Happy Mothers’ Day! In honor of this special day let me share the sweet sentiments of the mother-loving Vox Day, who took time out of his busy schedule of woman-hating to write a post urging his readers to “Honor the Mothers” of the world. Or at least the non-feminist mothers of the “Western sub-species” of the human race.
Vox starts out his paean to motherhood by noting that women are mostly shitty and need to be constantly reminded of their shittiness by right-thinking fellows like him:
We are, quite rightly, very often hard on women here at Alpha Game. We need to be, because they spend most of their lives having smoke blown up their pretty little asses by people of both sexes and all ages who want to curry favor with them.
Oh, but even though women are terrible, don’t give in to the temptation of misogyny!
But never be tempted into misogyny by the bad behavior of one, one hundred, one thousand, or even one million women. They are the fate of the human race. They are the fate of the Western sub-species. They matter.
Take the day to honor the mothers of our sub-species. Well, some of them.
So, honor those who reject the nihilistic hedonism of feminism despite being literally inundated with its dogma from their earliest years and fulfill their primary destiny, that of motherhood. Whether she fulfills it gracefully and well or grudgingly and incompetently, she has done her duty. Respect that she has played her part in the miracle of life, honor her for doing her part in turning back the dark void of universal entropy.
It’s not nothing. It’s not a minor thing. Without women, there is no Man.
So even if you hate women, you need to remember that they serve a useful role as incubators of future men!
Happy Mother’s Day.
And a happy mother’s day to you too, you racist, misogynistic piece of poop.
Or, what if they’d just not been in the mood that particular night, and decided to play gin rummy instead?
O TEH TRAGEDY!
“What if your mom was a lesbian?”
@David – I always kinda assumed it was so the mothers could talk and comfort their kids while the photo was being taken without some horror-movie ghost mouth going on in the photos. Of course, I’m just spitballing here and I have no sources to back up my theory, so take it with a shaker of salt. Either way, it’s still weird as all getout.
As far as Vox Day and his disgusting, misogynistic, racist pomposity are concerned, as a person who would fully intends on having a kid (someday!), I want none of his disreputable respect.
Ooh, I saw a movie that played with this concept in an interesting way. Have sex with the same person at a different time and bam, different egg + different sperm = different baby.
@dustedeste
Hey, the Victorians took photos of dead people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
Of course not. Feminists love abortions too much, remember?
Lady Mondegreen,
That picture always makes me laugh whenever I see it. Though in my mom’s case, I’ve only ever seen her have a cocktail a few times. She likes wine. (I live in wine country. It works out, except when I spend the whole visit on percocet.)
I remember a couple times when my kids were babies; we were a sight back then, since there were at one point four children ages five and under. Everything we did was a friggen circus.
Anyway, most people either minded their own business or said something like, “Cute kids: hang in there Mama!” Or dole out the usual stream of unsolicited advice on whether the baby needed a hat and if I knew “what caused that.” Whatever, honestly.
but once in awhile some weird dude would sidle up and say something like “it’s nice to see there are still …women… who take pride in motherhood.” The appraising glance, the conspiratorial tone– it was like, ok, I’m not interested in joining your white power cult, mmkay? I usually just said something curt and noncommittal and kept it moving.
So I think I can say with some certainty I’d rather be hated straight out than “honored” like that!
(It’s been a few years since anyone’s done that. Could be that I’m less likely to have them all out in public by myself, since most of them are in school now; could be that we’ve moved, could be that I’m a few years older. But YES, those guys are out there. eish.)
@wordsp1nner,
It’s one of my faves, and I’ve posted it to my Facebook every year for the last few years. But I always mentally add the words, “…and the Equal Rights Amendment!”
(My mom didn’t drink either. But it’s the thought that counts! 😉 )
(Wine country–you in California? I’m in Los Angeles, but I lived for a few years in Santa Cruz county.)
RE: cassandrakitty
Have sex with the same person at a different time and bam, different egg + different sperm = different baby.
I could swear my husband had a porno comic on this subject at one point. An angel and a devil made a bet to see whether the devil could tempt a couple to birth the anti-Christ, or whether the angel would save them from the temptation.
The punchline was that the couple was indeed tempted to great sexytimes… but they were either into condoms or anal, because no anti-Christ was spawned, much to the devil’s dismay.
You’re in LA, Lady Mondegreen? Drat, missed by *that* much!
PS: for those Mammotheers who like me may not be on the best terms with their moms, I offer the following solace.
PPS: godDAMN are those Hidden Mother pictures creepy.
RE: ceebarks
Good god. You have my respect; I can’t imagine being able to wrangle so many small children.
@cassandrakitty
Different egg OR different sperm would make for (different genetics =) a different individual. Hell, the odds of any one of us being born are pretty astronomical. On the other hand, it’s pretty obvious that we’re cosmic accidents, and not the special snowflakes anti-abortion zealots want to pretend we are.
It’s wonderful and humbling at the same time.
kittehserf, you were in the L.A. recently? Dayum! Next time, tell a person!! <3
I know it’s just because they’re both examples of Victorian photography, but the hidden mother pics remind me of the pics of dead people from The Others, which isn’t really conjuring up the awww cute baby emotions the photographers probably intended.
My mother became pregnant between my brother and I. Had she not aborted that pregnancy, my brother would never have been conceived. So basically anti-abortion freaks are saying my brother shouldn’t exist. Fuck that shit.
How come only left kid in the right photo gets sweet gloves?
@cassandrakitty
I LOVE that movie. I’m a huge fan of Alejandro Amenabar–I like the way he’s used horror and sci-fi tropes to explore character. And he has a real feminist sensibility, I think.
(I’d heard of Victorian post-mortem photography before I saw The Others, from the sad, weird and wonderful book Wisconsin Death Trip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Death_Trip)
The entire species could reproduce without the help of any man or even technological advancement. An AMAB trans woman and and a cis woman, for instance, are capable of reproduction.
@ Lady Mondegreen
I love him too! He also does a great job working with actors. Everyone was good in that movie, and it’s probably the most convincing I’ve ever seen Nicole Kidman be.
Is it definite that the person is the mother? It could be the nanny or another servant who they didn’t want in the photo.
I remember that one! It was an issue of Xxxenophile, by Phil Foglio. The thing was that the angel tricked the devil. He taunted the devil about how un-depraved the Antichrist’s parents-to-be were (and how wimpy the resulting antichrist was likely to be as a result), so the demon pushed them into getting a little bit more kinky (he was pressed for time, so anal was the best he could think of), and didn’t realize until the proper planetary conjunction had passed that no sperm had gone where it needed to go.
The Forces of Good use the power of non-procreative sex to save the universe!
@LBT: it wasn’t always pretty but I’d do it all again. If I HAD to. lol
Not game for another round of pregnancy, delivery, infancy or toddlerhood though.
I’m guessing they hid the mom ’cause she was likely talking the kid through it and if her face was uncovered it would come out looking terrible. Maybe they framed them so it was less noticeable later, or people just understood that Mom was not meant to be actually part of the picture so it didn’t seem as weird to them?
Heck, I’ve hidden right out of range of a studio photographer’s shot making comforting noises and been cropped out later, and that’s with super-fast, mobile modern cameras!
Oh crap! Before fulfilling my primary destiny of motherhood, I forgot to reject the nihilistic hedonism of feminism despite being literally inundated with its dogma from my earliest years!
…I think I skipped over that chapter in What To Expect When You’re Expecting. That and the chapter on “Parsing Vox Day’s Awkward Sentences”.
Why didn’t anyone tell me there was a nihilistic hedonistic branch of feminism? Had I known that was an option, I would not have spent so much time in the boring responsible “going to work, going to church, hosting family events” branch.
No, who am I kidding. I’d still be boring and responsible.