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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.
Lea
If you want to extrapolate from my very specific words to kittehserf about his personal experiences then you are free to do so; he himself noted that they didn’t seem to be sure about what was on the pieces of paper they were handing out.
What you are not free to do is to keep on looking for a fight with no come back. I extended the benefit of the doubt to you, just in case you had genuinely misunderstood my comment to kittehserf.
It is now clear that you are just looking for a fight, and this has nothing to do with your kids. You just want to use them as an excuse, and I don’t engange with people who use their kids as an excuse for getting into fights.
There’s also the fact that someone can be educated in a way that’s designed to narrow their perspective and isolate them from mainstream culture and still be able to read just fine. Illiteracy is mostly a class/poverty linked issue, which makes going all “LOL homeschooled kids can’t read” in rather poor taste.
Stevie. Knock it off and either apologize properly or shut the fuck up. Someone calling you out for saying something they found offensive is not looking for a fight and you are breaking the first rule of holes.
Yeah, unless Australia has had a sudden influx of Pennsylvia Dutch Amish folks, most religious people can read their religious texts, at bare minimum (and Cassandra’s right about literacy in general. I make that Amish caveat solely because in at least some groups reading the bible in English isn’t allowed, and most of them can’t read the German version that is allowed, so yeah…can’t say all religious people can read their religious texts when I know some Amish people can’t (general literacy aside).
I’m babbling, I blame vodka.
As for fish slapping, my fish would like to take this opportunity to remind you that using them to slap people is Unacceptable Behavior. And please don’t make puffer fish puff, if they swallow air in the process it can be fatal. /fish advisement
BTW, Stevie, Kitteh IDs as a woman. So maybe lay off the reading comprehension of others?
Ninja’d by Katz on the first rule of holes.
*dons stats hat* literacy rate down under is 96%
@LBT
aww, but I always think genital-jazzle sounds like fun 😛
@Lea
^ditto. And seeing as how the public schools I went to had to teach abstinence only, but not medically accurate sex ed, so public schools also have big issues.
@stevie
Um, yeah, Lea thinking you insulted her kids is totally looking for a fight? Wtf Stevie?
LBT, I didn’t want to put words into his mouth, but as soon as cock scrunchies came up, I immediately thought “Mac would totally go for that.”
How does one gential jazzle? Double-sided tape?
Kittehserf
I’m sorry for my discourtesy; that very dashing avatar of yours misled me!
The most recent research I have read on literacy is that it is heading down the chutes in the USA; unfortunately mathematics crashed and burned rather before that time. Of course, in England the reading age of people buying the tabloids is around nine years old, if you are feeling generous you could call that literacy.
Sadly, a reading age of nine is not going to admit anyone to higher education, just as incomprehension of imathematics isn’t either; you really need to be able to do a bit more than add 2 and 2. At some point you are going to have to grapple with prime numbers.
Top level Universities will continue to be filled with people who have been properly educated, which brings us back to homeschooling again; would anybody give me the stats on the number of homeschooled children who get into something as competitive as medical school? No, I didn’t think they would.
I have a strong aversion to people who are prepared to destroy their own children’s ability to do whatever they want to do in the world because of their parents’ beliefs; the only thing that holds me to my daughter is love, all the rest is for her to choose. I am profoundly lucky that my conviction that ‘Love Liberates’, as Maya Angelou put it, is true.
Oh. My. Gracious. NSFW http://www.qbn.com/topics/441052/3214517/
@stevie
ahhaha homeschooled kid telling you to go fuck yourself.
@Unimaginative
o___________________O
and how the fuck is competitive medical school any kind of meassure of human worth? I hate that ‘lol your kids aren’t smart’ is actually being used as a fucking argument.
@unimaginative
that actually looks painful O_o
It is true, in Canada anyway, that many universities won’t accept home-schooled students. But there are some that do, and a lot of homeschooling parents send their kids to public or private high schools for that very reason. IF they have that option. It’s a big country, and not all communities have schools within commuting distance.
But you’re coming across as REALLY condescending, Stevie. Again, home-schooled is not the same thing as un-schooled, uneducated, or illiterate. You need to step back.
Almost heavily decorated enough to be SFW, actually.
Stevie, please understand that we homeschooled kids are a diverse group. In fact, I’m one of those unschooled kids. I had no formal education at all until college, and yet I still got into university. My grades have been poor lately, but that has nothing to do with me being unschooled and everything to with depression. And I’m certainly not illiterate, either.
re: universities
IDK if a like “big” university would accept me as a homeschooled (for high school) kid. I took the GED and got into community college. it’s working fine for me. And IIRC, some people on manboobz encouraged me to get in/helped me anticipate the difficulty level (thanks ally and seventh guest if seventh guest is still reading!)
Oh dear.
I took Stevie’s home schooling comment to mean religious fundies, and in the context of my own snark about the pushy characters at my door.
Obviously it was a joke with splash damage, so I’m sorry it all happened (yeah, I didn’t make the joke, but sorry anyway).
Stevie, that said, do stop digging, please? It just doesn’t work here, and I for one don’t want to see you or Lea leaving this site. ::makes sad puppy eyes::
… Trains! I like trains too. I took a trip to York last time I was in the UK, to visit the Railway Museum. Loved it. So did Miss Dinah.
@Fade
If your grades are good and you do the tests they ask for, get good score tests, etc., I am certain that you’ll have a decent shot of getting in. You might want to consider getting letters of recommendations from faculty, etc. though since some colleges ask for such documents. I know MIT requires that for homeschooled applicants (which isn’t to say that you do care or should care about MIT – I’m just providing an example).
BTW, Lea, just so you know, the majority of us don’t believe that homeschooling your kids means you don’t love them.
(FFS. I’m trying to stay out of this, but really, come on now.)
No prob! That’s Mr K. 🙂
@ally
atm, if i want to go to a four year school, i plan on transferring. I’ll keep the asking for faculty recommendations in mind. 😛 I also might wind up studying for/taking SAT, b/c when i was researching the big scary colleges lots of them wanted SAT scores
I’m sorry, I can’t hear anything over the sound of Stevie’s smugness.