to substitute a non-sugar/low-sugar lemon drink to get an equivalent flavour – just in case someone wants to make it, who doesn’t drink alcohol.
I got lucky-ish in that none of my immediate family have huge -isms, but my mom’s brother (err, I guess my uncle, but I’ve only met him once so it feels weird calling him that.) is one of those ‘Obama is a Muslim and also wasn’t born in America’ people :/ And when she was trying to rant to us (me, brother and sister) she brought up the topic as ‘do you think Obama was born in America?’. This probably wasn’t as on topic as it should be, the conversation just reminded me of that.
@Auggz
Wow on that Fox news thing, tho I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. :/
Yeah, dog gets really excited when he realizes we’re at the vet to see the cookie doctor. She had an opening tomorrow when I took him for his steroid injection and the regular vet suggested I bring him in. He’s always so nice and relaxed afterward.
But it really sucks because there’s a thin coat of ice over everything outside right now. And we’re about to have to start another round of pill wars. 🙁
Mmmm, limoncello. I’ve never heard of that. I looked it up. Do you make your own or buy it?
auggz: This girl in my English class is pretty stupid. She said she would “NEVER EVER” date a black guy, and she’s writing about how American society “morally declined” in the 60s(because no more “under god” and such).
Does she know that, “under God” was added to the pledge in 1954? So that’s some pretty fast decline.
If she’s gonna argue that, “prayer in school” is needed, well there are huge areas of the country where prayer in school hasn’t ended. Texas is a moral bastion? What with the really high level of incarceration in the state.
Pecunium — one of my serial killer documentaries the serial killer actually decided to confess because Texas had enough evidence to convinct him without a confession but whatever state had him had dibs. How to get a serial killer to confess? Threaten him with the Texas prison system >.<
That was random, I know, but it amused me at the time I saw it.
Oh, man, the ____ist relative thing can be so. hard.
I get some FOX induced unpleasantness but at a remove or two from immediate family. I cope by leaving the room or by very obviously changing the topic (So, how about that local sports team?) if we are in face to face contact. Usually. I have made a flat angry no you’re wrong and here’s why and I am going to the other room now speech, for all the good it did.
That’s face to face rules because the only time I have to deal with them is large family gatherings. However comma every 3-6 months I get added back to their FWD to the whole world list of racist Obama jokes, outright fabrications about policy and history or religious rubbish about how the country used to be a Real Christian Nation. I outlined, in my first reply to the guilty party, what my responses will be.
1) I will look it up on the Internet. I will find the debunking, I will email them, complete with links. ONCE. If I get another I will forward them instructions on how to fact check. ONCE. If I get another I will debunk it AND hit reply all. Somehow we never get to this step.
2) Racist/sexist/all them liberals are commies who hate Jesus emails get a stock reply. “That is offensive and un-neccessary. If you would like an explanation reply to me with an apology.” ONCE. If I get another in the next 6 months they get a flat request to remove me from their email list or I will hit reply all and explain it to their entire forward list.
Then it’s radio silence for another 3-6 months.
Luckily we live in different states and I don’t have to deal with them often.
Yeah, my sister and BiL are real racists. We just don’t talk politics or anything like it around each other (which isn’t hard since we live in different states and my sis and I talk animals mostly anyway – she’s pretty active in animal welfare).
Amazing how threats to prove them wrong make them shut up huh? I hope you never have to deal with one who insists that somehow his (or her, though mine are all male relatives) sources are somehow magically right while the rest of the sources, especially those you’re citing (regardless what they are) are infected with liberal bias.
Bonus stupid if they then pull how they’re older so of course they know better.
This is why most of my family doesn’t have my email, the ones who do have learned to only send me FWDs of cute animals.
More on bigotted family members stories, fade actually compiled our stepmom’s greatest hits into a list.