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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.
@Marie, nope! Just proving that, drugged and tired or not, you are awesome.
Marie:
And also, adding, that your intelligence and talent shouldn’t affect your worth as a human being.
Absolutely! 🙂
And now I want to cuddle a porcupine, but I don’t think that would be a very good idea.
So I’m off to bed. Good night, all.
Hvrotonir
This is England at 6.32 am; when you haven’t had any sleep for 24 hours the concept of taking a minute to think is distinctly odd. Also dawn came up a while ago which makes it even harder to sleep.
Obviously, what I need to be is n the Southern Hemisphere; the sun comes much later there.
@sparky
goodnight 🙂
@unimaginative
thanks :3 ::blushies::
Wut?
Well, I guess that’s one way to yank a tooth out, get your cat to help.
@Stevie
uh….you could sleep and come back later if taking a minute to think is hard? Because usually tired posting is fine but you kind of dug a hole and probably should come back on less-sleepy head to clarify.
Stevie, you still need to apologize, and if you are too tired to comprehend that, you should leave. Nobody cares why you’re acting like an ass, only that you are.
The full Kimi-in-an-oatmeal-can sequence.
Yeah, but you pay the price in most of Oz, at least, because it gets dark so much later – and that’s made worse by fuckin’ stupid daylight saving.
Well yes Stevie, the sun is coming up very late down here right now. And setting early.
But you can take as many minutes as you need – the point is that you are being both hurtful and illogical and refusing to back down. Go to bed, don’t go to bed; just don’t keep telling us that homeschooling is innately bad/abusive, and DEFINITELY rethink telling someone they deserve to die because they think people should be let into med school based on ability, not where they were educated.
BTW, katz, I’ve gotten Mr C addicted to your blog. He’s using the kittens as brain bleach at work.
katz, Kimi has All the Cute.
I keep thinking of Kimi Raikkonnen when I see zir name now. 😛
Really Kitteh? Right now the sun is rising at 7ish and setting at 5ish. In summer it’s just after 5 and about 9.
Husky and cute kid brain bleach
Thanks Mammotheers. You’re awesome.
No, I’m not looking for a fight. That’s why I said I’d just leave. I’ve had plenty of fights about homeschool and they all go the same way. I’m not interested in another.
Fade,
The same could be said for public and private schools.
I’m sorry you had a bad experience.
We are not active in local homeschool groups, because they are all uber religious and waaaaaaaay to the right in their politics. They are the creationist, Quiverfull, anti-vax, Liberty University, Glenn Beck watching types. (So are some of the non-homeschoolers though. So are some of the school teachers. That’s just where I live.) That’s not a scene I want to be a part of. I’ve heard some unfortunate stories come from young adults who were homeschooled in those situations. It can be bad. There is no denying that. It can be very bad.
When people start talking about homeschooling and their personal opinions and misconceptions about how all kinds of schooling work I often feel like I’m playing wack-a-mole in a Gish Gallop. Sometimes they are informed or they have actually homeschooled, other times they’ve heard about it from their friend’s mom’s roommate. Then it gives me a headache fast.
I personally like my state staying out of my home and have had some bad experiences this year with the DPP repeatedly trying to lie to me about my rights. It was tense, but he eventually left us alone.
I’ve found that most people don’t actually know their state’s laws surrounding schooling and that they often assume that non-home based schools are subject to greater and better forms of scrutiny than they actually are.They also often assume those schools have higher success rates than they do. It’s also often assumed that rules that work for teaching a school full of hundreds of kids = good rules for a home setting with one kid. It’s weird what people assume about how learning works or about how we came to school the way we do. You’d think the 6 hr day at a desk in a brick building way of schooling was handed down from the heavens to hear some people talk.
There are states where it is nearly impossible to home educate your learning disabled child because the state will considered their inability to keep pace to be a failing of the homeschool and force the child back into public school. There, they can fail all they like and no one will blame the school. In other states, you are required to have a degree and teach through a “church school”. As with all things, people find ways around the rules or just stay off the state’s radar. In other states, there are no requirements or even a suggested best practice to follow. I’d rather things work the way they do here. The option to homeschool is written into the constitution of the commonwealth. The state can’t say boo to me, so long as I follow some very basic guidelines. The most important thing I do in their opinion, is say in writing that I can’t blame them for my kids’ education if I fuck it up. That’s a reasonable enough request, I think.
I’m not anti-public or private schooling. I’ve had kids in both. Most of my kids are in public schools now. This is just a better fit at this time, for this child.
Oh, and specific things like percentage of homeschool students who attend medical school are hard to get because we don’t actually have an accurate count of homeschoolers in this country. (Roughly, I think it’s estimated that there are close to 2 million.) I can tell you that universities now often have recruitment days and events specifically for homeschoolers. That seems promising.
Right now, I’m not worried about college. We’re still working on things like basic language and life skills. See, some kids have special needs. No, he’ll probably never go to med school. I hope he’ll be able to do things like live independently and drive. Those are big dreams right now. We’ll do the best we can, but we will also love him everyday for the rest of our lives and do our best for him, no matter what the future holds. Loving your kids or valuing human beings shouldn’t be conditional upon their achievements.
G’night all.
Thanks.
That dog is all “ugh, the fur-less puppies are so annoying”.
@WWTH
wow, that is a very tolerant dog. 😛 tho maybe i’m biased, b/c my achey arthritic fourteen year old norwegian elkhound is very sensitive to where people touch her, and will snap at you if you mess w/ her legs like that (don’t worry, she’s in a household of adults who are familiar w/ giving dogs space, not w/ little kids. So people might get annoyed but no one gets hurt).
but yes that was maximum brain bleach. is anything cuter than kids and dogs?
My friend’s Malamute would let kittens climb all over him (she fostered them). I once saw one dangling from his tail and he was just chilling like nothing was happening. Not sure how he’d have been with kids, but he liked kittens.
Wow. That blowup was…unexpected. Also, I’d like to point out that I can conceive of a whole bunch of ways homeschooling could lead to a *better* education than the normal school system (although maybe I’m biased, my state’s current education system is crap). Not just alternative (i.e. focussed on different subjects, more travelling opportunity, etc.) or better logistically (like say if you lived in the middle of nowhere and couldn’t afford boarding school; or, you know, if you had some kind of illness that meant normal systems wouldn’t work), but actively better.
Also the idea that education=worth as a person is crap.
He has a sibling named Mika 🙂
hrovitnir – Yeah, I was talking about summertime here, which for some reason (brain fart, most likely) I’d thought Stevie meant, rather than being here during winter. It’s similar to your times here at the moment, not that I’m awake at sunup these days. 😛
That husky’s pained expression reminds me of Diefenbaker in Due South.
Eeeee!
cassandrakitty,
We hand raised four teeny kittens last spring (two still live here, though they are less teeny now). My pit bull would lay on the bed and let the kittens try to suckle her. The other dogs wanted to eat them, but she seems devoid of all prey drive. She ended up with hickeys on her nipples. It was adorkable.
Oo, I’m jealous! I’m happy it’s winter here because I hate being hot but leaving in the dark and coming home in the dark is a bit crap.
OMG Lea I wish I could see that. So cute.