Meet Sasha. Sasha is an angry young man living in England (allegedly), with a super-HAWT girlfriend (allegedly), and a lot of opinions about feminism (not-so-allegedly). The other day, he decided to share some of these opinions with the world. Or at least with any of those feminists who happened to be reading the Men’s Rights subreddit at the time.
In a topic devoted to a conference on “lad culture” in British universities, Sasha lashed out at feminists for what he sees as their hypocritical attack on boorish, sexist “lads.” Hypocritical, you see, because these very same women allegedly have sex with posh men all the bloody time:
You don’t like ‘lad culture’? My dear, I don’t give a fuck what you do and don’t like. … The hypocrisy is staggering – you’ll be dropping your knickers in a flash if a dashing Etonian invited you to the Bullingdon, but God forbid some working class fella gets a bit tipsy and sings a rugby song.
Naturally, he dismissed women’s accounts of harassment as stuff and nonsense:
You’ve been threatened with rape by fellow students ‘to loosen you up’? have you fuck, you lying toe tag. If you’re going to make shit up try to make it less fantastical why don’t you.
So in short my dear, fuck you and fuck the high horse you rode in on.
In a series of followup comments so angry that some of them were actually downvoted to zero by the Men’s Rights crowd — I know, right! — Sasha pranced about on his own high horse spewing misogynistic nonsense. First, he demanded that feminists take on the very serious gold-digging whore problem:
[A]re women inclined to be gold-digging whores? Unfortunately, there’s a good case for saying you are. I wouldn’t paint all of you with such a broad brush, but let’s put it simply: feminists – you’ve got to own this shit. There are many, many negative aspects of femininity, and you’ve got enough shit of your own to address before you start pointing fingers at anyone else.
Then he proclaimed feminists to be the equivalent of the racist English Defense League and the Klan.
You’re a bigot. You don’t understand that you’re a bigot, because like the EDL or the KKK you think that your status as a ‘persecuted group’ gives you the right to behave as vilely as possible. However be in no doubt as the depth of my utter disgust for you as a human being and for your ideology.
Oh, we be in no doubt.
You are a supporter of an ideology of hate. You are a feminist. You are, by definition, a fascistic narcissist who trades in lies, deceit and hatred. I will fight you until my dying breath and society would be better without you. That clear enough?
When a female Redditor pointed out that she herself had been catcalled on campus, he pulled out his trump card: his EX-MODEL GIRLFRIEND.
OK, well how do you explain the fact that my partner, who is an attractive 20-something American former fashion model attending a Northern English university, says that she has never, not once, ever, heard a single catcalling insult or ever felt threatened in any way whatsoever on her campus, or anywhere in the UK?
I faxed this comment of his to my fax girlfriend Kate Winslet, and she faxed back a message about what a lying loser she thought he was. Then we fax made out for a while until we ran out of toner.
Anyway, then Sasha yelled at his main critic for a bit:
You’re not a decent human being, you’re a feminist. You’re as vile and reprehensible as other bigots like the cunts in the Westborough Baptist Church, or Golden Dawn or the EDL or the KKK. Fuck you, fuck the family that raised you in such a cloud of ignorance and hatred, and fuck everything you stand for.
As for ‘helping men’, disparaging bigoted cunts like you is a key part of it.
Yes, that’s right. He called someone a “bigoted cunt,” without the slightest bit of self-awareness.
Then he took it a bit too far:
By the way, do you like cats? I know most feminists do. I like cats too. I’ll bet your cat thinks you’re a bigoted cunt as well.
Dude. Don’t EVEN go there.
NOTE: Thanks to Cloudiah and the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to Sasha’s oeuvre.
RE: auggziliary
Mochi is basically rice pounded into flour and made into little blobs with filling inside — red bean paste, stuff like that. Fresh, it is basically chewy dough. If it’s been out a while, it has a consistency like that of a rubber eraser. (I know this due to my poor high school Japanese teacher making us some for Children’s Day.) Mochi ice cream has ice cream in the center.
I wasn’t a big fan at first, but I’ve grown to like it over time. Especially since my favorite frozen yogurt place back in Boston would put fresh chunks of it in! Mmmm!
The mochi ice cream flavor I like the most so far is strawberry. One thing that kind of annoys me about mochi though is that it’s really, really sticky sometimes. X_X
LBT – here’s the pic again (curse your efficiency, Etsy).
http://i.imgur.com/SK8oGUK.jpg
Mir is right, the clothes in that shop are gorgeous. I’ve been a complete idiot and caved over this one.
http://i.imgur.com/DGDrQY9.jpg
It doesn’t help that someone was saying yes it’d suit me!
Tunic looks wonderful kittehserf. I am coveting that page full of cozy.
RE: Kittehs
Miranda thinks the second link is quite pretty, though not quite her style.
RE: Ally
My kid sister likes the green tea kind the best. But basically all the foods she likes are green.
Is this hellkell’s friend’s shop? She should be getting commission, or at least a new customer finders fee.
The second one is really pretty, but isn’t it scorchingly hot in Australia right now?
No, this is a shop in Wales I found on Etsy. Very similar styles, aren’t they? There’s so much recycled (“upcycled”, ugh) stuff on Etsy I’m lusting after. The whole site is a trap. Thank goodness most of these things aren’t big enough for me …
It’s not scorching hot in Melbourne at the moment. It’s quite cool today, about 20C. Probably going to be humid and disgusting later in the week, though. Thank goodness autumn isn’t far away, and then winter. I doubt I’ll be wearing the second one before then. But who knows, it may be cool enough in Chicago in early May to wear some of this stuff!
Even Australia can’t stay hot forever, right?
Speaking of which, my roommate does some pretty awesome fabricy stuff too. Mostly chopping up old stuff and making it into new stuff, patches, embroidery, that kind of thing. Sneak plans to turn some jeans into rainbow sparkle heartbombs with her at some point.
“Upcycled” is such a pretentious word. Fucking hipsters, etc. Being based in Wales does explain the pretty knits, though. How cold does it get in Melbourne?
Ditto about “upcycled”.
A really cold winter day in Melbourne would be about 9C, and that’s rare. It usually hovers between about 12-16 in a coldish winter and drops to maybe 4 on a cold night. Snow is very, very rare in the city; I’ve never encountered it at all. It gets colder in other parts of the state. Coldest thing that happens in town is if we get a real southerly ripping in. There’s only Tasmania between us and the Antarctic.
I just hope we do get a cold winter this year. I’ve got all this knitwear to use!
LBT – does your roommate have any pics online? That sounds gorgeous.
@casandrakitty
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I was trying to link to this:
http://jayjayne.com/2010/11/01/nekobukuro-the-“cat’s-house”/
I hope that works. It is just a link to a blog describing nekobukuro. With pictures! 😀
I long for hot weather, even if it’s humid. Here in Minneapolis it’s currently -4f with a -24f windchill. That’s -20c with -31c windchill. It’s the worst.
I want to go out without bundling up. I want to walk without fearing I will slip on the ice. I want to walk around the lake that’s nearby. I want a tan. I want to live!
I always get depressed this time of year. Winters are so long here. I won’t ever be surprised if I look out the window and see an army of White Walkers advancing.
Kitties! What a perfect place to park companions who don’t want to shop with you.
RE: Kittehs
LBT – does your roommate have any pics online? That sounds gorgeous.
Alas, she does not. She’s working on it, though, and is getting stuff sold at the local art gallery! She recently made a T-shirt dress with a paisley skirt and “Annie Get Your Gun” on the front.
RE: WWTH
Ugh, that sounds awful. I got SAD a bit in Boston, but now that I’m in Ohio, the weather seems a touch milder and the sun lasts longer, and I feel a lot better. Of course, having windows helps too.
When I arrived in Colorado, the temperature was really nice for mid February. It was in the 50s in Boulder over the past week or so, but now it has started to snow again, so the temperatures have dropped to about 30-40F. The good thing is that the snow melts extremely quickly because of the temperature, but along with the fast melting come the Chinook winds, which can reach speeds up to 80 mph here in the Colorado Front Range. (And in southern Alberta, the area where those winds are most prevalent, they can reach speeds up to 100 mph – which is in excess of hurricane force).
Kitteh: nice stuff! Secret Lentil’s working on new stuff, FYI.
Fast melting snow is so much better than disgusting grey slush that lingers for weeks.
Is Secret Lentil a reference to the whole Jezebel “eat lentils!” thing?
That’s my friend’s shop name. I’ve never asked why she named it that.
“Lentils!” was a Jezebel meme for a while, in honor of the smug assholes who always jump into any discussion about poverty and food deserts to suggest that if poor people would only learn to cook lentils all their food-related woes would be solved.
Colorado gets really terrible slush sometimes, often as a result of powerful blizzards. In 2003 there was a blizzard that affected the greater Denver Metro Area and it dropped so much snow in such a short amount of time (31.5 inches) that the traffic became hellish and the sidewalk in our cul-de-sac became full of slush. I think one time I stepped straight into a pool of slush that was about half a foot. Pretty cold, needless to say.
But I have to say that I loved making slush snowballs. It’s like being hit with a water balloon with some snow inside it.
I’d never head the lentils meme. I do remember “lesbian shit-asses.”
(Shudders)
I hate snow. It’s pretty when it first falls and all, but as soon as people start walking in it, blech.
It’s been so cold for so long here that there hasn’t been much melting. There’s patches of snow that have the same bright yellow dog pee splotch hanging around for weeks. My building allows dogs and my neighbors are good about poop scooping but there isn’t anything to be done about all the yellow snow surrounding the building.
I have a random cat question for you all. When Dracarys gets frisky and starts running around, she often lets out a fart. It stinks really badly. The stank clings for up to an hour sometimes. It’s really weird. I’m not sure how such a mighty smell could come out of an eight pound animal. I’ve never had another cat who does this. Does anybody else have a kitty who does this?