I‘ve been so busy with all the shenanigans surrounding AVFM and their little conference that I’m afraid I’ve been neglecting the good old Men’s Rights subreddit. Don’t feel bad, Men’s Rights subreddit, for today I took a few moments out of my hard-core semi-vacationing to pay you a little visit!
While there, I noticed the regulars discussing a terrible quandary that faces all modern men: “As a man, would you help a child in distress?”
Here are some of the answers that got upvoted:
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Yep. Upvotes for a fellow who says he let a three-year-old boy literally fall out of a shopping cart and smash his head open because, oh no, some hypothetical hysterical mother might have accused him of child molestation.
The details of his story make so little sense I can only assume he’s making the story up — if he was walking past the bakery, how could he have been close enough to “reflexively grab” a child in a shopping cart inside the bakery?
I’m not sure which is worse, the thought that this guy actually let a kid fall and smash his head, or the thought that he made up a story about doing so in order to gain some internet points from MRAs. (Well, the former, obviously, but either way this is a mortifying spectacle.)
But not everyone got upvotes. Here’s a comment that got thumbs down from the Men’s Rightsers — along with a heavily upvoted reply:
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Human Rights: You’re doing it wrong.
Thanks to r/AMR for pointing me to this lovely thread.
Speaking of kitties: new video from Cole the black cat!
http://youtu.be/r7-fKwgWsQ8
The problem with cat mouths is that they harbor bacteria that the human body isn’t used to fighting. Which is why something like 50% of cat bites that break the skin will get infected without treatment (which is why I have to do to the effing hospital every time I get bitten by a cat at work).
Enh, I used to think I would never be able to handle being pissed or shat upon. Then I worked at a dairy farm for a short period. Amazing how fast I got used to mountains of shit getting everywhere and all over me!
RE: Argenti
should I whip out my “they’re called condors” gif? 🙂 Seriously though, they do solve that problem!
Condors, eh? Who knew birds were so handy!
I reckon “you’re not doing it unless you’ve got a condor on” would be an interesting line, at least.
You guys are bringing back fond memories of a cat bite, a bright pink swollen hand and a painful, comically huge anti-biotic shot in the buttocks. As the kids say, good times.
re mouths: LBT — yep. For entirely random reasons I’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth that pecunium finds biting to fail the safe test for safe sane and consensual. Cuz mouths are gross.
It’s got nought to with gross, it’s mostly got to do with my not being fond of pain; which just plain puts me out of the mood (blood play is a different set of problems and squicks: but periods don’t kill the mood: again it’s a different issue).
Mouths are a specific sort of “clean” cesspit. The bacteria which inhabit them are, by and large, not going to cause problems… in the mouth.
Move them to a different biota, and all hell breaks loose. One of the things Emergency Rooms look for when there has been an alert put out as the result of someone being beaten is certain types of infections to the hand (or in the case of a person who says the bit someone; hard enough to draw blood, for similar bite wounds). The reason is the combination of saliva, and bacteria, leads to some very specific (and dangerous) sepsis.
But.. so long as one isn’t chomping hard enough to draw blood, it’s not a big deal; unless you are going down on someone who has open lesions (in which case…ew!).
The whole “you piss with that” issue isn’t that big a deal. Urine is, by and large, sterile; enough so that fresh urine has been used to irrigate wounds. Unless you have a kidney, or bladder, infection that’s not really a concern (aged urine is another matter).
So if someone has decent hygiene… have fun.
That said… interpersonal chemistry can be both interesting and disturbing
TMI WARNING Graphic medical details
There was a woman I was seeing, and a couple of days after the first time we had sex I seemed to have a case of the clap. Painful urination, discharge, etc.
Went to the Troop Medical Clinic (I was still on Active Duty), they took a blood sample, swabbed me for clamydia (OMG!!!!! OW… They ram a cotton swab about 2″ up the urethra, then (of course) they pull it out again. The only reason I didn’t pass out is that I was too busy trying not to puke. Only reason I didn’t puke was I was trying not to pass out.
Called her up, told her what was going on. She went to her doctor. Both of us came up clean.
I had a yeast infection.
And, every so often, while she and I were together, I’d get another one. Our actual chemistry didn’t mesh very well.
/TMI WARNING
Crap… tag fail.
But… I was looking at the other comments by the person who did the screenshot of cassandra’s comment and found a diatribe about, “betacide” by him; which cited the “Paternity Tests are outlawed in Australia and France nonsense.
Given that it was Apep who was all upset at what Cassandra said, I wonder if he and whomever that was are the same person.
So, in the “foolish consistency” and all that, observe:
” I don’t hold it open for women because it might validate their egos and make them think that someone wants them.”
This was said by the same dude who explained that all women have to do to “get someone” is be (ok, they need to be sort of slender, or something, but that’s it).
So if that’s all it takes, she knows lots of people want her, and she can have her pick.
It is Bittersteel! Called it.
And Bittersteel is blog herpes. The fact that he so quickly fixated on me and has now escalated to trying to sic Reddit on me just confirms it.
(I told you guys that he once pulled stuff from years back on the blog I haven’t posted on in forever and quoted it to me on Jezebel, and also referred to photos of me from a dating site, right? He’s a creeper.)
Yeast infections can be passed back and forth between partners. Not a fun situation but it happens.
I wasn’t here for blog herpes but I don’t doubt it from how he’s been described.
@cassandra: I don’t remember you saying all that. Fuck creeper, he’s a stalker.
Re yeast infections. I pissed off a male acquaintance once because his partner kept getting yeast infections, which she would treat. I pointed out to her that both parties needed to be treated at the same time, otherwise there was just going to be continual reinfection. He was not happy that thought he was harbouring yeast.
Which reminds me, there is a stationery company in NZ called Candida (http://www.candida.co.nz/). I laugh every time, except when I am about to lick one of their envelopes to seal it.
@ pallygirl
I take it that he wasn’t experiencing any symptoms himself and that’s why he decided that inconveniencing himself by getting treated wasn’t worth doing, no matter how much discomfort his gf was in?
cassandra, fuuuuck, I didn’t know blog herpes had stalked you elsewhere.
Re Candida the company, my favorite name in that vein is a restaurant called Manpuku (they serve ramen). It’s right up there with the attempt to market the Chevy Nova in Central and South America without thinking that a name change might be a good idea.
@cassandra: yes, he wasn’t experiencing symptoms. They were both monogamous, so she couldn’t be infected by anyone else. I realise that C. albicans is normal flora in the vagina and the issues are related to abnormal growth/spread (e.g. see http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Student%20presentations/Calbicans/Calbicans.html and http://www.austincc.edu/microbio/2704z/ca.htm), but being reinfected rapidly post treatment seemed suggestive of partner-to-partner transmission.
He was a manly NZ man(tm).
That seems to be the logic behind some cases where guys just refuse to deal with stuff like that. “Well, vaginas are weird, there are always freaky things growing in there (shrugs). Nothing to do with me.”
Manpuku: man stomach?
The Mitsubishi Pajero is the one that makes me laugh.
You’d think huge multinational companies would hire some sort of localization expert specifically to prevent that kind of fiasco.
The No Go story is a myth.
Snopes has a detailed explanation
Localisation doesn’t completely protect against product name failure either, this springs to mind immediately: http://www.marketingfirst.co.nz/2009/10/evidence-that-the-whole-vegemite-isnack-2-0-fiasco-was-a-genuine-mistake/
If it is Mr. Al, he’s changed his problems. But the rest of the backstory has anecdotes which are straight up BritterSteele (the one about “my feminist dude-friend says women should be able to just pick a name out of the phone book” is also repeated).
Presumably they can’t protect the public from whoever thought it would be a good idea to combine Vegimite with cream cheese either. Ew.
I hate both Vegemite and Marmite, equally. I am an equal opportunity savoury spread hater.
Related question: did you get brought up on meat paste? I used to be fed it as open sandwiches when I was growing up.