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This is a picture of A Voice for Men’s new commemorative coin. No, really, they have a commemorative coin. It was designed by Peter Vinczer, father of A Voice for Men’s Attila Vinczer, possibly — I suspect — with the help of Judy Chicago. The coins cost $58.88, and will be issued in a first edition of 10,000.
In the comments to AVFM’s announcement, six people have proudly announced that they’ve purchased a coin. So get yours quickly, because there are only 9,994 left before the first edition runs out!
The only real question is what exactly is being depicted on the coin:
Is it:
1) An otter in a manhole
2) A man levitating a carrot over a milkshake
3) A vagina
4) A vagina
5) Come on, it’s obviously a vagina
ANSWER: I have no fucking clue. Seriously, I’ve been staring at this for like ten minutes and I have no idea what on earth this could be. What is the round thing? Why is there a tiny hand? If that thing above the circle thing is a raindrop or a teardrop or whatever, why is it upside-down? Why would AVFM issue a goddamn commemorative coin in the first place.
I do know one thing, though: If you can afford to waste $$58.88 on this piece of crap, you are not oppressed in any way. And you should probably have your right to vote stripped from you.
Just kidding about that last bit. You should still be allowed to vote even if you buy vagina coins from a dude named Attila.
I think it does trigger moderation. Adding MOD to my nym sent the first comment into moderation (very meta). But I checked the pending queue when I saw the first complaint, and there was nothing there. I don’t think anyone was online who could have approved it.
That’s amusing. I just took a sticky at the spam queue, and it seems the bots have learned a new word – “fastidious” keeps cropping up.
Also, someone should tell their spambots that necroing threads is an even bigger waste of time than spamming generally.
I reckon it’s a condom with a hole in it and a woman’s hand reaching in to spermjack the condom wearer. The drip in the middle is, of course, liquid gold.
Okay! Now that I looked at it long enough, it’s seriously an upside down eye with a tear and a hand (woman’s hand?) reaching over to wipe it away. If not i can’t imagine what else.
No no, he was fine with me seeing L still. Wasn’t used to not being primary, but had dated poly people before. TMI ALERT!! In part thanks to my trauma history, in part physics, sex didn’t work, so him seeking sex elsewhere was my idea. (And, hilariously, turns out she and i both came up on the other’s OKC matches with silly high match percent and were both intimidated by the other! No fucking CLUE where that’ll lead!))
It was all above board, no assholery involved. Not that men won’t pull that shit, but he didn’t.
As for his reasons for breaking up with me…I only sorta get it myself, but he hasn’t been an ass — when I said ok, I’d leave him alone if he didn’t want to see me anymore, he gave a quick “don’t do that”, I just don’t know where on the scale from serious relationship to just friends he’ll decide he wants to be. Idk if I can do just friends at this point, but yeah, we’re both being very nerd “gah I never do this, how do normal people break up?” about it.
So he’s trying to sort out his feelings as much as anything else? Okay, that’s a relief. Pity it’s all got a bit messy, though. 🙁
Yeah, no assholery involved, just a messy mess. Otoh, L’s got a fancy new job and can afford to get us in the same state again finally, so idk. That was a bit “wait, you’ll pay for me to come to Pittsburgh to visit? WHEN?!?”
Would you want to move back to Pittsburg? Seemed like you liked living there a lot more than where you are now.
Femitheist Divine left a comment? o_O Like we need more TERFs around here…::sigh::
I’m struck by the sheer weirdness of this comment. I mean, assuming the commenters here are all women? Gives away that you haven’t read the blog before, but not the most bizarre assumption that has been made about us. (Out of curiousity, what is the most bizarre assumption someone has made about the WHTM commenters?)
But assuming that the mods do not let through comments not made by a woman? I mean, how would you think we ascertained which comments were by women? We’re feminists, almost by definition (and certainly by the definition of feminism everyone here supports) we don’t think there’s any innate difference between women and men (and I’ll leave it up to more articulate people to discuss the sex & gender binary as a social construct). I don’t think even the most gender-essentialist feminist would argue that you can tell someone’s gender from their comment on a blog. Do you really think that every new commenter must state “hello I am definitely a woman and here is my opinion” before their comment is let through? Really?
And as for “thinking” women, I’m pretty sure you’ll find that the people who don’t believe others can think are known here as “trolls”. Everyone not a troll here believes women (and men, and non-binary people) can think, although sometimes we believe they choose not to, or that their thinking is illogical.
TL;DR Your comment makes exactly no sense and you should probably be concerned about that.
I’m a non-thinking woman. It’s not really me typing right now, it’s just that the cat won’t stop running over the keyboard.
Cassandra — Pittsburgh, with the H, they’re very proud of having kept the h when spelling standardization failed to work. And yes. If I get disability, and moving won’t fuck me over, I’m moving back there.
When you take a westbound train into Pittsburgh, you go through So Much Scenery, and then a tunnel. When you exit the tunnel, there it is, the point, and the city in all her glory. I fell in love the first time I exited that tunnel.
Also, a side note. I know David’s been accused of many things, but I don’t think “female”is one of them. I assume, since you used to subscribe here, that you would be aware that the author is male. That would mean that you would believe David would not be able to comment on his own blog.
I just. I am so confused. Can we keep this one?
David can only comment while wearing his cat disguise. It’s why he doesn’t comment that often – the paws make it a bit of a challenge.
I’m sorry that things are so messy for you, Argenti.
Wouldn’t that be David can only comment when out of his human disguise cassandrakitty? Or is he a bunch of cats in ferret disguises in a human disguise in a cat disguise?
This is why we, his kitten minions, comment for him. It’s just easier all around.
Phew. Sure sounds like it.
Wait, wut? Where was that, Ally? Does she go by the nym Gretchen/dikotome as well?
Oh, geez, there’d have to be a few. Off the top of my head Mikey’s insistence that we’re all SPINSTERS!!!!!1!eleventy! would be a contender.
::snerk:: At least the first one. The trolls like Erin or wossname “watching bras in the laundry” give themselves away pretty quickly, but it usually more than just one comment to do it.
Yes.
(C’mon, did anyone really believe kitties wouldn’t be at the core of this? Ferrets are cute, yes, but it’s kitties all the way down.)
::nods:: Kitten paws are smaller.
@kitteh
See this comment: https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/07/12/who-designed-a-voice-for-mens-new-commemorative-coins-judy-chicago/comment-page-5/#comment-535176
Obviously nothing transmisogynistic in that comment, but the research I’ve done suggests that she is a TERF.
Thanks for the clarification kittehs! And, yeah men claiming to be women tend to give themselves away, but I don’t think anyone would go “yep I am 100% convinced you are not the gender you claim you are”. They’d just go “um your experience sounds pretty unrealistic”.
My favorite hilarious assumption was when Mikey called a commenter who was far as I know is still in high school a spinster.
Oh, gotcha, Ally! I’d missed that one, I was thinking of Gretchen of the Strange Clown Necro Blech stuff. (If you haven’t looked at that, don’t.)
D’you think FD is for real, or out to troll MRAs? I’ve read very little about her.
wewereemergencies – yeah, it tends to be subtler than that! Like “this is setting my trolldar off, anyone else feel that?”
It’s easy to clarify with kitties. It’s always kitties, in all things, furever and ever, a
mencats.cassandra – and he called quite a few married Mammotheers spinsters, too, including dudes, iirc.
I still think he’s in the lead for Troll of the Year. The only others with any staying power have been most likely the blog herpes. Even if they weren’t, I’d never vote for whinerbros trotting out the same old, same old as he did.
At this point I have to hand in my feminist card because I don’t like scented fucking candles. Unless they’re a very light vanilla scent. Otherwise, my hay fever plays up badly.