Men’s Rights Redditor: “Going to a strip club as a guy must be like going to a regular nightclub as a girl!”

RE: David

Why are those guys out riding bikes in 120 degree weather?

Enh, if my family did it in Texas in 110 degree weather, it seems plausible enough for me. Exercise won’t do itself. (Note that I didn’t realize heat stroke was actually a thing for serious concern until I moved up north. My blood probably would’ve floated on oil, it was so thin.)

RE: hookerwithaheartofmuscle

Love your screename. And ewwww, what is it with assholes who refuse to use condoms? Are they just so insulated that they seriously think they’re impervious to STDs or something? That nothing could possibly happen? I just don’t understand how adults can live with that attitude.

They think a society where a man without a woman has to masturbate and a woman without a man has to starve or be murdered is fair!???

“The government MASSIVELY subsidizes women, especially single mothers.”

We have a welfare system that threatens loss of benefits if recipients can’t find a job fast enough, that takes away (or heavily reduces) benefits if recipients earn too much (basically any pay slightly better than your average low-wage job), and in which caseworkers are fine with dumping recipients into any low-wage job they can find regardless of whether it has any chance of raising the recipient out of poverty (or just harassing and penalizing the recipients until they take themselves off the welfare case-rolls). This is in addition to having varyingly low standards of what constitutes adequate or safe childcare for facilities that accept vouchers, meaning that single mothers on welfare have no way to guarantee the safety or proper development of their children while they work to keep their benefits. Let’s not also forget that single mothers are huge targets for stigma, much of which comes from their own places of employment. Women in America are essentially penalized for having children while not being married, and this asshole has the audacity act like being a single mother is a trouble-free meal ticket? Like it’s a privilege? Get fucked.

Oh, and married couples are also subsidized, or did you conveniently forget that, you trash golem?

A male friend did give me a lapdance at a bar once, but he was drunk and we worked together.

@scott1139

dlouwe said: “It always disappoints me a bit when I see terms like “stupid” or “idiot” or “moron” used on this blog as insults. If, for instance, “r**ard” is not allowed, why allow synonyms of it?”

I didn’t think anyone perceived those words as slurs. I imagine “dumbass” or “asshat” would work fine in place of them, though.

Eh. I’ve seen people object to them before :/ Don’t see the problem with replacing them. I have a link on ‘idiot’ here though I’ll just try quote some of the article.

This is another word which is commonly used to denote low intelligence, and it’s also a word which many people are unaware is ableist in nature. […]

In the 1800s, “idiot” acquired a new nuance, as it started to be used as a diagnostic term in reference to people with severe developmental delays. An “idiot” medically speaking was someone with a “mental age level” of less than three years, or an IQ under 30. It was, quite literally, a diagnosis of mental inferiority, as decided by the medical community. I would like to point out, for the record, that people with this diagnosis were subjected to indignities like institutionalization and forcible sterilization, with no less a figure than Oliver Wendell Holmes once saying “three generations of idiots is enough” when defending the forcible sterilization of Carrie Buck in Buck v. Bell in 1927.

And before you leap to say “well, that’s old,” I would like to point out that the word “idiot” was used in a diagnostic and medical context in my home state of California as recently as 2007, when the penal code was finally amended to remove this word from the law books. This illustrates that “idiot” had a dual and widely accepted usage through the 19th and much of the 20th century; laypeople used it to refer to anyone they believed was lacking intelligence, while members of the medical community used it as a diagnostic term.

[…]Many of the ableist words which reference “inferior intelligence” are actually used in settings when people want to say that someone is being thoughtless, reckless, irresponsible, or rude. So, those are all good words to use as alternatives to “idiot.” One of the things about exploring ableist language is that it forces us to think about the actual meaning of a sentence; when you find yourself wanting to refer to someone as an “idiot” or something as “idiotic,” pause and think about the meaning of what you are trying to say.

Aaannnddd I think I quoted more of that than I meant to… :/

@hellkell

I have no idea who you’re talking about…

@hellkell

“knee-jerk tumbr style activism”? What. The. Everloving. Fuck?

And I know it’s not the most reliable source, but even a quick check on the frickin wikipedia page seems to agree.

I mean words do change over time, everyone’s mileage may vary, but this nit-pickery drives me up the wall.

Ditto, hellkell, but I’ve yet to see that consensus.

This is pushing my “gods don’t let us turn into Feministe where idiot gets redacted as an ableist slur” buttons, I admit, but that’s me. It’d be an irritant but not a hill to die on.

*shrug*

whenever I see non-disabled people talking about what’s being an ableist slur, I get kind of uncomfortable feeling. Tho I have said before, that it’d also be weird for me to argue it b/c it doesn’t really affect me either, and if there is a manboobzer who it affects (i.e. someone who it’s used against), then their opinion should probably matter more

On the other hand, we are probably never going to come to a consensus just b/c people are different.

@kittehs

Yeah, but the problem isn’t actually people being stupid, it’s them being willfully ignorant, or hateful jerks, or whatever. It doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence.

And…idk I feel weird on this, since it doesn’t affect me. But I have seen people who it does affect say they don’t like it, and I don’t see the reason to keep using it if it’s hurtful to them.

@hellkell

though I really want to know why you think people are saying “this word is bad, so that one must be too” without any/ much behind it. I mean, idk, just where are you getting that it’s just a reaction, if that makes sense?