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Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, the neverending struggle against imaginary feminists continues apace. Today, one brand-new Redditor, a self-described former feminist, won himself several dozen upvotes from the regulars by bringing them a literally unbelievable tale of his adventures with a coven of slap-happy feminists.
I stopped calling myself a feminist a few years ago when I went to a meeting and was told “men are inly allowed in this safe space if they participate in a slap circle.”
The idea was that it would be harder for me to intimidate with my six foot stature if all the women had a chance to slap me in the face. I left.
Another guy actually did it.
It’s all true. I WAS THAT GUY.
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?
Actually, no. If this dude’s story is true, I will literally eat my cats.
While most of the Men’s Rightsers commenting in the thread seem to have swallowed this story whole, “slap circles” aren’t actually a thing in feminism.
They are a thing, though, amongst bored and/or drunk young men (and sometimes women) around the world, as countless videos on YouTube can attest.
As as site called Hungry Teen explains, a “Slap Circle” is
A great way to bond with friends, release aggression and stimulate the face. The Slap Circle is a game made for the more hardcore, daring person and can be used as a test for finding the manliest of the group. Although adopting female fighting techniques, the slap circle appeals far more to men. Nothing is required for this game, other than a hand, a face and a set of balls.
All you do, is stand in a circle and slap the person to your right in the face, while waiting for a slap from the person on your left. If you’ve had enough, you step out of the circle and the last two standing fight it out for the winner.
I eagerly await stories in the Men’s Rights subreddit detailing Andrea Dworkin’s demand that all men and boys be forced to take the Cinnamon Challenge and all those insidious mandatory nut shot seminars being forced upon all college students unfortunate enough to be born with a pair of balls.
Thanks to Cloudiah for the heads up, and the good people of the AgainstMensRights subreddit for the Hungry Teen quote.
That’s awful, Ally.
That triggered a memory from years ago. A friend of mine went to her gyno for her yearly papa and pill Rx. She had a zit on her labia. He told her it was herpes and that she had to stop having sex. She sobbed. She told her boyfriend and he assured her that the doctor was wrong and got her to go to a different doctor. Sure enough, he had just made it up to scare and punish her for being a sexually active young woman.
Asshole are everywhere.
*pap*
Such typo! Very incorrect!
Stevie you were really kind to me on the other thread and I know as fellow Brit that the idea of home-schooling can seem very weird, but please stop and apologise properly?
Like you’re at the bottom of a hole and you’re digging frantically and it really isn’t helping anyone? Just call it a day, please.
I had a doctor tell me that my yeast infection was herpes after I told him I was sexually active. He made this diagnosis before examining me. Post-examination he was like, “Oh, that’s a yeast infection.”
bunnybunny,
Wow. I wonder how common that sort of thing actually is?
In college I went in for a throat culture and the doctor asked me about a thousand times if I might be pregnant. Because apparently sore throat and fever and the main symptoms of pregnancy.
Doctors can be such assholes.
#NotAllDoctors
IDK, I bet if you really wanted to be a doctor, you could learn what the EVILutionists say happened and repeat it on your tests. I agree that I can’t see why anyone would, but common sense and assumptions aren’t evidence.
Now, are you going to apologize for telling Marie to go die, or?
Yeah, bias is as much a problem for doctors as for anyone else. Like that study where, given the same set of stomach and chest pains, they found that doctors will send men for an angiogram and women home with antacids. Or the fact that black children are more likely to be diagnosed with developmental and behavioral disorders. Or the aforementioned tendency to flat-out refuse care to trans people (or gay people, because “ew they have AIDS”).
Not to mention states like Texas, where they are required by law to teach that evolution is “only a theory” and to give equal time to the Christian creation theory.
I’ve had doctors got straight for a pregnancy test when I presented with everything from back pain to shortness of breath. Evidently it’s the only thing that could ever make a FAAB person sick.
So, a fetus deserves to survive more if it masturbates than when it doesn’t? As usual with anti-choice people, it’s a shame they don’t apply the same logic to people who’re already born.
Also, why is Stevie still digging?
Can’t have too many male (or AMAB, at least) wankers around, after all.
Yeah, I get asking about pregnancy before x-rays, or when the symptoms could be pregnancy (e.g. late period and bouts of morning vomiting?) but a sore throat? Hm, sounds like a cold maybe? Or strep, never had it so idk. Not pregnancy though!
Hospital story, squick factor = AFAB version of kicked in the balls:
My pharm student worked in a hospital for awhile, patient’s Dx was vaginal MRSA, ze suggests more hardcore antibiotics, gets shot down by the powers that be (aka those oh so wise “real” medical professionals, not those pesky pharmacists)…patient ended up being airlifted to a bigger hospital because the “smart” people weren’t. Idk what happened to her after that, but listening to those pesky interns would’ve been a good idea. But they haven’t been to the almighty medical school!
MSRA in someone’s vagina? OK, just going to go curl up in a protective little ball for a while now.
I am never going to Google how someone gets MRSA vaginally.
…I’m not going to google what MRSA is.
I always thought that in addition to safe search, Google should have an “inadvisable search” setting. So if you google something like “open fracture” or “scabies,” it’ll tell you “FYI, these results are going to be totally disgusting. Are you sure you want to see them?”
DON’T GOOGLE MRSA OMG I JUST DID IT AND IT WAS A HUGE MISTAKE THIS CAPITAL LETTERS ARE MEANT TO STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT REPEATING MY MISTAKE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST X___________X
Without going into any graphic details, it’s an antibiotic resistant staph infection. It’s commonly caught in hospitals and people with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable.
Maybe Google could add an “Are you sure?” step that you have to click before viewing your results, especially for image searches.
Stevie: Medical schools here in England, unsurprisingly, don’t want students who think that evolution doesn’t exist. The only person responsible for a child being unable to pass A level biology is the person who home schooled that child to believe that evolution doesn’t exist. The medical schools are behaving entirely reasonably in this situation.
Non-responsive.
1: your characterisation of HS is narrow-minded, and discounts the variety of experience being discussed.
2: you have restricted your complaint to make it so that you can pretend there is some valid external reason to say home schooling is bad.
3: even if it were so that all home schooled persons are so schooled because of the subject of biology being offensive to their religious practice it says bupkis about any other aspect of the schooling, or the intelligence of the students.
All it does is say the are not educated in biology.
I am never going to Google how someone gets MRSA vaginally.
Since Wiki mentions bladder or urinary tract infections for women, or things like swimming off some beaches off the USA west coast or Florida where it’s prevalent, I suspect it’d be all too easy.
… Okay, so the Blockquote Mammoth’s latest trick is going on strike. Pernickety critter!
Even the blockquote mammoth can’t deal with all our tedious trolls.
Good point. Can’t blame it, at that.
If this is the thread where people are suggesting what to get for the angry feminist dive bar, I’m voting no on vaginal MRSAs.
Seconded, brooked!