Note to clueless misogynistic dating coaches: Vogue magazine does not run handjob how-to's as cover stories

Works for me!

You know, you’d think that it would be easy to find some sort of bra-typed lighting fixture, but this is all I could come up with http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nt72DAU6L._SX342_.jpg

On the other hand, we could put up pairs of these on the walls http://somethingisdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/boob-lamps1.jpg

Can the sign at the entrance say this?

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu the WHTM wgah’nagl fhtagn.

Translation: In his house at the We Hunted The Mammoth dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

I’m picturing the WHTM dead as banned and flounced trolls.

So they’re all zombies, then.

Ronnie’s WHTM posts are still there, aren’t they? I mean, we can easily check to see whether he really did stun everyone into submission with his rapier wit…

I think Ronnie’s use of wit should described more like blunt force trauma.

It’s still stunning, I guess…

There has to be room for Evil Hello Kitty somewhere, too.

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2004-12-21

I will bring the rhubarb syrup for rhubarb martinis. Harvesting my own this weekend.

Rhubarb that is.

I know how to harvest cat hair, but I doubt anyone would want that in their drink.

I love cats and all, but cat hair martinis is where I draw the line.

I will bring homemade kvas to the bar. Possibly suitable for those underage, depending on what country you’re in.

I left a rather lengthy comment on his post (admittedly probably longer than his own blog, I’ll post it at the end of this for you to be the judge of that), trying to keep courteous and professional about it, because, for all of the brash presentation, there were some good discussion points.

As for the comments on this blog, thanks for the laughs ^^

What I posted over there:

Thank you for your point of view. As a tool to improve confidence when approaching the opposite sex, and alleviating nervousness in someone, I do agree that PUA techniques can have a place.

Conversely, having been on the receiving side of some PUAs, I can also understand how they can be seen as creepy, and induce a panicky feeling in the receiving individual. One memorable incident for myself happened as I was walking home from the grocery store, pushing my infant son and groceries ahead of me in the stroller. A physically fit and well built black male (taller than I) approached me and, noticing my wedding ring, asked if I was happily married. I replied yes. His response~as he’s following behind me (granted at a distance, maybe 10 feet?) and I’m about to turn into my apartment complex~was “Really? Like fully loyal and stuff?”. I happily, if tersely, informed him “Yes, we’ve been together nearly a decade.” as my husband and I had been dating nine years before our wedding and this was shortly after. To his credit, the guy didn’t pursue me into my apartment complex and just went “Oh!”, but I felt intimidated enough to mentally run through all of my martial arts training, trying to anticipate how an attack could possibly play out and what my odds were of getting out of an attack well enough to sprint my son and I to safety. So there is a time and place for it. PickUps on the street are scary and creepy, especially if you two are the only individuals on the street. Women are programmed to be aware of the possibility of rape, and all of the missing persons or rape stories on television only serve to heighten this awareness and programming. PickUps at a bar are to be expected, and while we won’t immediately trust any drink that passes through your hands, we’re more open/forgiving of PickUps in an expected time and place. We may even laugh it off and thank you for the compliment, even if we’re already taken. I know I did at my sister’s Bachelorette Party, at least.

The PUA technique of “negging”, as I understand it however, seems detrimental to any relationship that the PUA is trying to start , so I personally would advice against using it, if only because you’ll come across as an insensitive prick and will more than likely get a slap faster than a thank you. No one likes being made to feel inferior to anyone else, regardless of sex and gender.

As far as your comment disbelieving that we do the make-up for ourselves, it really differs from person to person, situation to situation, similar to how I imagine guys wear a suit and tie. Some women do wear make-up to impress men, just as some men’s only reason to buy a suit is purely to impress women (because let’s face it, well dressed=sexy). Most of us only learned to do make-up after getting rejected for jobs that saw our lack of make-up as laziness and a lack of self-respect, similar to how some employers won’t hire a man who comes to an interview in jeans and a t-shirt (or an ill-fitting suit with an improperly tied tie). Some women use makeup as an emotional pick me up, a way to boost confidence and energy on a trying day (great for those days you look like death walking and need to come across as wide-awake, or days where you need to be commanding and in control like when you’re dealing with a used car sales associate getting paid solely on commission who thinks that you don’t know anything about cars and therefore they can jack up the prices on you, or days when you’re horribly depressed but are hosting a house party and therefore need to be cheerful); like wearing a suit makes you stand noticeably taller with better posture (especially when you catch sight of yourself in a mirror and you can’t help thinking “damn, I look good!”), good makeup and a fashionable outfit can make a day better. Fashion and makeup tips are just as important to us as GQ’s tips on how to make a fancy knot in a tie and which suit to wear them with is to men. And of course, there really are just people who wear makeup and suits for themselves and screw the rest of you for saying they’re over-dressed. For example, after growing up with cleavage no matter what shirt or bra I did or didn’t put on, suddenly not having any cleavage (despite being two cups sizes bigger) after breast feeding my son just feels weird, so I wear a push up bra to give the girls back their pre-pregnancy fullness (or at least the appearance of it, which is enough on most days).

Concerning the emphasis of being sexy, both out of the sheets and in, in many magazines, I guess it’s so prevalent in women magazines for the same reason having a flat belly and a good sense of style is plastered all over men’s magazines. It’s expected of us. Think about it. Anything that says we are anything but sexy is the worst insult you can throw at a woman, but we’re simultaneously told we can’t be TOO sexy for our own safety. How do you determine where that line is?? Getting married and having kids is supposedly the greatest achievement a woman could ever hope to accomplish (and the only way into heaven according to the Mormons) so you should know how to get it. Just as all the men’s magazines tell you how to be successful in business and become a wealthy CEO~supposedly your greatest life achievement. Men don’t really get magazines that really emphasize marriage and kids, and women’s magazines that place emphasize on business achievements aren’t as prominently displayed as the ones on sex, home life, cooking, weddings and gossip. Maybe some day we’ll all be reading the same magazine because we’ll all be expected to have an equal opportunity to choose whether marriage or business are our greatest life accomplishments, and sexy will be easily defined but not expected of either of us.

As for the idea that women makes the rules… Yes and no. Sure, we hold the power as to whether or not we will say yes to that round of sex that you want, but society puts great pressure on us to say yes to sex (for the aforementioned preconceived notion as to what a woman’s greatest achievement in life is) and sometimes we will say yes because you are physically capable of picking us up and taking us with you anyways (imagine the hottest woman you know of, and imagine that she is a foot taller than you and is able to visually trap you with her body from the rest of the room, and you just know she probably has the muscle strength to pick you up and carry you with her like a purse if she really wanted to press the issue, and you get to the point of intimidation we deal with normally). If we REALLY like you, and think you may be our ticket to our greatest life achievements (as outlined above) it’s nearly impossible to say no, especially after a passionate kiss that makes our normally chatty brains shut up (a quiet brain is addictive when you’re a woman). That being said, male politicians still call most of the shots on the legal repercussions for us, all the way from birth control, through rape, abortion, sex, health care and how harsh consequences should be taken (or what is acceptable to be overlooked) when we break the laws, and not all lawmakers have been fairly equal in that regard.