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#LiesToldByFemales is the misogynistic cesspool you might expect. Plus giant lizards, and JC Penney

Lying female
Lying female

So Twitter is a bit depressing today. One of the trending hashtags at the moment is #LiesToldByFemales and, yes, it’s the misogynistic cesspool that you might expect, a vast assortment of not-very-original stereotypes about women — sorry, females — and their allegedly lying ways. The female-bashing tweeters — some of them female themselves — aren’t even terribly original in their complaints, and most of the tweets seem to be reworkings on a few very basic themes.

We have the good-old fashioned trope of the female-as-narcissist, forever obsessed with how she looks — and given to lying about how much work she puts into her appearance.

https://twitter.com/xstepheezyx/status/441301976781815808

Then, of course, there are the cheating “females.”

https://twitter.com/j4keh4rris/status/441295523610255360

https://twitter.com/ATLREPPA/status/441302902964224000

And the evil, evil females who tell people they’re “fine” when they’re really not so fine at all:

https://twitter.com/steveo396/status/441327634375376896

But most of the Tweets — or at least the most virulent ones — seem to be devoted to not-so-good old-fashioned slut-shaming. A favorite target: the slut pretending not to be s slut:

https://twitter.com/jbdangles/status/441311430319804416

https://twitter.com/jaleenelia/status/441304024969539584

https://twitter.com/Codehhhhh/status/441316300350947328

The strangest variation on this theme is the following:

This particular meme is, for some strange reason, quite popular; versions of it have been Tweeted dozens of times by dozens of different people since the hashtag started up yesterday.

It’s a strangely revealing complaint. There are only two scenarios in which I can imagine a man getting angry about this statement from a “female.” Either he’s angry at a woman who didn’t give him a blowjob (even though she’s allegedly given blowjobs to other men), 0r he’s angry at a woman who did give him a blowjob (even though she said she didn’t do that). Really?

In the first instance, he’s essentially announcing to the world that he’s an asshole who’s jealous that women are having sex with men other than him; in the second he’s basically showing himself to be an ungrateful asshole who never deserves to get a blowjob ever again. Either way, dude, you’re not the one who looks good here.

The one heartening sign in all this: a few intrepid souls have ventured into the swamp to subvert this noxious old meme.

https://twitter.com/nymphofthewoods/status/441304073094983680

Give it a shot yourself — I have. At least if you can stand being in some pretty repulsive company.

NOTE TO LARGE CORPORATIONS: I wouldn’t recommend jumping into this particular hashtag if I were you. Might not look so good alongside some of the other Tweets. I’m looking at you, JC Penney.

Ooh, that’s original.

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Kim
Kim
10 years ago

Aaaand I should probably stop before I add too much ridiculousness through made up hashtags.

#LiesToldByContrapangloss

wewereemergencies
wewereemergencies
10 years ago

Also thank you kittehs for the advice on the other thread. Unfortunately I don’t have Firefox, so the Blockquote Monster will probably eat me eventually.

kittehserf
10 years ago

Oh noes! A sacrifice in waiting.

“Of course I’ll use the comfy bed you’re making for me”

“Of course I’ll settle down once I’ve pestered you into providing a lap”

“Of course I’ll eat the food I’ve been yowling for for the last half hour”

#LiesToldByFelines

wewereemergencies
wewereemergencies
10 years ago

My budgies’ only lie is “I meant to do that.” They’re very amusing, but not very good at lying.

kittehserf
10 years ago

I think “I meant to do that” is a widespread lie among critters (humans included). Kitties rely on it a lot. 😀

Niters all!

titianblue
titianblue
10 years ago

I am totally absorbed in my work and would never use the internet for personal reasons within working hour. #liestoldbyeveryone

crazyladyblues
crazyladyblues
10 years ago

No, I haven’t been sleeping on the sofa ALL afternoon!
#liestoldbymydog

Woodie! Is that a doggie?
#liessometimestoldbymetomydog

Buttercup Q. Skullpants
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
10 years ago

You assistance is requested as a non-Nigerian citizen to assist Prince Alyudi Ekbar, and also the Central Bank of Nigeria, in moving these funds out of Nigeria. #LiesToldByEmails

titianblue
titianblue
10 years ago

http://bbc.in/1kAjl77 – “I ‘ve given up smoking” #liestoldbybirds

zippydoo
zippydoo
10 years ago

I’m 10 inches
#LiesToldByCaterpillars

I just want to put the tip in
#LiesToldByFelinesWithToysNearGapsUnderHeavyFurniture

It’ll be quick
#LiesToldByWindowsUpdater

Everybody’s doing it
#LiesToldAboutZumba

I just want to snuggle
#LiesToldByBoaConstrictors

I just want to look at it
#LiesToldByArtThieves

My bed is extremely comfortable
#LiesToldByBedBugs

I’ll give you hours of pleasure and fun
#LiesToldByBadVideoGames

I’m not looking for sex
#LiesToldByBonobos

I’m really rich
#LiesToldByCheapChocolateCandyBars

It won’t hurt
#LiesToldByHallwayCornersInTheDark

seraph4377
10 years ago

Pasties? Okay this is a different definition game, ‘cos I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean Cornish pasties.

Where are you writing from again?

Anyway, there are places in the U.S. where female toplessness is illegal (not where I am, proud to say), so exotic dancers wear little stickers over their nipples so they’re technically in compliance. Make them out of metal, and you’ve got what passes for armor for a lot of female video game characters.

Ally S
10 years ago

@kitteh

See: nipple pasties armor

vaiyt
10 years ago

[For the non-players: A Chryssalid is an enemy in the video game that is fast, tough, strong, and turns your loyal soldiers into shambling zombies that, when killed, sprout more Chryssalids. Take off, nuke site from orbit, only way to be sure.]

You forgot that it starts out INVISIBLE. So you don’t know your mission is going to shit until it’s their turn to move and you hear the metallic clacks from their steps… brr.

contrapangloss
10 years ago

Galumphing Frisbees, Kim!

Now I really, really want to make the hashtag a truthful one, but… Did it mean I’ve already added too much ridiculousness, and thus have already lied? Or does it mean that I need to make another one up?

Better safe than sorry, I suppose:

“This is just a beautifully contrasting flower, little bee! I’m not actually trying to ambush you by exploiting your love of contrast!”

#LiesToldByCrabSpiders

“I’d never bite the living day-lights out of your arm for rubbing my belly one stroke more than I demanded. I’m a NICE cat.”

#LiesToldByFelines

“Nobody here but us ants!”

#LiesToldByJumpingSpiders

There! Happy now?

🙂

kittehserf
10 years ago

Ally, seranvali – ah, that’s what they are. I’m in Australia and I’ve no idea whether those things are used here, not knowing anything about what exotic dancers can or can’t do. Women aren’t allowed topless outdoors here, either (apart from some beaches, I think) but I’d be very surprised if dancers have to wear those things.

seraph4377
10 years ago

I’m in Australia and…Women aren’t allowed topless outdoors here, either (apart from some beaches, I think)

Yeah, here in NYC (and maybe in New York State as a whole, I’m not sure) women have the same right to go around topless in public as men, but the only time I’ve seen anyone actually do so is at the Mermaid Parade, the Mardi Gras-like celebration that marks the official beginning of the season at Coney Island.

seraph4377
10 years ago

And maybe the Naked Cowgirl in Times Square.

katz
10 years ago

“There definitely aren’t 100 of us hiding in your bucket of tiles waiting for you to empty it out.” #LiesToldByCrickets

cloudiah
10 years ago

“I didn’t lay my eggs in the lining around the sunroof of your car, so that my many children could descend on you when you opened it on a lovely spring day while driving on a winding mountain road.” #LiesToldByFemaleSpidersTocloudiahWhenSheWasYounger

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

“It’s OK, that thing with the spiders will never happen again”

#liestoldbyme

katz
10 years ago

“I’m not going AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH just imagining that.” #LiesToldByMe

leftwingfox
10 years ago

You forgot that it starts out INVISIBLE. So you don’t know your mission is going to shit until it’s their turn to move and you hear the metallic clacks from their steps… brr.

I’ll be honest, I never got to play the original XCOM much (Mac household, PC game), but it does sound like the Chrysalids got significantly nerfed. (i.e. the chrysalids spawn out of the zombies after 3 turns, rather than on death, aren’t invisible, kinda dumb about dashing)

Still, this run did have the joy of spawning two Chrysalid packs at the very end of the Alien base. Pure luck that I survived it.

leftwingfox
10 years ago

*bursts open, spawning a new blockquote monster*

Jessay (@jessay)
10 years ago

I haven’t listened yet, but this podcast was posted to facebook today, and I’m hesitant to even click play because it’s glaring bias is right there in the header image. It’s a “libertarian” discussion of whether or not men should have to pay child support. Might be worth an article here if it’s gross enough.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/men-exempt-paying-child-support-podcast/#axzz2vCAQxMbT

I’ll tell you the first comment I saw was a pathetic “thought experiment”

Here is a thought experiment, a litmus test for the views of society… A woman is pro-life and decides to have a child that she cannot afford. She is well aware she cannot afford the child and decides that adoption would be best. At this point the child’s father steps in and says that he will take custody of the child. She should then be required to pay child support to him even though it was for financial reasons that she was putting the child up for adoption in the first place…. I have found that when the shoe is on the other foot and women are made to be financially responsible people react in disbelief and assume that it is wrong to make the woman do that. ALL of this, every last part of it is based on the idea that men are always the initiators to the act of sex. “he talked her in to it” “pay to play”… the women’s liberty movement fails to promote true equality in this case and still let’s society pin this on men.

Proving once again that anti-child support advocates have NO IDEA what it actually costs to raise a child, and that child support almost always puts women at a deficit, not a surplus.